IDU-Concept vs. Limelight Software

Income Statements per cost centre (actual vs budget) that has been mapped to meet my business requirements. The ability to drill-down to the GL level in each cost centre when reviewing Income Statements. The ability to group Income Statements per region for ease of reporting. The Budget module that offers flexibility and automatic calculations based on inputs make budgeting easier.

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.

Incentivized

• Agile reporting
• Collaborative forecasting and budgeting
• Up to date reporting with GL integration

Incentivized

• Complex template speed
• Customer service response - was good initially, but has become worse recently
• Formatting options in charts

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The reason for my rating is mainly due to the fact that the super user administering the layout, mapping, groupings, period control and period displayed (actual vs budget) needs to be fairly certain of what they are doing in order to make the changes in the admin module. They also need to be confident of the effect of the changes made to display correctly on the client module. Regarding usability on the client module, its very easy to use and understand once you play around the layouts etc.

We have not used or evaluated any alternative products. We have been using IDU for over 10 years and have not been in the market for alternatives.

Felt modern. Liked how it was similar to Excel. Liked the flexibility.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized