Planful is a cloud-based enterprise performance management (EPM) suite. It includes financial applications for modeling, planning, consolidation, reporting and analytics.
Planful seems to have the best price to performance option against the tools listed. Some of the more premium options on the market have outdated UIs and dont get updated as frequently and other in the same price category dont seem to have the same level of options and "ease" …
Planful is winning in user experience. More intuitive design and very user friendly. I do expect more flexibility in terms of system confirgurations like higher hierarchy limit
Very well, the Hyperion module we were using was rather old, but the reporting capabilities of Planful were far ahead of anything in that version of Hyperion. Spotlight would be the one tool that would lag behind Hyperion as the excel report building in Hyperion was very easy …
Planful was a more cost effective approach vs our previous platform (Adaptive) and is able to be managed fully within the FP&A team (no IT resources or outside consultants post-implementation)
Sr. Financial Analyst/ Planful System Administrator
Chose Planful
We felt the platform was more user-friendly and had better functionality for our purposes. Since we already had Planful instance within our company, we already had in-house expertise on the Planful system, which gave us some consistency in tools.
Planful seems to do a better job of pulling things in a format that is more understandable to an accounting-minded person, whereas the other platforms seem more focused on operations. From a detail perspective, Planful provides more powerful and complete data, in my experience. …
We have only used custom-built Excel interfaces for our financials and workforce planning in the past. As stated earlier in my review, Planful has grouped all of this into a fantastic program that is easy to use, easily manipulated to match our needs and we have been very happy …
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Employee
Chose Planful
Ease of use, integrations, price, and excel compatibility were the driving factors behind getting off of Adaptive and selecting Planful over these other competitors
I wasn't here when we transitioned to Planful, but I would imagine the reason, based off of what I've heard in the past, is because of how dynamic and interactive it is across multiple sheets at the same time. I can't imagine trying to link a bunch of Excel sheets together - …
Planful is nice for the reporting option. SAP Concur doesn't so much have an option where you can see physical reports. You can easily report on the tool and send reimbursement requests and such, but you have to use multiple tools if you use Concur and want to see any sort of …
They all have pretty similar functionality, I liked Planful because it was all cloud-based and we didn't have to buy a bunch of hardware. Spotlight dynamic planning I felt was the most versatile available at the time, not sure if it still is, and I liked the idea of building …
Not sure if this was specific to our specific BPC configuration, but here are a few major issues we had with that system that have since been resolved switching to Planful (formerly Host Analytics): It was painfully slow to load new data into the system (3+ hours for new GL …
Against other financial planning software systems, Planful allows the greatest financial visibility. While the same data may be housed in other financial planning software systems the functionality of the Planful reporting module and dashboard modules makes visualizing, …
Planful is the first FP&A specific software I have used. However, the dashboard module can be compared to PowerBI as I use both - with regard to dashboards, PowerBI offers much more control and customization not only with data manipulation, but also with visualizations and …
We use Sage Intacct for our Accounting ERP but found that their budgeting and reporting tool would not grow with our company. We had to find something that could accommodate large growth and be able to pull in data from different systems to get the right answer. We weren't able …