Workday Recognized as a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software for Fourth Year in a Row

Rhea-AI Summary

Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY) was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software for the fourth consecutive year on Dec. 4, 2025. Workday highlights its Adaptive Planning platform and AI capabilities that aim to help FP&A teams run scenarios, improve collaboration across ERP/CRM/HR systems, and accelerate decision making.

Key product claim: Workday's Planning Agent can reduce data exploration and analysis by 30%. Gartner Peer Insights customer quotes cited time savings, usability, automation, and integration as user benefits.

Positive

• Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning (fourth year)
• Planning Agent claim: 30% reduction in data exploration and analysis
• Gartner Peer Insights: multiple verified customer reviews citing time savings and automation

Negative

• None.

News Market Reaction

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+0.68% News Effect

On the day this news was published, WDAY gained 0.68%, reflecting a mild positive market reaction.

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Key Figures

Gartner leadership streak: 4 years Planning Agent impact: 30% Customer review date: December 2, 2025 +1 more

4 metrics

Gartner leadership streak 4 years Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software

Planning Agent impact 30% Claimed reduction in data exploration and analysis effort

Customer review date December 2, 2025 As-of date for Gartner Peer Insights review snapshot

Implementation period 6 years One customer’s duration using Workday Adaptive Planning

Market Reality Check

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Technical Shares at $224.04 sit 23.8% below the $294 52-week high and trade below the $236.96 200-day MA, only 9.11% above the 52-week low.

Peers on Argus

WDAY gained 0.22% with mixed but generally positive peer moves: ROP +0.75%, ADSK...

WDAY gained 0.22% with mixed but generally positive peer moves: ROP +0.75%, ADSK +0.33%, PAYX +1.47%, SNOW +2.56%, while DDOG slipped 0.14%. No peers appeared in momentum scans and no same-day peer headlines were flagged, suggesting this recognition was primarily company-specific.

Historical Context

5 past events · Latest: Dec 04 (Positive)

Pattern 5 events

Date	Event	Sentiment	Move	Catalyst
Dec 04	Industry recognition	Positive	+0.7%	Named a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for financial planning.
Dec 04	Conference appearance	Positive	+0.7%	President scheduled to present at Barclays Global Technology Conference.
Nov 25	Quarterly earnings	Positive	+3.1%	Fiscal 2026 Q3 revenue and margins grew with raised subscription guidance.
Nov 19	Acquisition deal	Positive	-0.8%	Agreement to acquire Pipedream to expand integration and AI workflow reach.
Nov 19	Product expansion	Positive	-0.8%	Expanded Workday GO with Global Payroll and AI-powered Deployment Agent.

Pattern Detected

WDAY has shown positive alignment on recognition, conference, and earnings news, while product expansion and acquisition headlines saw modest negative reactions.

Recent Company History

Over the last few weeks, Workday reported strong fiscal 2026 Q3 results with total revenue of $2.432 billion and updated full-year subscription revenue guidance to $8.828 billion. It signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pipedream and expanded Workday GO with AI-powered deployment capabilities. Against this backdrop, repeated recognition in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant reinforces its positioning in financial planning software, complementing earlier operational and product updates.

Market Pulse Summary

This announcement underscores Workday’s continued positioning in financial planning software, being ...

Analysis

This announcement underscores Workday’s continued positioning in financial planning software, being named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for the fourth consecutive year and highlighting AI‑driven capabilities such as Planning Agent, which targets a 30% reduction in data exploration and analysis. In context of recent double‑digit revenue growth and product expansion initiatives, investors may monitor how sustained industry recognition, customer feedback, and further AI enhancements contribute to the company’s competitive standing.

Key Terms

financial planning and analysis (FP&A), predictive analytics, erp, crm, +2 more

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financial planning and analysis (FP&A) financial

"Workday helps financial planning and analysis (FP&A) teams anticipate change..."

Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) involves examining and forecasting a company's financial performance to help guide decision-making. It’s like creating a detailed map that shows where a business is heading financially, enabling investors to understand its stability and growth potential. This process helps organizations allocate resources effectively and plan for future success.

predictive analytics technical

"Use predictive analytics to stay ahead of market trends..."

Predictive analytics uses historical data and patterns to estimate future outcomes, like sales, customer behavior, or operational problems. For investors it matters because it turns past signals into probable forecasts—similar to a weather forecast or traffic app—helping assess potential risks, spot opportunities, and prioritize where to allocate capital, while remembering that predictions carry uncertainty and are not guarantees.

erp technical

"integrating financial and operational data across ERP, CRM, marketing and HR systems..."

ERP, or Enterprise Resource Planning, is a comprehensive software system that helps organizations manage and integrate core business processes such as finance, supply chain, and human resources in one unified platform. For investors, ERP systems can indicate how efficiently a company operates; strong and well-integrated systems often suggest good management and potential for sustainable growth.

crm technical

"integrating financial and operational data across ERP, CRM, marketing and HR systems..."

Customer relationship management (CRM) is the set of tools, practices and software companies use to track and manage interactions with customers and potential customers, like an organized digital address book combined with a sales coach. It matters to investors because effective CRM systems can boost sales, improve customer retention and lower marketing costs, which directly affects revenue growth and profit margins — key drivers of a company’s value.

Gartner Magic Quadrant technical

"named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software..."

The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a visual tool that shows how different technology companies or products compare in terms of their ability to execute and their completeness of vision. It helps investors and decision-makers quickly identify which companies are leading, challenging, or emerging in a particular market, making it easier to evaluate potential opportunities or risks.

