Likelihood to Recommend Vanta seems excellent for startups, but I expect that they would be even more useful at bigger companies. I think it really helps people that haven't done SOC2 before. I also think it would help in monitoring compliance across teams with many users. If the budget is extremely tight, I think it would be possible to save money by not using it.
Read full review Wdesk is best suited for companies with demanding SEC filings and documents, with multiple revisions due to auditor/counsel review, and where financial reporting is extremely manual. Wdesk really helps take out the potential errors out of extremely manual processes, and helps automate regular financial reporting by allowing companies to link financial information and build customized flows of their information into financial statements and other documents (such as presentations or other internal reporting).
Read full review Pros API driven capabilities offer a very easy way to connect your systems to their application. It was mostly intuitive to figure out what needed to be configured. I like how responsive they have been and how they have been able to outline the entire process for us from the start to the end. Read full review The biggest strength of the program for our team is that multiple users can work in the document at the same time. Multiple users can be in the program updating financial statements, footnotes, MD&A - all without stepping on each other's toes. Rolling forward the documents from one period to the next is pretty simple. Links to source documents are maintained and new ones can be added without much hassle. Edits and changes can be made right up until the last minute before filing. There is no waiting period or pencils-down period unless we enforce one ourselves - the Financial Reporting team is in control of the timing of our filings. Read full review Cons In my opinion, they make it very hard to contact them when you need something. In my experience, they write their contracts to make it difficult to cancel service. In my experience, they have no policy for refunds in addition to their [...] contacts. Read full review The automation could be better. A lot of mass updates are done manually. Sometimes the system has connection issues and certain functions are down. The customer service could be more proactive to provide regular training and sharing updates on the software. Customer service could be better to help process the mass updates in a timely fashion. Read full review Likelihood to Renew Great to maintain for our SOC2 compliance and further compliance evolutions
Read full review Usability Pretty intuitive and great integrations
Read full review Overall it's a good-to-go product because of its features. It's easy to set up, meets requirements, has quality support, etc. So far, it has been working quite well for me, and I wish to continue using it for as long as it meets my requirements.
Read full review Reliability and Availability Always available
Read full review Performance Fast although the agent may take some time to reping on checks
Read full review Support Rating Direct support and replies in a timely manner to tickets submitted
Read full review Workiva's technical support is impeccable and undoubtedly one of the best. The times we needed them, they were super quick and willing to help. It works 24 hours a day, and there will always be someone to help with doubts or technical problems regarding the tool.
Read full review In-Person Training Pretty straight forward
Read full review Online Training Straight Forward
Read full review Implementation Rating Pretty seemless and did it almost entirely myself
Read full review Alternatives Considered Vanta's reporting was far superior, the price was competitive but my engineers running the project said that working with vanta would save them significant amount of time. Secondly vanta had more integrations so they could plug directly into the systems we use!
Read full review We moved from a third party filer to doing it in house. Have seen demos of products like Active Disclosure, which has come a long way from the beta version I saw and but we are not too far gone with Wdesk for us to evaluate other products. When we first signed up with Webfilings, (former name of Workiva), there were no viable products in the market. I had seen an Oracle product and a beta version of Active Disclosure. It was not hard to see the ease and intuitive-screens, to guide one through the filing process. The excel-like spreadsheets were an added bonus.
Read full review Scalability Works as intended
Read full review Return on Investment We were able to close contracts because we had our SOCII compliance in place SOCII certification process was reduced by at least 80% Read full review We spend less than we used to with a traditional printer. We have been able to do turn-on-a-dime equity offerings with last minute changes and still file on time. Inviting external legal into the platform has helped with communication but we actually suspect they spend MORE time (and billing) on our documents than they used to just simply because it's so easy to get at them anytime they want. Read full review ScreenShots