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Axiom Software by Syntellis Performance Solutions

Score4 out of 10

12 Reviews and Ratings

What is Axiom Software by Syntellis Performance Solutions?

Syntellis Performance Solutions provides enterprise performance management software, data and analytics solution for healthcare organizations, financial institutions, and higher education institutions. Axiom arms finance teams and executives with tools for budgeting, forecasting, planning, and reporting, so they can analyze results, model the future, and make more strategic decisions.


Their solutions include enterprise planning, cost and decision support, and financial and clinical analytics tools to elevate healthcare organizational performance. Their budgeting, financial planning, and analytics solutions aim to help colleges and universities elevate financial performance. According to the vendor, over 2,800 organizations and 450,000 individuals are active users, and higher education institutions use Axiom software to manage nearly $60 billion in revenue and $100 billion in endowments. Banks, credit unions, and farm credit associations using Axiom solutions to manage nearly $1 trillion in assets.


Axiom Software is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Syntellis Performance Solutions (formerly Kaufman Hall Software).

Top Performing Features

  • Excel data integration

    Ability to integrate directly with Excel data.

    Category average: 8.7

  • Financial budgeting

    Annual budget for revenue and operating expenses, headcount/compensation, capital expenses, projects, etc.

    Category average: 8.9

  • Financial Statement Reporting

    Creation and production of balance sheets, income statements, cash flows, other schedules

    Category average: 8.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Benchmarking with external data

    CPI, daily exchange rates, industry KPIs. with scheduled data refreshes.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Financial data consolidation

    Consolidating data from several entities into a single statement using US GAAP, IFRS or other standards.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Cost and profitability analysis

    Cost and profitability analysis provides data for business decision making.

    Category average: 8.4

Axiom has completely transformed our budgeting process

Pros

  • Extremely flexible and dynamic allowing for customizations that align with our business needs
  • The database structure within Axiom allows us to create custom tables for adhoc data analysis
  • The processing time of Axiom (daily imports, monthly imports, Budgeting processes) are extremely favorable allowing us to cut our budget cycle time in half compared to our previous system.

Cons

  • The learning curve of their buildout of reporting is a bit confusing and definitely has some room for improvement. Once the concepts are learned and adapted, the reporting is extremely powerful.
  • Technical Support. The Technical Support team is extremely knowledgeable and they always resolve our issues in a timely fashion, however; the issue is getting a hold of a real person. Axiom relies heavily on email correspondence with support which lags the overall effectiveness, especially in urgent cases.

Return on Investment

  • Axiom has allowed us to cut our overall budget cycle time in half with a much higher level of accuracy in all facets of the budget.
  • Axiom has allowed us to Forecast, specifically Non Interest expense and Fee income at a very detailed and accurate level compared to our previous system.
  • The processing time of consolidating the Budget results went from about 8 hours in our previous system to 5 minutes in Axiom (35000 customer records)

Other Software Used

Fiserv AML Risk Manager, Fiserv Prologue Financials, Fiserv Frontier Reconciliation

Good for budgeting, but others are much better

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company was using Axiom for making our financial strategies stronger, we wanted our enterprise performance management software to make predictions on the cash flow and analyse the data in hand.

Pros

  • Data analysis
  • Customer services
  • Budgeting

Cons

  • Support
  • Data migration
  • Value for money
  • Speed
  • Accessibility
  • Dashboarding
  • Overall Features

Return on Investment

  • Forecasting has improved
  • Complexity of analysis has improved as well
  • Our main data has been confused as we started using Axiom

Other Software Used

SAP ERP

The Axiom that Axiom is a Cool Product

Pros

  • Budgeting
  • Performance Reporting
  • Customer Support

Cons

  • Implementation is quite Complex and requires both IT and Financial buy-in
  • Reporting solution has some learning curve for end users
  • Calculation methods within reporting can be opaque and hard to trace

Return on Investment

  • Our Budget process is ~90% faster
  • Our reporting is more robust than ever before
  • Automation has allowed us to shave almost a full FTE out of Finance.

Other Software Used

Infor M3 (formerly Lawson Intentia)

Axiom Software - Review

Pros

  • Financial statements
  • Budgeting planning
  • Drill downs

Cons

  • Customer service
  • Cost accounting knowledge
  • Update support
  • Training
  • Costing steps missing from process guide
  • Taking responsibility

Return on Investment

  • Expensive
  • Keeps managers informed

Alternatives Considered

Allscripts Practice Management and Allscripts Professional EHR

Other Software Used

Microsoft Excel, ParagonERP, Microsoft Teams

Two experiences with Axiom: Consultation and Client input are key to a great product

Pros

  • detailed labor charges/planning
  • real time updating of information in tool

Cons

  • report development. standard reporting
  • testing revisions/enhancements prior to deliver to client

Return on Investment

  • not sure as I am not at this level

Alternatives Considered

Workday Cloud Platform, PeopleSoft Financials and JAGGAER (formerly SciQuest)

Other Software Used

PeopleSoft Financials, Workday Cloud Platform, Workday Human Capital Management