LivePlan vs. Pigment

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
LivePlan
Score 8.8 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
LivePlan is business plan software for entrepreneurs. Features include the pitch creation, sample plans, financial assessments, and performance dashboards.
$15
Monthly & Annual billing options available
Pigment
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Pigment is an enterprise-grade business planning platform that provides users with a 360° view of the business, updates its financial models in real-time, and allows users to run what-if scenarios at the click of a button. Pigment aims to enable FP&A and revenue teams to improve cross-functional collaboration, increase internal efficiency, and align financial and operational plans, all while scaling reporting and data management.N/A
Pricing
LivePlanPigment
Editions & Modules
LivePlan Premium
Starting at $30/month
Monthly & Annual billing options available
LivePlan Standard
Starting at $15/month
Monthly & Annual billing options available
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LivePlanPigment
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsLivePlan Standard Includes: - Step-By-Step Instructions - Automatic Financial Statements - Full Financial Forecast - One-Page Pitch Builder - 500+ Sample Plans LivePlan Premium includes everything in Standard, plus: - Industry Benchmark Data - Financial Forecast Scenarios - Performance Dashboards - Milestone Planner - LiveForecast - Syncs with Xero & QuickBooks All subscriptions come with a 60-day money-back guarantee and access to expert customer support.—
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Community Pulse
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Features
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BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
LivePlan
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Ratings
Pigment
7.5
4 Ratings
3% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings6.64 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
LivePlan
-
Ratings
Pigment
7.4
5 Ratings
10% below category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings7.55 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings6.75 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings7.93 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.35 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
LivePlan
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Ratings
Pigment
8.1
5 Ratings
1% below category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings7.75 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings8.44 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
LivePlan
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Ratings
Pigment
7.3
4 Ratings
4% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings7.54 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings6.84 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.54 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
LivePlan
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Ratings
Pigment
7.9
4 Ratings
10% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings7.74 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.44 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings7.54 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
LivePlan
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Ratings
Pigment
7.1
4 Ratings
10% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.54 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings6.44 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.54 Ratings
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Product A and Product B
LivePlan
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Ratings
Pigment
7.7
6 Ratings
7% below category average
Long-term financial planning00 Ratings8.16 Ratings
Financial budgeting00 Ratings7.66 Ratings
Forecasting00 Ratings7.76 Ratings
Scenario modeling00 Ratings7.26 Ratings
Management reporting00 Ratings7.86 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
LivePlan
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Ratings
Pigment
7.0
5 Ratings
13% below category average
Financial data consolidation00 Ratings7.05 Ratings
Journal entries and reports00 Ratings6.14 Ratings
Multi-currency management00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
Minority Ownership00 Ratings6.44 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails00 Ratings8.44 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Product A and Product B
LivePlan
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Ratings
Pigment
7.4
5 Ratings
9% below category average
Financial Statement Reporting00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Management Reporting00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting00 Ratings7.15 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing00 Ratings7.33 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
LivePlan
-
Ratings
Pigment
7.4
6 Ratings
8% below category average
Personalized dashboards00 Ratings7.76 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards00 Ratings6.75 Ratings
KPIs00 Ratings7.65 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis00 Ratings7.55 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
Integration
Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
LivePlan
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Ratings
Pigment
7.6
5 Ratings
10% below category average
Flat file integration00 Ratings7.64 Ratings
Excel data integration00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources00 Ratings7.35 Ratings
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User Ratings
LivePlanPigment
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
(6 ratings)
7.7
(6 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
LivePlanPigment
Likelihood to Recommend
Palo Alto Software
All businesses require solutions and tools for organization and control of expenses, spreadsheets were always the first option, but since the arrival of LivePlan, all work is easier and more automated. With LivePlan we have charts and graphs that are automatically created based on our data, this is a great time and money saver. LivePlan is a tool that has worked from day one and has met our expectations in creating the total budget.
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Pigment
Planning, financials, and even sales tracking are greatly helpful for project planning. This makes product planning easy; you can simply see what the industry is demanding and what should be produced more in coming quarters. If you have really huge data, then this sometimes crashes.
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Pros
Palo Alto Software
  • It makes it easy and simple to plan and budget the business.
  • It allows creating of accurate business forecasts.
  • It has detailed yet easy to use and customize built-in templates to help you get along with business planning easily.
  • It integrates and works perfectly well woth accounting tools like QuickBooks such that it is easy to import the accounting data.
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Pigment
  • Helping organizations assess the impacts of various business decisions effectively​
  • Seamlessly integrates with multiple data sources
  • Collaboration with other teams and teammates
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Cons
Palo Alto Software
  • UX: It's beyond time for an overhaul, especially on mobile. It can make the app seem dated.
  • The accounting software integration has been prone to break and need to be re-setup, though that seems to have improved.
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Pigment
  • Its not that stable, need some improvements in stability of the product. Gets crashed sometimes
  • There is learning curv for script as pigment have its own logic things
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Usability
Palo Alto Software
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Pigment
Pigment helped us a lot to improve our data integration and financial planning processes, which helps us to save some time on these tasks. By automating all the data imports from the other tools we use, we don't need to do all these tasks manually. And details reports and analysis helped us to cut data preparation time by at least 60%
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Alternatives Considered
Palo Alto Software
We did not really find a similar solution. All other solutions are focused on project management, [there's] nothing on generating a business plan. There is nothing on this level that helps people without any business experience write the plan. They have samples, instructions what to write where, how to prepare for pitching, and generate dashboards. Nothing in this market gets anywhere close to this solution.
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Pigment
Unlike other tools, Pigment provides seamless data integration and imports from other tools. Importantly integrations are most useful for us, and it has integrations with most of the tools we use.
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Return on Investment
Palo Alto Software
  • It has made it easy to create sensible budgets and run our business within the proposed budgets to avoid overspending.
  • It allows us to keenly follow up and keep track of how the business is performing thus getting to know on which ares we should improve.
  • It helps us have accurate future insights of the position of our business thanks to its forecasting functionality.
  • It helps us to create outstanding business plans and fund the plans which help us grow our business by improving its productivity.
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Pigment
  • Capacity to anticipate better (forecasting accuracy improved)
  • Single source of truth for internal and external financial KPIs
  • Agility to compare scenarios and making decisions based on that
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