What: Adaptive Planning Express Edition

Delivery Model: Open Source - Adaptive Planning Express Edition is available for free under the GPL open source license and can be accessed on-demand or downloaded and installed on-premise.

The open source model gives customers:

• The open source community improves the solution in multiple ways, contributing to quality assurance and defining a product roadmap that meets the community's requirements. In addition, the availability of source code allows companies to more easily customize solutions to their specific needs, and enables partners and other community members to extend the solution by developing new templates, adapters, and other modules.
• The community delivers support beyond that provided by Adaptive Planning, via forums that allow users and partners to share recommendations and "how to" information. And, as with all open source projects, the availability of source code ensures that companies are not "locked-in" to a vendor over the long term.
• Unique among BPM solutions, Adaptive Planning's community-driven approach allows companies to harness the collective intelligence of end-users -- both inside and outside a company. Inside a company, the solution enables all business users to easily access, modify, and share information to improve business decisions. In addition, users can tap into the broader community outside the company, obtaining third-party information and assumptions, discussing financial modeling and budgeting best practices, and gaining insights into how their company's KPIs and metrics compare with industry averages.