Avalara vs. Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Avalara
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Avalara AvaTax connects to the software that businesses already have and delivers sales tax decisions based on precise geo-location in more than 12,000 taxing jurisdictions in the U.S.N/A
Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Tagetik is a corporate performance management solution that unifies budgeting, financial planning, consolidation and management reporting. Tagetik is offered as SaaS, on a private cloud, or on-premise, and can migrate between deployments as needed.N/A
Pricing
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Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Top Pros
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Features
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Type of tax
Comparison of Type of tax features of Product A and Product B
Avalara
7.8
339 Ratings
2% below category average
Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
-
Ratings
Sales and Use Taxes8.8332 Ratings00 Ratings
Cross-border Taxes7.571 Ratings00 Ratings
VAT / GST Taxes6.960 Ratings00 Ratings
Energy and Fuel Taxes8.026 Ratings00 Ratings
Tax Reporting & Compliance
Comparison of Tax Reporting & Compliance features of Product A and Product B
Avalara
8.3
317 Ratings
6% above category average
Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
-
Ratings
Geolocation for Tax Assessment8.6191 Ratings00 Ratings
3rd-Party Software Integrations8.1253 Ratings00 Ratings
Tax Data Reporting8.4283 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance Administration Management8.6216 Ratings00 Ratings
Tax Exemption Processing8.5229 Ratings00 Ratings
Tax Document Management8.1219 Ratings00 Ratings
Complex Tax Scenario Management7.6151 Ratings00 Ratings
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Avalara
-
Ratings
Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
8.2
10 Ratings
6% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.68 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.19 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Avalara
-
Ratings
Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
7.6
22 Ratings
7% below category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings7.522 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.722 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings7.57 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.714 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Avalara
-
Ratings
Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
8.1
14 Ratings
1% below category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.29 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.112 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings7.812 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.410 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Avalara
-
Ratings
Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
8.5
8 Ratings
12% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Avalara
-
Ratings
Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
8.7
21 Ratings
0% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.021 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.820 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.721 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.315 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Avalara
-
Ratings
Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
6.3
9 Ratings
22% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings5.28 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.56 Ratings
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Product A and Product B
Avalara
-
Ratings
Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
8.4
48 Ratings
1% above category average
Long-term financial planning00 Ratings8.234 Ratings
Financial budgeting00 Ratings8.242 Ratings
Forecasting00 Ratings8.539 Ratings
Scenario modeling00 Ratings8.133 Ratings
Management reporting00 Ratings8.845 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
Avalara
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Ratings
Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
8.5
44 Ratings
7% above category average
Financial data consolidation00 Ratings8.638 Ratings
Journal entries and reports00 Ratings8.436 Ratings
Multi-currency management00 Ratings8.933 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations00 Ratings8.836 Ratings
Minority Ownership00 Ratings7.329 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting00 Ratings9.242 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails00 Ratings8.134 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Product A and Product B
Avalara
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Ratings
Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
8.5
48 Ratings
5% above category average
Financial Statement Reporting00 Ratings9.040 Ratings
Management Reporting00 Ratings8.946 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting00 Ratings8.048 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting00 Ratings8.333 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing00 Ratings8.118 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Avalara
-
Ratings
Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
8.2
31 Ratings
2% above category average
Personalized dashboards00 Ratings8.426 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards00 Ratings7.920 Ratings
KPIs00 Ratings8.524 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis00 Ratings8.322 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting00 Ratings8.022 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
Integration
Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
Avalara
-
Ratings
Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
8.7
45 Ratings
4% above category average
Flat file integration00 Ratings8.639 Ratings
Excel data integration00 Ratings9.243 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources00 Ratings8.430 Ratings
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User Ratings
AvalaraWolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(451 ratings)
