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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 Review

7 out of 10
February 09, 2023
I've used it for budgeting in the past. Currently use it for reporting. Would prefer to use it for budgeting, but Planful does not allow …
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Planful Review 2022

7 out of 10
December 07, 2022
I use Planful on a monthly basis for forecast and P&L reporting. People are the huge assets of our company and we require lots of details …
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How Planful Differs From Its Competitors

Collaboration with Planful

It does a good job in gathering all the data from various units. My company has a dozen units and Planful is used to gather and consolidate all the data into a single reporting format. Drill down function can be improved somewhat. Certain numbers can't be drilled down which is one of my main …
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Suite of Capabilities

We have definitely benefited from using Planful. The unique hierarch structure of planful allows us to map a single corp level COA and consolidate all the data.
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Collaboration with Planful

Just by being able to produce so many reports so quickly, Planful has saved our team then time of generating manual reporting so that we can shift our time towards actually working and communicating results with the business .
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Collaboration with Planful

Most of our companies were using their local GL's for their internal financial reporting. Once we showed them how to use report collections, where one report can be run for many different variables, such as department, business segment, etc, our subsidiaries started using Planful for their …
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Suite of Capabilities

Previously to using Planful, we were not doing a subsidiary level forecast on a monthly basis. Planful has allowed us to add this level of detail to our forecast process so we can get a much more accurate view of how we are performing on a company-by-company basis.

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Collaboration with Planful

There are multiple ways that data can be collected and disbursed to business units. The ability for users who are in different areas of the company to run the same report simultaneously helps eliminate unnecessary requests and speeds us the process to get data to employees when the need it.
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Suite of Capabilities

While we do not use all the tools, the ability to have budget /actuals / forecast in one platform increases productivity and allows for more analysis rather than time spent on data gathering. Similar to most systems, the more standardized a company's reports can be designed, the more effiecient it …
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Automation

Utilize report collectors (automatic report distribution) to any employee in organization (user or non-user), easily roll monthly forecasts to next financial period, create various reports for all levels of organization. Create a common platform for those responsible with budgets and forecast to …
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Ease of Reporting

Once fully trained, simple reports can be created in minutes… other complex reports may take hours, but overall easy to use for those interested in report design / creation.
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Finance Self-Service

Self serve reporting, analysis and planning is easily accommodating using the platform. If properly implemented, interface can be designed to restrict end users only what they need to use.
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Real-Time Data

We use planful to update ERP information several times a day. We can then use that data in multiple platforms such as structured reporting, dashboards, and modeling information.
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Data Accuracy

We use planful to update ERP information several times a day. We can then use that data in multiple platforms such as structured reporting, dashboards, and modeling. Requires less manual intervention to update and reduces the chances of keying errors. Has built-in security to ensure users have …
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Collaboration with Planful

Planful lays out what our possible costs are, and seeks out to address avenues for how to manage these costs across all departments and consolidate this into planning that is growth driven. Planful gives a real time look into what we budget for each departments and what we are actually driving …
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Suite of Capabilities

Planful touches all aspect of finance integration. Our CFO is amazed at how easy it is for him to have all his reports consolidated in one cloud bucket. The Key Performance Indicators give a real time view of all segments of budgeting, Implementation, and reporting. Planful provides multiple …
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Collaboration with Planful

It's enhanced my ability greatly as the information that comes from Planful, and the analysis, helps inform business leaders in my organization, who then take what I give them to inform other business partners within our organization. It has positively changed how we do FP&A, and I don't even want …
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Suite of Capabilities

I've benefitted by being able to take care of tasks, and other ad hoc assignments from my supervisors, by interacting and learning from the platform. If there's one thing I could say about this tool to speak to it's effectiveness, it is how easy it is to catch on to the different ways to use it! :)
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Collaboration with Planful

Planful has enabled collaboration up and down the finance chain, with review occuring at multiple levels, with "subledger" to the budget available. We do not currently use it outside of Finance, but has definitely enabled collaboration across 50+ entities within finance and accounting.
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Suite of Capabilities

Planful has enabled multiple people to pull their own information, enabling everyone from the CFO down to Analysts to pull their own data, and get access to what they need, when they need it. This has really empowered everyone in the organization to self serve. The biggest downfall, as an …
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Collaboration with Planful

