Centage Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our main use of the Centage tool has been around reporting actuals. We are a complex company with multiple subsidiaries, multiple currencies, multiple geographies and several verticals that cross-over each other.

Being able to report through analytics has shaved many hours off of our reporting cycle.

Likelihood to Recommend

In a simpler environment with less subsidiaries and currencies, set-up would have been quick, it did take quite some time, but now works perfectly.

Centage works great with simplifying and streamlining actuals reporting (and with budget comparisons). Budgets also allow upload which is quick and easy once you figure out the format.

We have many many budget holder, it would be nice if Centage had different user level pricing (perhaps they do) as most of our users only touch budgets and only 1 or 2 need full access.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our current system's reports are outdated and difficult to manage. With Centage we are able to bring in our actual data, consolidate, create appropriate intercompany eliminations, and complete all of our financial reporting, including plan data, with consistency and accuracy.

Likelihood to Recommend

Centage can do everything we need for a medium to large company with many locations and multiple companies. It does get a little slower to plan the more data you have but that can be overcome with uploading data from Excel.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Centage to prepare annual budgets but also for monthly reporting package. We have a complex business with multiple locations and departments across the locations. We budget at a very granular level. We use a lot of dirvers and calculations when preparing budgets. Centage tool offers a lot of flexbiliby to set up the budgets to match the business specific needs.

Likelihood to Recommend

Centage is suited for all types of business. This is what makes this tool so great. It requires some expertise in setting it up and depending on how complex the business is, it may take longer than expected. It's a complex system and if you are not involved in the implementtion it might be hard to learn what is does.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been a customer of Centage for over 12 years we started with Budget Maestro and have moved to Planning Maestro. We have a very complex budgeting process and Planning Maestro makes it so much easier. We have 40+ programs with up to 10 funders in some programs so very complicated and time consuming if you had to use excel. I am very pleased with this product, but Centage's best part is the customer and service support. Don't get me wrong I do like the product as well and they are always trying to find ways to improve it but supporting us when we need is what makes this company great. Thanks for all you do.

Likelihood to Recommend

Centage is well suited for a company with high complex budgets.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Centage's Planning Maestro to prepare our annual budgets. Centage allows us to import a lot of information rather than having to manually key it. Another great time-saving feature is the ability to build hierarchies to do budget "rollups" for various owners and managers.

Likelihood to Recommend

Centage is well suited for companies that manage a large volume of departments, cost centers, or entities.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Centage's Planning Maestro for Annual Budgeting and Reforecasting purposes. It's really good as all the inputs entered by all the budget holders get consolidated in our income statement in real time. We can manage access to specific accounts, cost centers and project codes to each budget holder, which makes the process more efficient and minimizes errors. We also use they allocations methods, which are very useful in our case. There is also the possibility of managing different versions of Budgets and reforecasts.

Likelihood to Recommend

For Budgeting and re-forecasting, Centage is very good. The help desk is extremely efficient and helpful It's a robust and reliable system For actuals and Actuals versus budget, we are limited as the actuals data is not coming by project I had challenges with analytics maestro when I want to try very detailed reports

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Datalogics uses Planning Maestro for its annual plan and any updates. Any company worth its salt knows that planning is >50% of success! Having a real time web-based tool makes the planning process easier. Centage was able to do a one-way integration with our older ERP Dynamics SL, loading our actuals into Planning Maestro. The implementation and support we receive from Centage is very good. We were able to get up and running in the expected the frame.

Likelihood to Recommend

Any company that needs to do planning can benefit from Centage and Planning Maestro. It is suitable for cost sensitive companies. If you have an ERP without a good reporting tool, I wouldn't want to do all my financials in Analytics Maestro.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Planning Maestro to determine our budget numbers viewed in multiple ways. We gather information for many departments in our company and input that information into Planning Maestro. We also upload the actual sales and expenses to Planning Maestro, allowing us to create a limitless amount of reports showing our forecast for the year, or showing our actual compared to planned sales and expenses.

Likelihood to Recommend

Realizing how much detail I have to update at each year end, reminds me of how detailed you can go in Planning Maestro to get extremely accurate results based on so many variables.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Planning Maestro to develop our annual budget and prepare monthly/quarterly financial statements for management and our Board of Directors. Before partnering with Planning Maestro, we used an Excel workbook to develop and compile our annual budget. This caused all sorts of issues when preparing the staffing plan, especially if there were last minute changes before finalizing.

For reporting, we previously used our ERP system, which is extremely difficult to create or modify financial reports. The analytics Maestro Excel add-in tool made creating adhoc reports within Excel simple and easy. You can create reports and still use all the great features of Excel for analysis.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think Planning Maestro is well suited for small to medium-sized businesses. Larger organizations might find it challenging updating staffing within the tool. But if you can find a way, like we did, to group people together instead of budgeting every single individual, then it could work for organizations with more than 400 employees. If you like to budget using drivers and tools that make it simple to spread/allocate/use schedules, then Planning Maestro is right for you.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our firm provides outsourced accounting and CFO staff. We work with many different industries and company sizes. We often get pulled into groups where cash management and budgeting concerns are at the top of the management's list. We see many groups try and do this with Excel and other tools, which has some level of success but often gets left or forgotten due to it being a cumbersome process. We will often recommend Centage's Planning Maestro and its budget tools to help these organizations deal with the fatigue that comes from using Excel-based techniques.

Likelihood to Recommend

I've been a user for many years, moving from company to company, client to client, and this software has been my "go-to". The team at Centage has never let me down, whether in implementation, or general needs. I've been able to depend on them to continue to develop the product and listen when there have been items that need to be addressed. Companies that take a good hard look at this software will not be disappointed with its capabilities and what it can do for their organization.