8.5
(49 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(30 ratings)
8.3
(10 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(443 ratings)
8.0
(15 ratings)
Availability
8.0
(9 ratings)
7.3
(2 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(9 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
5.4
(21 ratings)
10.0
(5 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.0
(2 ratings)
6.4
(2 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(4 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(198 ratings)
6.4
(2 ratings)
Configurability
9.0
(6 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
(12 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(8 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
5.5
(9 ratings)
7.3
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.0
(9 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Avalara
Avalara is well suited any retailer that has sales in multiple states. It aides in accurately calculating sales taxes at all jurisdiction levels, taking into account exemptions, lower tax rates for grocery items, and sales tax holidays. Avalara keeps track of all sales generated in a specific period and then files sales tax returns in the necessary states. It may not be well suited for manufacturers/wholesalers that only produce goods for resale or retailers that do not sell goods and services in more than one location
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Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
Scenarios where CCH Tagetik is suitable is when a company have large amounts of data and want to transform, consolidate, store and produce reporting in different year, period etc with complex calculations and allocation. Tagetik is the tool for you in this case and it's very flexible in terms of creating your own business rule, calculation and reporting options with a user friendly interface. I have not thought about scenarios where it is not appropriate to use tagetik yet as the tool covers small and large business financial needs
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Pros
Avalara
  • Sales tax rates at a "roof top" level
  • Has extensive research and documentation on telecommunications industry
  • Research is always up to date
  • The ability to ask questions and get clarification on specific situations with no limit as to how you ask a question and often get the answer the same day
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Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
  • Processes are clearly described in CCH Tagetik ; users can easily find where they are and which action they have to make
  • Interaction with Excel is really fluid ; the Excel add-in is easy to deploy and to updgrade, in the hand of users. It is reliable provided the internet connection is fast.
  • Managing hierachies is obvious in CCH Tagetik. Hierarchies are fundamental for a good reporting ; CCH Tagetik has obviously a deep experience of this feature.
  • SaaS : our experience with CCH Tagetik is of only 1 year, but it technically performs well, the system is reponsive, no shut-down, and updates (every quarter) do not disturb production.
  • AIH seems to be able to manage very large quantity of data, and to provide advanced analysis functionalities. We did not have time to explore them.
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Cons
Avalara
  • Avalara needs to be able to provide tax and legal advice, so we don't have to go to an outside source.
  • Some states we file in have more than just sales tax on the return. For example, Washington has B&O tax, tire tax, sales and use tax. It would help a lot if Avalara could report all of these taxes, so we don't have to file manually.
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Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
  • Online help and manual is a bonus but could be improved e.g. the clarity of English explanations.
  • Improved Excel compatibility e.g. formula driven reporting and dash boarding.
  • Mobile phone connectivity e.g. launching a consolidation from a Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik app.
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Likelihood to Renew
Avalara
We need their help with filing and keeping track of things. It is very likely we are in the process of renewing right now. Autumn is our case manager and she has been a great help in keeping us updated on our usage and renewal. I feel we will be using this for a very long time.
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Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
Because in my oppinion Wolters Kluwer CCH Tagetik is one of the most usable tools for consolidation, planning (controlling) and reporting. Its usability is quite easy and innovative. I like the data entry method for the customers with its workflow and tasks, quite easy way to implement a co pilot. And i like the reporting tool, with a lot of customization opportunities.
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Usability
Avalara
The overall usability has been good, but we just have some problems/issues with the integration, especially with NetSuite. I believe that this should be a simple fix but having difficulty with getting our problems/issues addressed. I do like the Avalara homepage and it being easy to navigate to different pages when needed.
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Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
Surprisingly, this platform is a powerhouse ERP system. However, given time, when more and more organization is able to identify how powerful this tool can be, CCH Tagetik is able to stand as a competitive advantage to many of the Financial industry of today. Although, it needs time to understand the logic behind how CCH Tagetik is formed and setup, once it is known to the user, it is an easy day to day operations with minimal maintenance.
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Reliability and Availability
Avalara
I have been using Avalara for years and do not remember ever having an outage during working hours. The service is accurate and dependable.