I really only report our department's finances to my budget administrator in the Dean's Office. He is the one who looks over and approves my forecasting/reporting, then sends it over for final approval to what would be considered the university's finance department. My budget administrator does …
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Suite of Capabilities

I have benefitted because I have gained time back rather than having to use multiple tools at a time and make things confusing. It's nice to be able to flip back and forth and see my budget work change in the reports in real time without having to wait. It makes things quick and easy when …
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Collaboration with Planful

As a financial business analyst, I collect the data from the business teams and do the upload into Planful or manually enter the Opex details besides the employee details. We haven't used Planful to collect data or share with the business teams so that they can be self efficient to do their …
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Suite of Capabilities

Planful is easy to use. Also, it has the control functionalities allow us to do something but not to do something if we override a formula cell that we shouldn't be. Hence, it improves the accuracy of the reporting. If the data are verified and accurate at the department level, the …
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Collaboration with Planful

I was able to set up our hierarchies to mirror what our home office accounting department requires/uses. This gave me the ability to easily export a dynamic report that I created and literally email it to accounting when they request forecast updates from our department. Also, having the ability …
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Suite of Capabilities

Unfortunately, the tool doesn't make it up to our CFO office, as we are just an overhead department using it to track our operational expenses. But I will add that our department has been UNDER budget every year since using Planful, and being an overhead department, it is essential that we are …
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Automation

We have automated reports we use weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly. We do not use Planful it is the truest and fullest ability for financial planning holistically for income statements, balance sheets, etc. as we are an Overhead department. We also use Planful for all Workforce planning in structured …
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Ease of Reporting

Dynamic reports are so easy to create. When we first began using Planful it was challenging, but now that we've used the program for a few years, Planful continually improves the capabilities and it has enabled us to continue to do better and better. Dynamic reports are very easy. I think …
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Finance Self-Service

Planful is so easy to manipulate. Even when we have new money managers request access, it takes very little training to run through their responsibilities in the program and how to utilize all of the tools they need. I've stated it before, the improvements over the years have been impeccable, …
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Real-Time Data

This feature was the final deciding factor for us to purchase Planful. It is a priceless feature to have financials at all of our money manager's fingertips daily (and even hourly). It has helped us streamline so many processes. With the built-in access security, we are able to use real salary …
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Data Accuracy

Our data accuracy has definitely been impacted by the use of Planful. In the past, it was very difficult to reconcile our processes in our custom-built tool to the "one source of the truth" data that comes out of SAP. Moving onto the Planful platform, I have been asked multiple times if I believed …
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Collaboration with Planful

The reporting capabilities allow us to share data with multiple departments. We have bi-weekly management meetings where almost all reporting is pulled from Planful (forecast updates, headcount trends, workforce changes, budget updates, etc). We also can run reports for other departments based on …
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Suite of Capabilities

I support all 25 Money Managers that we have using Planful. Because the tool is so easy to use, it allows me to provide data to Money Managers in minutes. They can access their financials in real time at the click of a button. It's incredibly easy to use and makes life easier for our Technology …
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Automation

Prior to Planful we used a custom-built tool with an excel interface called Projects Utility. It was very painful because when multiple money managers were in it at the same time, it would bog down the program. To get new financials to populate, it would take 20 minutes or more of spinning for the …
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Ease of Reporting

Reporting is great. There's so many filter options that it makes creating the report you want super easy. You can choose what you want, run it, then make changes if needed. Then you save it when you're done. It's that quick.
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Finance Self-Service

Our money managers have some challenges navigating the tool when they aren't in it for awhile. But they can view their cost centers with ease and pull our standard reports and create off those as needed. I have monthly variance meetings with our money managers where we discuss their previous …
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Data Accuracy

We are collaborating with Money Managers on a daily basis. We interact with the tool constantly and can make changes any time we need. Looking forward to using the new Planful Predict feature to help even more with data accuracy.
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Collaboration with Planful

Department heads and sales leaders can log in and update their planning templates and then click save and the roll-up is pretty much there depending on the level of manipulation post contributor the finance team wants to leverage. Furthermore, they can then view the submitted data in reporting …
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Suite of Capabilities

We don't use Planful's consolidations, but being able to do planning (financial, operational, and workforce) and reporting all from a single platform allows for greater confidence in the data.
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Automation

