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Planful

Overview

What is Planful?

Planful is a cloud-based enterprise performance management (EPM) suite. It includes financial applications for modeling, planning, consolidation, reporting and analytics.

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Recent Reviews

Planful is NOT painful

10 out of 10
December 13, 2023
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Popular Features

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  • Financial budgeting (106)
    8.2
    82%
  • Management Reporting (100)
    8.0
    80%
  • Forecasting (99)
    8.0
    80%
  • Management reporting (103)
    8.0
    80%

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Pricing

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What is Planful?

Planful is a cloud-based enterprise performance management (EPM) suite. It includes financial applications for modeling, planning, consolidation, reporting and analytics.

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  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

6.6
Avg 8.0

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

7.3
Avg 8.3

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

6.6
Avg 8.2

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

6.3
Avg 7.6

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

8.5
Avg 8.7

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

7.4
Avg 8.0

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting

These activities are designed to assist with both data-driven operational, short-term planning and strategic long term planning

8
Avg 8.3

Consolidation and Close

Consolidation of data from multiple entities with currency management, reporting and audit trails.

6.6
Avg 8.0

Financial Reporting and Compliance

Financial statements and regulatory filings

7.3
Avg 8.2

Analytics and Reporting

Dashboards and scorecards for KPI monitoring and benchmarking

6.1
Avg 8.0

Integration

Ability to integrate with external applications.

6.8
Avg 8.3
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Product Details

What is Planful?

Planful offers end-to-end financial close, consolidation, and financial planning & analysis (FP&A) cloud software. The Planful platform is used by the Office of the CFO around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and visual analytics. The vendor states Planful's more than 1,000 customers, including Boston Red Sox, Del Monte, TGI Friday’s, and 23andMe, rely on Planful to accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy across the end-to-end FP&A process. Planful is a private company backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Learn more at www.planful.com.

STRUCTURED PLANNING Structured Planning with Planful automates labor-intensive planning activities in a cloud-based platform – to give the finance team control, consistency, and confidence in corporate financial plans, budgets, and forecasts.

DYNAMIC PLANNING Dynamic Planning with Planful enables flexible, high-frequency, data-driven planning, modeling, and decision-making so users in every corner of the organization can analyze, plan, and make confident decisions at the speed of business.

FINANCIAL CLOSE & CONSOLIDATION Financial Close & Consolidation with Planful empowers finance to accelerate month-end close and reporting cycles by automating data aggregation, journal entries, intercompany eliminations, minority interest, entity consolidation, currency conversion, and financial reporting.

FINANCIAL REPORTING Reporting with Planful provides a library of reporting formats and delivery options, enabling finance and business users to produce a wide range of interactive financial and management reports leveraging one source of truth.

WORKFORCE PLANNING Planful helps users to tackle workforce planning using accurate and current data from across the business. By simplifying and automating time-consuming tasks and building alignment across departments, users have more time to create a stronger people strategy.

PLANFUL FOR MARKETING Planful’s marketing solution, formerly known as Plannuh, is used to measure marketing at every level of the plan for full visibility and team efficiency. To protect the marketing budget, Planful for Marketing helps marketers build, measure, execute and improve with clarity.

Planful Features

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting Features

  • Supported: Long-term financial planning
  • Supported: Financial budgeting
  • Supported: Forecasting
  • Supported: Scenario modeling
  • Supported: Management reporting

Consolidation and Close Features

  • Supported: Financial data consolidation
  • Supported: Journal entries and reports
  • Supported: Multi-currency management
  • Supported: Intercompany Eliminations
  • Supported: Minority Ownership
  • Supported: Local and consolidated reporting
  • Supported: Detailed Audit Trails

Financial Reporting and Compliance Features

  • Supported: Financial Statement Reporting
  • Supported: Management Reporting
  • Supported: Excel-based Reporting
  • Supported: Automated board and financial reporting

Analytics and Reporting Features

  • Supported: Personalized dashboards
  • Supported: Color-coded scorecards
  • Supported: KPIs
  • Supported: Cost and profitability analysis
  • Supported: Key Performance Indicator setting

Integration Features

  • Supported: Flat file integration
  • Supported: Excel data integration
  • Supported: Direct links to 3rd-party data sources

BI Standard Reporting Features

  • Supported: Pixel Perfect reports
  • Supported: Customizable dashboards
  • Supported: Report Formatting Templates

Ad-hoc Reporting Features

  • Supported: Drill-down analysis
  • Supported: Formatting capabilities
  • Supported: Predictive modeling
  • Supported: Report sharing and collaboration

Report Output and Scheduling Features

  • Supported: Publish to Web
  • Supported: Publish to PDF
  • Supported: Report Versioning
  • Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling

