Adaptive Insights vs BlackLine

• Adaptive handles the concept of "versions" very well. This makes budgeting, forecasting, and scenario planning particularly easy. You can compare actuals vs budget, vs budget @ different rate, vs forecast or vs prior year all at the quick click of a button.
• Multi-user, multi-location, multi-currency handled with ease within the system.
• Adding or removing GL codes, levels or dimensions is really easy and is updated across the entire model.
• The reporting writing part of the solution is excellent. Once the data is in, you can report any parameter against any other.

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• Task Management is straightforward. Ownership, review, and approval are straightforward and pretty easy to configure and follow.
• Account Reconciliation works similarly. Supporting documents can be attached to a given rec to ease the audit. If balances change after approved, the approval is peeled back.
• Integration with our financial system works seamlessly. Configured to run every 4 hours each day, it's helpful to know even when balances change, BlackLine is up-to-date.

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• Adaptive frequently releases software updates. I would like to see the company offer improved training on new features. Even though Adaptive holds a webinar following each release, it's very fast-paced and high-level and I don't learn much about the new functionality. It would be helpful if Adaptive could hold several webinars when rolling out updates, with each one focusing on just one of their products so that they could do a deeper dive on the enhancements.
• While I very much enjoy the reporting enhancements offered with OfficeConnect, it's very easy for your spreadsheet to go sideways, meaning your rows suddenly become misaligned and the report becomes unusable. When this happens, it would be nice if the 'undo' option actually worked, but it generally doesn't. More often than not, it's faster to re-create a report from scratch rather than to try to repair a broken spreadsheet.
• When working in Excel OfficeConnect, it's very frustrating to only have one spreadsheet open at a time. This isn't how most users utilize Excel. I would like the ability to work on multiple files simultaneously.

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• Flexibility to upgrade custom modules without having to resort to technical support
• Familiarity by the Technical Support team with the customer's configurations so that cases are resolved more timely
• More regional meetings for users to exchange experiences

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• Streamlined financial reporting is the obvious one but also we are happy with the products ability to keep up with our use. We are growing rapidly and adding business units and we are able to easily add to our org structure and not be slowed down by arduous remapping of Excel files, and the maintenance that goes along with it.
• KPIs and dashboarding. This has always been high priority at my company but it was always Excel based. Now we use Adaptive and the metrics are more readily available and the ability to display them in dashboards will continue to evolve.
• Long term financial modeling and improved modelling of HC and attrition. We are now able to sit down with functional leaders and determine the impact of attrition during a short meeting, something that used to take for longer.
• Multi Version instance that allows for what-if-scenario's. We are also able to create groups, which in turn are given access to specific versions, so we can plan for attrition or we can plan for acquisitions and not be concerned with the security and also not be concerned with modifying or changing a forecast by accident.

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• Standardization of account reconciliation process across large organization (training, remotely managed, audit accessibility, etc.)
• Small system administration team
• Upgrades being automatically added to the current tool

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