We have some report collections to help automate reporting out of Planful (formerly Host Analytics), but I think there's still additional work we could do to further streamline the process.
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Ease of Reporting

It's very simple to create and modify reports within Planful (formerly Host Analytics). We've only recently enabled dashboards (wasn't aware it was a feature we had access to use), but they seem pretty straightforward to create. Not as robust as a full visualization reporting tool (e.g., Tableau) …
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Finance Self-Service

I'd say for 90% of my user-base, it's very easy for them to create their own ad hoc reporting for analysis. I do have at least one user that tends to need additional assistance with any report changes that aren't simple dimension changes. Also, I frequently get very specific/complex reporting …
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Data Accuracy

We've been able to create specific reports to validate our Planful data and ensure accuracy for user submissions into our monthly forecasts.
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Collaboration with Planful

With the use of report collections in Planful, we are easily able to create department specific reports and distribute them in a number of different formats to those specific departments. This is all done automatically within the reporting module, even down to emailing the specific planful users. …
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Suite of Capabilities

The consolidation of the financial planning, operational planning, consolidation, reporting, etc to one singular platform streamlines the entire finance and accounting departments. One benefit of the consolidation is using planful as a singular data source. this eliminates the painful process of …
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Collaboration with Planful

Planful has helped our FP&A function work much more closely with our accounting teams and verifying data across various financial statements, balance sheets, etc. and where our reporting is showing through Planful. It helps keeps our finance teams on the same page and up to date in real time as …
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Suite of Capabilities

With Planful’s unified suite of financial planning, reporting, and analysis tools, I benefited from efficient integration between Planful planning data and NetSuite actual data, to enable effective preparation budgeting and tracking business performance on multiple dimensions, such as department, …
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Collaboration with Planful

We are able to publish our P&Ls much faster than we did before. This allows for our field teams to get their information in a more timely manner in order to make changes at the hospital level. At the moment, only our finance and accounting teams have access to the data but we do have plans to …
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Suite of Capabilities

Benefited extremely. We have been able to move all of our budgeting and planning into Planful, rather than utilizing massive spreadsheets in Excel. Now we are able to go into one system that syncs with our Accounting ERP and the information is there. There is no need to upload or download or …
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Collaboration with Planful

Planful has helped our finance department tremendously in terms of aggregating data from across our multiple entities and sister companies. This helps financial planning and analysis teams collaborate and determine how to function in cohesion.
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Suite of Capabilities

Using one platform makes it simpler and more efficient for consolidations and reporting as multiple people can collaborate and contribute to the finance team as a whole. We have benefited by reducing our downtime, errors, and omissions from the financial data we use. I would say this is the main …
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Collaboration with Planful

Spotlight is the best tool to do that. It can connect with other systems eg. Power Bi, can bring in more dimensions, and plan on the lowest level. Multiple levels of security allow nonfinancial users to add their budgets directly so not the accountant's job to collect and input all.
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Suite of Capabilities

We are behind on this. We know the possibility but every department has the freedom to find its own tools. I hope in the future we can utilize all segments of the system as it would be time and cost-saving for the whole company, just would need maybe from Planful to help us show them.
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Suite of Capabilities

One platform, one interface, one source of financial truth - eliminates confusion and allows you to focus on what is important - that is what the numbers mean and what actions follow from that source of information.
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Collaboration with Planful

We currently only use the planning module to consolidate the plan. Detail planning is still done within the local companies' ERP as well as cost center reporting. Summary level plan data is then uploaded or entered into Planful.
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Suite of Capabilities

Using Planful to consolidate data from multiple companies and have this data stored in one place allows us to create corporate reporting efficiently. Using spotlight XL for reporting has given us the ability to respond quickly to changes in data, so reporting is accurate and up to date.
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Collaboration with Planful

Planful has made it possible for the Finance team to plan in a defined, consistent manner with templates that are used across the business. At the same time, templates (and reports) are designed to where the key stakeholders outside of Finance (ex. Marketing) can understand how their spend is …
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Suite of Capabilities

It really cannot be overstated how having Planful as the single source of truth has simplified our processes and made it so we can meet our reporting requirements, even as those may change over time. We can now run reports that pull in our actual data and easily compare against any of our …
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Popular Features

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  • Management Reporting (92)
    9.5
    95%
  • Management reporting (95)
    9.5
    95%
  • Financial budgeting (98)
    9.4
    94%
  • Forecasting (92)
    9.0
    90%

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Vena Solutions provides a financial process automation solution to automate Corporate Performance Management, accounting and budgeting, Regulatory & Compliance, and other finance-related processes. It is scaled for medium to large-sized organizations.

