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    Fishbowl Inventory

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AFishbowl Advanced is the company's on-premises inventory tracking, warehousing, and manufacturing solution with hosted capabilities, offering real-time inventory visibility and control across all locations and order fulfillment for physical warehouses, on-the-go inventory, 3PL, or drop shipping.N/A

    Limelight Software

    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Limelight is a cloud-based FP&A platform designed to increase collaboration, productivity and time spent making intelligent, data-driven business decisions. The software integrates with ERP systems to centralize and leverage data to provide real-time insights for budgeting, forecasting and reporting. Budget managers can use Limelight to plan and forecast by designing and managing their own budget sheets with its interface. They collaborate across departments in real-time and…N/A
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    Fishbowl InventoryLimelight Software
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
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    User Ratings
    Fishbowl InventoryLimelight Software
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Fishbowl InventoryLimelight Software
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Fishbowl
    Fishbowl is well suited for warehouse operations because you can control, monitor, report or view the progress of materials all the way from purchasing and receiving to the shipment and tracking of products. It integrates with major carriers and with QuickBooks so it does offer a suite that can support the entire operation. It allows for workflow monitoring, so particular groups or products can be tracked.
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    Limelight Software
    Limelight is well suited for reporting, especially if you're GL is integrated with it. I've been able to create many different types of reports for a wide user base. It's easy to copy reports and change them based on different scenarios. Limelight has been great as a replacement for Excel for forecasting and budgeting. We have many users updating their individual forecasts, which then get consolidated. Previously, we would have to manually consolidated many Excel workbooks. Now this is done automatically by Limelight. Limelight struggles with processing speed if you create more complex reports/templates. I've asked how to speed up reports and most of the response is to make them less complex or have less people using the templates, neither of which work well for us as a solution. The help desk response use to be much better in the past. They have struggled in this area recently.
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    Pros
    Fishbowl
    • Inventory control - provides easy/accurate reports. Also, cycle counts can be done at any time. The warehouse team was easily trained.
    • Sales Orders - Fishbowl allowed us to have the sales orders accessible to everyone and linked the customers' purchase order to the orders and work orders (within the system). It no longer needs to be manually linked.
    • Custom reports - for a small fee we had reports customized specifically for our company.
    • Link to Quickbooks - invoices generated directly after closure of sales order.
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    Limelight Software
    • Agile reporting
    • Collaborative forecasting and budgeting
    • Up to date reporting with GL integration
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    Cons
    Fishbowl
    • MRP
    • BOM creation
    • Unified interface
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    Limelight Software
    • Complex template speed
    • Customer service response - was good initially, but has become worse recently
    • Formatting options in charts
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    Support Rating
    Fishbowl
    Originally the support for Fishbowl was very poor. It was hard to get anyone to help. In the last 12 - 14 months, it has greatly improved and if it continues this way I would certainly rate it higher.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Fishbowl
    Fishbowl is more useful than QuickBooks Manufacturing if you operate complex manufacturing with multiple multi layered BOMS
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    Limelight Software
    Felt modern. Liked how it was similar to Excel. Liked the flexibility.
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    Return on Investment
    Fishbowl
    • Positive: Decreased time spent on copy/pasting in spreadsheets.
    • Positive: Easier to analyze costs and guarantee efficiency.
    • Negative: Time to get it up and running is really difficult to work with.
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    Limelight Software
    • Limelight has helped us increase the speed of our forecasting, budgeting, and reporting
    • Limelight has helped us create models to look at many years in the future.
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    ScreenShots

    Limelight Software Screenshots

    Screenshot of an example visualization, used to show an audience the story behind the data in an elegant and compelling way.Screenshot of the workspace that brings Excel and the Web together, automatically consolidating financial and operational data for immediate analysis.Screenshot of dashboards that provide a central location for users to access, interact and analyze up-to-date information through interactive reports so they can make data-driven decisions.Screenshot of Limelight's self-service reporting, which allows users to create their own reports, dashboards and ad-hoc queries, which in turn allows for decision making that is based on key figures and trends.Screenshot of Limelight Workforce Planning's direct integrations with Payroll and HR systems, giving users up-to-date headcount data and automatically calculating taxes, benefits & bonuses.