From 12,000 Hours to One Click: Incorta's Workday Integration Eliminates Finance Teams' Biggest Time Drain

The Million-Dollar Click Finally Gets a Solution

Finance professionals know the drill all too well. A variance appears in Workday Adaptive Planning—say, $120,000 spent instead of the planned $100,000. What follows is a familiar dance of frustration: exiting the planning system, hunting through general ledger balances, downloading AP registers to Excel, building complex spreadsheets, and spending hours validating that numbers actually tie together across systems.

This process, historically so expensive to solve that the industry dubbed it "The Million-Dollar Click," just got dramatically simpler.

Real-Time Drill-Through: From Variance to Root Cause in One Click

Incorta's new drill-through capability for Workday Adaptive Planning, featured during the "Cloud Data Connector and Optimizing Your Data Foundation to Enhance Insights" session, enables finance teams to right-click on any number and instantly access the complete transaction story behind it—journal entries, sub-ledger details, and ERP context—without leaving their workflow.

"For finance teams, drill-through solves the age-old challenge of getting from a variance to its root cause—fast," said Joe Cooper, VP of Alliances at Incorta. "Instead of pulling reports, chasing down extracts, or stitching together Excel models, you get immediate access to the full story behind the number."

The Scale of the Problem

The impact extends far beyond individual analyst productivity. Consider that companies like Tyson Foods maintain over 18,000 reports requiring 12,000 person-hours monthly just for data maintenance and root cause analysis. Even eliminating half this burden represents 60,000 hours annually—equivalent to 50 full-time employees.

For smaller organizations using Adaptive Planning, the typical monthly reconciliation burden ranges from 500 to over 12,000 hours, with teams spending more time as "data jockeys" than strategic business partners.

Beyond Basic Drill-Through

What sets this integration apart is its depth. While Workday's initial drill-through implementation was limited to basic GL-to-journal-line queries, Incorta's comprehensive data foundation enables drill-through to operational root causes across multiple systems:

• Complete journal entries with both debits and credits
• Sub-ledger details including purchase orders and invoices
• Operational context like labor hour variances from Kronos systems
• Currency impact analysis from international ERPs
• Cross-system integration spanning multiple bank accounts and general ledgers

The Confidence Factor

Perhaps most critically, the solution addresses something unmeasurable in traditional ROI calculations: executive confidence. As our own Incorta CFO, Rob Dillon noted, "It gives a level of comfort to the CFO—you're not lying awake at night wondering if your numbers have total fidelity."

This confidence cascades through the organization: controllers complete month-end closes with greater certainty, analysts focus on analysis rather than data hunting, and auditors receive complete, traceable information faster.

Built on Partnership

The drill-through capability builds on Incorta's designated Workday Innovation Partnership announced in March 2025, with solutions available through Workday Marketplace for easy customer deployment.

Learn more about our partnership with Workday, or visit Incorta’s page on Workday Marketplace.

The Path Forward

The technology represents a fundamental shift from reactive data validation to proactive business analysis. Finance teams can finally redirect thousands of monthly hours from manual reconciliation to strategic activities that drive business value.

For organizations currently managing complex data landscapes under tight reporting deadlines, the question isn't whether they need this capability—it's how quickly they can implement it.
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Learn more about Incorta's drill-through capabilities for Workday Adaptive Planning at www.incorta.com.