Data Discovery and Visualization Features

  • Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
  • Supported: Predictive Analytics

Access Control and Security Features

  • Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
  • Supported: Role-Based Security Model
  • Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
  • Supported: Report-Level Access Control
  • Supported: Single Sign-On (SSO)

Mobile Capabilities Features

  • Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
  • Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Planful Screenshots

Screenshot of Planful Planform DashboardScreenshot of Planful for FinanceScreenshot of Planful for MarketingScreenshot of ReportsScreenshot of Capacity Planning TemplateScreenshot of Integrations

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Planful Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesWe have customers in 90 countries
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Planful is a cloud-based enterprise performance management (EPM) suite. It includes financial applications for modeling, planning, consolidation, reporting and analytics.

Workday Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, and Oracle Hyperion are common alternatives for Planful.

Reviewers rate Single Sign-On (SSO) highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of Planful are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

Planful Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)10%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)25%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)65%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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February 19, 2024

Planful's no slouch

Cory Abrahamson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This was a few years ago, but our cyber team wanted us to get single sign-on(SSO) setup for Planful and they wanted it done in a rush. We submitted a ticket as normal, but in addition since there was a demand to get this done ASAP, we also reached out to our client manager. Our client manager was able to get the ticket the appropriate support so that we could get SSO implemented in a very short time period.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Recently, Planful support was able to install alternate hierarchies for us same day which elevated our planning process and needs changed. Planful helped us respond to executives requests in the moment with the implementation of this feature in our instance.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The only time we've received exceptional support for Planful was through an Implementation Consultant we worked with to get our Structured Planning module set-up and utilized. The actual Planful support team that responds to support tickets has been less than helpful for the most part.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We had an issue with changing the way we were loading our data in the middle of year as a company had transitioned to a different ERP. This caused issues with the load. They brought in a solution architect to assist us in resolving the issue. He went above and beyond to assist as (As he was actually not in office at the time) and actually created and tested the fix (Upload) we needed to get accurate data.
December 13, 2023

Planful is NOT painful

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
This one is easy! We recently wanted to map an account to a line in our Opex Template so that when Capex items were built in the Capex template, it would fill those amounts into the depreciation line of the Opex Template, to gain awareness for our Money Managers that there were Capex items in their forecast. I reached out to Planful, thinking it could possibly take weeks to create and test in the sandbox environment, only to have it done within 30 minutes. They were so absolutely helpful, and what I loved most about that particular challenge was they didn't just do it for me, they were willing to SHOW ME how to do it so I might make enhancements to our environment on my own in the future.
Jennie Rush | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I was actually at the Planful Perform conference in 2019 and they had a Tech Support Area. I came with a list of issues I was having and the Planful Employee sat down with me and went through every single issue. I was amazed at the time they spent and devoted to me.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We initially went live using group currency. Years later decided that we wanted to convert to local currency. Customer Success Manager and IT support suggested multiple ideas to how we could make this happen. Eventually tested this out in a sandbox environment and moved to production environment.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In one of our quarterly check-in calls with our CSM, we described an issue that we were facing with actuals vs forecast wage reporting. Our CSM offered to setup a call with one of the Planful architects the following week, and I was able plan out a solution for our implementation, without any additional costs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
When we were scheduled to implement Modeling, our third party consultants were too overwhelmed to fit us in their schedule, but Planful had one of its developers step up to assist in our implementation. It went incredibly smoothly, was completed in only six weeks, and allowed us to learn about and train on the tool directly from one of the individuals who developed it.
November 13, 2020

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Niru Irukulla | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Product team was very receptive to some features/functionality i had been wanting and actually deployed it. They definitely try to listen to the customer. And they have provided 1:1 support when needed for some system related projects we were rolling out.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We had a Friday a few years ago when our system response time slowed way down, making the software unusable. We entered a ticket with Host and marked it critical since we were working on a forecast. The issue was escalated by Host to the executive level and Host personnel worked the weekend to figure out the problem and implement a fix. On Monday morning when we came in, our system work response time was even better than before. We were thrilled.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Actually numerous times. We use the support team often, and would say compared to other products I have never had service as good with other systems. They have assisted us with writing a complex report, just answering questions and directing us to the right places. We have used them as a second set of eyes on a report that isn't working as intended. Although we have had instances where were haven't been happy with a particular issue overall I think they do a wonderful job in support and I truly believe they want me as a client to be successful.
Michael Krolick | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
There was a point where we were having some difficulty with our Boomi connector to our general ledger. The Host staff was always available to work on the issue even giving support after hours when we had a need. This was very impressive to our organization and gave us the comfort that our needs were taken seriously.
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