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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Emburse Tallie

    Score5.8 out of 10
    N/ATallie is an expense reporting tool that integrates with other billing or accounting platforms (e.g. bill.com, Quickbooks, etc.) to present an expense management solution. It was supported by Certify since the 2017 merger with that company and Nexonia under the new company Certify Travel and Expense, and is now from Emburse, the company formed from the merger of Certify and Chrome River Technologies in March 2019.N/A

    OpenAir PSA

    Score5.5 out of 10
    N/ANetSuite OpenAir is a cloud-based Professional Service Automation (PSA) product which includes capabilities around project management, resource management, project accounting, etc.N/A
    Pricing
    Emburse TallieOpenAir PSA
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Emburse TallieOpenAir PSA
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Emburse TallieOpenAir PSA
    Considered Both Products
    Emburse
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    NetSuite
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    60%
    Would buy again
    3 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    60%
    Happy with the feature set
    3 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
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    Features
    Emburse TallieOpenAir PSA
    Expense Management
    Comparison of Expense Management features of Emburse Tallie and OpenAir PSA
    Feature
    Emburse Tallie
    9.5
    3 Ratings
    14% above category average
    OpenAir PSA
    -
    Ratings
    Employee Expense Reporting9.23 Ratings00 Ratings
    Corporate Card Reconciliation9.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payment Management
    Comparison of Payment Management features of Emburse Tallie and OpenAir PSA
    Feature
    Emburse Tallie
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    OpenAir PSA
    -
    Ratings
    Customizable Approval Policies8.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial Document Management8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payment Status Tracking8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payment Audit Trail8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Duplicate Bill Detection8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Advanced OCR6.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Electronic Funds Transfer10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Emburse Tallie and OpenAir PSA
    Feature
    Emburse Tallie
    -
    Ratings
    OpenAir PSA
    7.3
    15 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Task Management00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings7.515 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings6.012 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings6.09 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings6.07 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings7.08 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings8.56 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings7.09 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings7.512 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings7.014 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings7.514 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Emburse Tallie and OpenAir PSA
    Feature
    Emburse Tallie
    -
    Ratings
    OpenAir PSA
    8.6
    10 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Quotes/estimates00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Invoicing00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings8.59 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Emburse TallieOpenAir PSA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (18 ratings)
    8.5
    (20 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (8 ratings)
    5.5
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Emburse TallieOpenAir PSA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Emburse
    Tallie is great for companies or outsourced accounting teams who are heavily involved with helping users upload receipts or code changes to the correct G/L Account groups or dimensions. Tallie allows for you to set up specific Expense options that are easier for users to chose what charges are for that are mapped to G/L Account groups in the background which allows for more accurate accounting. However, if your accounting books are using other dimensions like departments or projects the more complex the set up the more help a user might need, so it's nice how easy it is to drop into an account to help finish the more complex coding for users prior to them being submitted for approval.
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    NetSuite
    This product is well suited for an organization that is focused on client services, project delivery, time tracking, expense reporting, and revenue recognition. From a pure project management perspective, this product is not as feature rich as say Microsoft Project Server. For organizations that are looking for detailed complex project plan and resource management (along with resource leveling, etc.), this is probably not the best suited product
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    Pros
    Emburse
    • Seamless integration with Bill.com. While this will not specifically benefit every user, our organization was able to quickly marry the two tools and provide timely reimbursements to employees.
    • Customer support -- they're available via so many mediums: user training, email, phone, support case reference numbers. If you need assistance, whether an end-user or administrator, you can get it.
    • In-app camera with intelligent image analysis to extrapolate the vendor name, date of the transaction, amount. It also offers the ability to import a photo from your mobile gallery, and then perform the analysis.
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    NetSuite
    • Netsuite OpenAir PSA is highly configurable and has a large ecosystem of assets to work with.
    • Tasks are easily designed to automate processes in your business workflow.
    • OpenAir is designed in such a way that it can communicate and receive information from external systems without having to re-engineer your systems to make them work if you are following standard business practice.
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    Cons
    Emburse
    • Search functions need much improvement; i.e. vendor search for transactions.
    • Impossible to import transactions for dates prior to card being added to system. There's no going back.
    • Needs better recognition of expense categories. Sees airlines and Chick-Fil-A as Dues and Subscriptions (?)
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    NetSuite
    • Compared to QuickArrow, setting up reports to reflect the data accurately seemed to require a bit more consultant time and collaboration. Getting the numbers correct is essential, so budget extra time for this iniative. We also learned that certain calculations can not be displayed in the executive dashboards. Ask these questions upfront to ensure your dashboards are complete for your needs (again, working backwards in the preparation stages).
    • Compared to QuickArrow, NetSuite OpenAir PSA falls short in the resource management capabilities. UI, flexibility, and scheduling options all could be improved. This is on their roadmap, timeline yet to be defined. Scheduling is vitally important to our company and this is THE area where we feel is the applications weakest. However, the application does provide everything critical to scheduling and provided the elements we needed in order to be successful. We altered our scheduling process accordingly.
    • During our System Administration 3 day online training, when a question was asked about detailed functionality, sometimes the trainer would share..."Yes, OpenAir has a configuration for that. Just inquire with your consultant and they can flip that flag in your instance." The responsibility for obtaining these special application configurations was placed on the System Admin [in training] to ask and to take notes. If your company needs the application to work a certain way, speak up and ask your OA consultant. There seems to be MANY flags that can be flipped in the background to allow for the system to meet your needs. My complaint is that these are not published, rather made available if one inquires.
    • OpenAir is able to generate invoices directly and we strongly encourage using this feature to keep everything housed under one application. However, this did not work for our organization and we leveraged a financial integration. A bit of a pioneer integrating with Softrax -- the integration works well, however is quite fragile. We do receive appropriate support when needed, but would prefer the integration to be a bit more stable. We recommend integrating with their stated supported financial systems, as staying the course will likely net a more stable integration.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Emburse
    No answers on this topic
    NetSuite
    It all depends. We are still looking at moving our consultants to Oracle PAC, in order to get our financial systems in line (we use Oracle Financials currently). We are feeling a lot of pain with integration and segmented systems.

