NaviPlan by Advicent vs. Dynamo Software

NaviPlan is an invaluable financial planning tool. There are so many strategies and reports that can be built and used within the software. I've been using it for around 8 years and still don't how to use all of the functions. It has come a long way over the 8 years in terms of functionality. There is a definite learning curve, however, I've found it has become more user friendly.

Incentivized

Customer Service, Project Managers and our personal contact have been exceptional. Since the software is able to do so much and there are so many options the Dynamo team has been invaluable to us. Our company would not have been able to double in size over the last 4 years if it wasn't for Dynamo Software.

• Employee benefits management, planning, and calculation become simpler with the Navi plan.
• Budget planning, risk management, and other account management become easy and simpler to analyze by the top management.
• Tax calculation and other payments become easy for the organization as well as individual employees.
• Cashflow analysis and modifications in the allocation become easy and could be understood by all the top-level management in a single window.

Incentivized

• Keeps improving the software
• Client management and support
• It is very customizable

• Much favorable for small industries, so better to make it good for large enterprise also.
• Illustration can be made easy so that quick understanding can be done.
• Tracking of the particular item is a bit difficult, this could be made easier.
• Not much user friendly compared to the competitors. But does the job well.

Incentivized

• I think the software is so robust it can be difficult to use. I often get intimidated to make changes within our platform because I don't want to mess anything up.
• I also feel like once you finish your "training" that it would be nice to have an account manager that can help you when you need it, rather than someone who is in the sales department or contacting the support team. It can be frustrating to have to re-explain your company and how you do things every time you are needing help or want to make changes to your platform that you don't know how to do.

There are many things our team enjoys with Dynamo Software. We are trying to think of more ways to use the software to the fullest utilization. The issues we have is just some communication and some of the learning curve. Overall a very good product with lots of ways to have it fit the brand.

Snap Projections - We were using this software up until this year alongside Naviplan to see how it compared. The reason we tried Snap Projections was the difference in pricing. Naviplan is expensive, where Snap is only a fraction of the cost. The biggest reason we stayed with Naviplan was familiarity for the advisor presenting. He was accustomed to it. I find the interface of Naviplan better cosmetically. They both are great financial planning software tools with pros and cons in each. I have found that you can manipulate the software to show most of what you need. Both platforms continually update and take user feedback into consideration when building on to it so they both get better all the time

Incentivized

Dynamo Software was able to offer us a CRM, Investor Portal, Accounting Software and Fund Administration solution that we couldn't find anywhere else that would allow us to easily import and export data in Excel. Other vendors practically owned our data or there was additional cost to get data exported. We had a really bad experience with a previous provider so we took a very long time (almost 2.5 years ) to diligence all of the other options we could find and we are extremely happy we decided to go with Dynamo Software.

• Tax calculation of the organization and employees was very difficult, and Navi Plan made is very easy now.
• The introduction of the software makes positive changes in the organization in managing the financial needs, which helps the organization to allocate what is required.
• Employee benefit calculation was a bit difficult and it made a big positive impact.
• It does the job and we get the best for what we pay for.
• If the industry becomes big, then slight changes must be introduced to manage the big data needs.

Incentivized

• It allows us to offer a more sophisticated accounting application and investor portal in our suite of technology.