Workday Adaptive Planning continues to evolve toward a more streamlined user experience, and one of the most notable additions in the 2026 R1 release is Adaptive Planning Hubs. Hubs provide a new way for organizations to organize the planning experience around the needs of each user.
Hubs act as personalized, central workspaces within Adaptive Planning. Rather than asking planners, analysts, and managers to move between separate dashboards, sheets, reports, links, and workflow activities, Hubs bring those elements together in one location. The result is a more intuitive planning environment that helps users focus on the tasks and information most relevant to their role.
Adaptive Planning Hubs are designed to serve as a user’s main destination inside the platform. Administrators can create customized hubs that align to a department, process, or user group. For example, an organization might create a Finance Hub, Sales Hub, or a hub centered on a specific planning cycle such as budgeting or forecasting.
Each hub can include several components that shape the user experience:
This structure gives administrators flexibility to create workspaces that reflect how their teams actually work. Instead of navigating through menus to find the right report or sheet, users can open a hub that has already been arranged around their responsibilities.
The biggest benefit of Hubs is that they create a single, unified workspace. In many planning environments, users lose time switching between sections of the application to find data, complete workflow steps, or review performance metrics. Hubs reduce that friction by centralizing content and tasks.
This has several practical advantages:
For organizations with multiple teams involved in planning, this can be especially valuable. Finance users may need immediate access to assumptions sheets, variance reports, and approval workflows, while sales leaders may need dashboards, pipeline reports, and related data loads. Hubs allow each audience to have a workspace tailored to those needs.
A key strength of Hubs is the balance between administrator control and user personalization.
Users can designate a specific hub as their own home or landing page, allowing them to begin each session in the workspace most relevant to them. Administrators can also assign a particular hub as a user’s homepage when creating new users or updating existing ones. This provides a practical way to standardize the user experience while still supporting role-specific needs.
From an administrative perspective, this opens the door to more thoughtful design. Instead of giving all users the same navigation path, administrators can create targeted hubs that support distinct planning processes and organizational functions.
As with any feature that centralizes content, security is an important consideration. Adaptive Planning Hubs respect the platform’s existing access rules and permissions. Even when a hub is shared broadly, users can only view the data they are already authorized to access.
There are several important guardrails built into the feature:
These controls are significant because they allow organizations to simplify navigation without weakening governance. Hubs may improve visibility and ease of use, but they do not override the underlying security model.
For many organizations, the release of Hubs will be meaningful not because it adds a single new report or sheet type, but because it improves how users interact with the platform as a whole.
Key business benefits include:
Hubs can help organizations reduce complexity inside Adaptive Planning. By presenting the right content in the right context, they can make planning activities more efficient and easier to manage.
For Finance leaders looking to improve the budgeting and forecasting experience, Adaptive Planning Hubs offer a practical way to simplify navigation, support process discipline, and give teams faster access to what matters most.
Current Adaptive customers all have the functionality of adaptive planning hubs, but you must activate it in your permission sets.
For those interested in exploring these features in greater detail, you can reach out to RKL for more information. Additional information on the updates and enhancements included in the Adaptive R1 2026 release can be found here.