    Ultimately,it depends on how much pain is felt there. OpenAir has given us a path to follow on from QuickArrow. I foresee either moving onto Oracle PAC by end of calendar, or staying on OpenAir.

    OpenAir to Oracle integration is not easy. From a reporting and process perspective, there’s been pain from being in different systems
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    Usability
    Emburse
    Certainly not as robust as bigger products/names on the market, but the features/solution it offers do extremely well, with a good mobile app experience and a nice, clean interface. It helped our organization (7 locations) go paperless, which rapidly improved our expense capture and timeliness in reporting and also gave our staff a better, user-friendly expense report and reimbursement process.
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    NetSuite
    In this day and age I should not have to read a manual to understand a product. It should be intuitive to administrate and perform basic tasks. It feels like a ton of intelligence was poured into making OpenAir feature rich but no where near as much attention was given to the user experience.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Emburse
    No answers on this topic
    NetSuite
    The system up time was reliable and that was never anything we ever had any concerns/issues with.
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    Performance
    Emburse
    No answers on this topic
    NetSuite
    The performance was acceptable. If you had a very large data set you were working with it might take a little longer, but within reason.
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    Support Rating
    Emburse
    As a user of Tallie, I have never needed any support to use it. It is simple, logical and needs no training to use. As a company, I don't think we need any ongoing support but I believe the setup process, which they guided us through a year ago went well.
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    NetSuite
    As an admin, I've had more contact with OA support than most. I've found their response to tickets typically timely and helpful, however many of the responses to tickets are "we will file an enhancement request" and then I never hear about it again. So not terrible, but not a very fulfilling experience.
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    In-Person Training
    Emburse
    No answers on this topic
    NetSuite
    Very knowledgeable and able to articulate how other customers configured the solution to meet their needs as well as the best practices they recommended.
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    Online Training
    Emburse
    No answers on this topic
    NetSuite
    We did a 3 day online remote course back in April. NetSuite prefers training to occur before migration. We went over the functionality of tool and three months later we migrated. Personally, I didn’t find it that beneficial. Certain parts of it were beneficial as they applied to me – talked a lot about invoicing capabilities that didn’t apply to me. They also have knowledge base / e-learning assets, but I haven’t referred to them
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    Implementation Rating
    Emburse
    No answers on this topic
    NetSuite
    It went fine. Everything came over the way we wanted. In addition to migrating the current projects we wanted to migrate historical data – did that seamlessly. The finished product looked pretty good – just needed to tweak – and they helped us with that
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    Alternatives Considered
    Emburse
    Tallie stacks up well to Concur. In terms of ease of use, Tallie wins by a landslide. However, when it comes to deeper functionality and integrations into other systems within the business, Concur definitely wins there. So, Tallie is easier for more simple purposes, while Tallie works for more complex organizations.
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    NetSuite
    OpenAir accurately reflects changes in real-time as well as lends itself to see where a draw is at, when payment is expected and what percentage of the contract has been billed or approved to date. This helps with project billing and tracking as well as cash flow. Quickbooks lacks the ability to show progress draws, approved changes, and pending changes on a given project where OpenAir excels.
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    Scalability
    Emburse
    No answers on this topic
    NetSuite
    Once the system is setup, it's easy to manage and maintain.
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    Return on Investment
    Emburse
    • Tallie allows my finance team to spend so much less time on expense reports. After a large event, we would have 20 employees submitting reimbursements taking many hours of their time. This has cut out that time.
    • Tallie allows me to spend a total of fifteen minutes updating records in a report for reimbursement compared to the two hours I used to spend on our archaic system.
    • Tallie allows direct deposit into your account 2-3 days after your report is approved compared to the weeks it used to take to receive reimbursement.
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    NetSuite
    • It covers our requirements for time tracking and project/resource management better than the previous solution we used.
    • Project managers are happier having this tool for their job and also because it is running on the cloud as opposed to running on-prem.
    • It doesn't help in any way improving the "chasing" of the people that don't submit their time-sheets in time. This one stayed the same as before.
    Incentivized
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