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Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
CCH Tagetik has alwyas been there in case we need help. In almost 20 years of commercial relationship, I have no evidence of times in which they were not available to answer a question or to solve an issue linked to their products, timely and efficiently.
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Performance
Avalara
We do have trouble tying Avalara's reporting back to our POS, but we just got a new POS system and there are bugs we are still trying to work out within the POS system. I do not believe this is an Avalara issue
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Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
As you can see, speed depends on the applications but also on the hardware that runs them. As far as CCH Tagetik improved, we saw the benefit of a cloud-based solution which could solve many speed performance issues.
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Support Rating
Avalara
In my experience, numerous questions, and particularly those regarding billing issues are just ignored, and it is impossible to get to someone to discuss. Your account manager will tell you they are taking care of it and then it just goes into a black hole.
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Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
I got very quick respons. After very little mail iterations, they decided to have online meeting to look together with me to the issue. They tried to solve it during the meeting. I had the impression that the customer care person really knew the system and was able to ask help from other colleagues when needed
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In-Person Training
Avalara
I wasn't here when they first started with Avalara.
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Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
the training was not bad, but we got more training from working with the consultants. This because it is based on our system
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Online Training
Avalara
The documentation online we informative and helpful. The videos from the Avalara institute and the help tab if we have any questions and the search too were helpful. We like the ease of using the click here for more information tool about nexus and the information for the ECM Pro training were helpful. Whenever we have a question we normally get an email along with the tool as to where to find our answer. We also like that it shows information about nexus status of the states we maybe approaching and we can look more into it.
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Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
Online training is the only form of training we could deploy during the pandemic. This service has been nonethless delivered with the same standards and the same results of the traditional training procedures.
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Implementation Rating
Avalara
The implementation team from Avalara was very knowledgable and did a good job of passing along information so that we could maintain the system and be able to make future changes ourselves. We had asked for some custom tax setup and they worked with us to get additional taxes set up that they didn't previously have. They worked with us to pull our documentation on tax rules and make sure those were included. I had hoped more scenarios would be there out of the box to cut down on the configuration time.
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Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
we did it in a coaching model. This allowed us to have 2 key advantages: we got to know the system very well and managed to save on the implementation cost. This worked well, was maybe a bit slower since we had to do this in our spare time. Nevertheless I strongly recommand
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Alternatives Considered
Avalara
We selected Avalara because our prior service did not have the range of tax codes required for our products. They had nothing related to medical devices or supplies, so we used a generic 'taxable' tax code. Customers were unhappy because some states exempted the product we sold, even if the customer was not tax-exempt. It caused many issues, including credit memos to refund sales tax charges.
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Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
I found the Excel piece of IBM Cognos TM1 to be easier to use than CCH Tagetik. It was much easier to customize the data being pulled and the feel of the reports because of that. Other than that, CCH Tagetik has been more user friendly than IBM Cognos TM1. Navigating within the application is much easier. IBM Cognos TM1 had a lot of issues with certain modules that could not be open concurrently; this would often lead to phantom data being entered in the system. I have not had these issues with CCH Tagetik.
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Scalability
Avalara
There is no change that has to happen as your company grows, Avalara continues to do it's job for any size company
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Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
A good and performing scalability both on a geographical and a legal entity scale. The link with MS Office suite allows an easy deployment of the application, especially for contributors.
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Return on Investment
Avalara
  • With Wayfair, our tax obligation increased 300% and still growing. Avalara was an extremely valuable resource in helping us manage those requirements.
  • Avalara has allowed us to maintain staff levels without increasing our overhead for any new associates to focus on those tax issues.
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Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
  • Gave us a tool that can absolutely grow with us to help multi phase implementations.
  • A significant time savings in terms of the amount of time we used to spend running reports vs. the time we spend now. Unbelievable improvement.
  • Gives us the option to use CCH Tagetik to solve business problems that perhaps we didn't have when we implemented CCH Tagetik. It gives us options without the possibility of implementing a whole other software package.
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