Gartner Peer Insights technical

"Gartner Peer Insights documents customer experience through verified ratings..."

Gartner Peer Insights is an online review platform where verified IT professionals and business users rate and write about enterprise software and services, creating a crowd-sourced view of vendor performance and customer satisfaction. Investors watch these ratings because they act like word-of-mouth for large buyers: strong, consistent reviews can signal growing sales momentum and lower customer churn, while poor feedback may warn of lost deals or reputation risk.

AI-generated analysis. Not financial advice.

PLEASANTON, Calif., Dec. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software¹ for the fourth consecutive year. A complimentary copy of the report is available here.

Workday helps financial planning and analysis (FP&A) teams anticipate change, analyze multiple scenarios on the fly, and improve cross-functional collaboration to navigate uncertainty and provide strategic insights. Leading organizations including Blackberry Limited, Boston Scientific Corporation, Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, Spotify USA Inc., and more trust Workday Adaptive Planning to deliver agile plans and financial forecasts that drive deeper insights and faster decisions.

"Today's finance teams need a smarter, faster way to plan, one that puts them in the driver's seat. With AI at the core, Workday empowers finance to truly own their planning process, allowing them to make quick changes and adapt with ease, without relying on IT or consultants," said Ben Pierce, general manager, Adaptive Planning, Workday. "We believe this recognition reflects what we hear from customers every day: the future of planning is AI-enabled, owned by the business, and designed for simplicity and immediate results."

Workday delivers the modern, intuitive financial planning tools that help organizations thrive. With Workday, organizations can:

• Quickly adapt plans and forecasts as business conditions change to make planning and analysis more accurate and efficient.
• Use predictive analytics to stay ahead of market trends with Workday's growing portfolio of agentic AI solutions – including Planning Agent, which can help organizations reduce data exploration and analysis by 30%.
• Improve collaboration and alignment across departments and regions, integrating financial and operational data across ERP, CRM, marketing and HR systems, and data warehouses to support consistent, accurate financial and operational processes. 

Gartner Peer Insights documents customer experience through verified ratings and peer reviews. As of December 2, 2025, Workday reviews include the following:

• "Workday Adaptive Planning has solved our budget process needs seamlessly. Since we implemented it over 6 years ago, we have gained back several hours per month on process steps, while enabling our analysts to spend more time on value-add." – VP of Finance in the manufacturing industry [read full review]
• "We are extremely happy with all aspects of Adaptive Planning, including the user-friendly and easy to navigate interface, the expert implementation consultants, the ease of ongoing maintenance as well as the readily available post-implementation resources and support." – Director of Financial Planning and Analysis in the transportation industry [read full review]
• "I feel like anything I have needed to do to improve my company's corporate financial model has been achievable directly because of Workday Adaptive Planning. The automation and scalable features, the ability to have custom integrations, and the speed at which any support tickets are resolved are all second to none." –  Finance Manager in the software industry [read full review]

For More Information

• Download a complimentary copy of the report, 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software.
• Read the blog, Four for Four: Workday Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning for the Fourth Year in a Row.
• Learn why Workday was recognized as a Customers' Choice in the 2025 Gartner® Voice of the Customer for Financial Planning Software earlier this year.

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About Workday
Workday is the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. Workday unifies HR and Finance on one intelligent platform with AI at the core to empower people at every level with the clarity, confidence, and insights they need to adapt quickly, make better decisions, and deliver outcomes that matter. Workday is used by more than 11,000 organizations around the world and across industries – from medium-sized businesses to more than 65% of the Fortune 500. For more information about Workday, visit workday.com.

© 2025 Workday, Inc. All rights reserved. Workday and the Workday logo are trademarks of Workday, Inc. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements including, among other things, statements regarding Workday's plans, beliefs, and expectations. These forward-looking statements are based only on currently available information and our current beliefs, expectations, and assumptions. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of our control. If the risks materialize, assumptions prove incorrect, or we experience unexpected changes in circumstances, actual results could differ materially from the results implied by these forward-looking statements, and therefore you should not rely on any forward-looking statements. Risks include, but are not limited to, risks described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including our most recent report on Form 10-Q or Form 10-K and other reports that we have filed and will file with the SEC from time to time, which could cause actual results to vary from expectations. Workday assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release, except as required by law.

Any unreleased services, features, or functions referenced in this document, our website, or other press releases or public statements that are not currently available are subject to change at Workday's discretion and may not be delivered as planned or at all. Customers who purchase Workday services should make their purchase decisions based upon services, features, and functions that are currently available.

¹ Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software, Regina Crowder, Sid Sahoo, Mike Lashinsky, 2 December 2025

 

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FAQ

What did Workday (WDAY) announce on Dec. 4, 2025 about Gartner recognition?

Workday said it was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software for the fourth straight year.

How much efficiency improvement does Workday claim its Planning Agent delivers for FP&A?

Workday cites its Planning Agent can help reduce data exploration and analysis by 30%.

Which Workday product did customers praise on Gartner Peer Insights as of Dec. 2, 2025?

Customers praised Workday Adaptive Planning for usability, automation, integrations, and time savings.

Does Workday integrate financial planning with ERP, CRM, and HR data for forecasts?

Yes; Workday says Adaptive Planning integrates financial and operational data across ERP, CRM, marketing, and HR systems to support consistent forecasts.

What investor-relevant impact does the Gartner Leader recognition imply for WDAY?

The recognition signals continued market validation for Workday's financial planning platform and AI capabilities, which may support customer retention and sales efforts.