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

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

8.1Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

8.1Avg 8.4

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8Avg 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.

7.5Avg 7.6

Access Control and Security

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

9.2Avg 8.8

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

7.7Avg 7.8

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting

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

9Avg 8.5

Consolidation and Close

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

8.8Avg 8.3

Financial Reporting and Compliance

Financial statements and regulatory filings

8.4Avg 8.4

Analytics and Reporting

Dashboards and scorecards for KPI monitoring and benchmarking

7.2Avg 8.0

Integration

Ability to integrate with external applications.

8.3Avg 8.5
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Product Details

What is Planful?

Planful provides a Continuous Planning platform that enables finance to automate and accelerate FP&A activities, drive faster and more agile planning and decision-cycles, and elevate the financial IQ of the organization so that everyone is making smarter decisions more frequently. Planful is an end-to-end platform for financial planning, consolidation, and reporting & analysis.

STRUCTURED PLANNING Structured Planning with Planful automates labor-intensive planning activities in a complete 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.

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 DashboardScreenshot of Planful Dynamic ReportScreenshot of Planful Financial ConsolidationScreenshot of Planful Planning Control PanelScreenshot of Planful Structured Planning TemplateScreenshot of Planful Task Manager

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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.

Reviewers rate Single Sign-On (SSO) highest, with a score of 9.9.

The most common users of Planful are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 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

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Planful is well suited for a small to medium sized company. It's well suited for my company which is in the manufacturing industry. I wouldn't recommend this for Oil and Gas companies due to its lack of certain ASC 932 specific functions. Overall speaking, it's a reliable software and i have enjoyed using it.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Plan is great for organizations who are looking to bring in their modelling into a unified platform without sacrificing the ease of use of traditional spreadsheets. Depending on how many of the features your organization wants to use, you'll need team members who can really dedicate their time to understanding how the platform works so you can continuously build and improve on functionality built.

Smaller companies who do not have the capacity to spare the resource may find it difficult to spare the time to fully immerse themselves and learn how to use the full capabilities of Planful
Cory Abrahamson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
At the beginning of Covid, there were many unknowns as most businesses didn't know what they would be able to do in specific states. The Structured Planning module worked well for me as I was able to run through all kinds of scenario options to help us determine our path forward.

I do really enjoy working in the Structured Planning module but the templates could open/close quicker, it can take a bit of time if you have a lot of templates to go through to update.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Planful (Formerly Host Analytics) is to be used by companies looking to move away from excel spreadsheets / emails to single database platform that can be maintained by multiple users. Offers many options for reporting and analysis. It is best used by linking data from ERP system and other software solution that capture actual data such as payroll systems, operations, etc..
February 09, 2023

Planful Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Simple to pull adhoc reports for myself or others; easy to export and format as needed. Not as customizable for our business needs so cant use it for forecasting periods.
Robert Picard | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Scenarios where it would be well-suited:
- Creating actual versus planned dashboards for budgetary and FP&A purposes
- Exporting or creating reports to examine vendor details, KPIs by a certain parameter, etc.

Scenarios where it is less appropriate:
- Creating very very intricate charts and graphs - I use Tableau for this if I want to easily interact with charts and tables
- Linking it to a database and making it more "alive" - for instance, in Tableau, I connect that to a database. I can't tell you how many times I've wished that I could do this with Planful.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Planful is well suited to anyone looking to consolidate multiple entities, multiple different ways if necessary. It provides strong journal entry capability for consolidating entries. It also allows for rapid stand-up of budgets and forecasts across many entities. It also provides great reporting functionality for management and compliance/financial reporting.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It is well-suited for budget and transfer reporting to my higher-ups and the university. It is also well-suited for planning transfers and structuring these accounts in general. It is not well-suited for new employees who have no experience with the tool and really just requires extensive training for someone to really understand the tool and how it works. There are so many different options in the tool, it can be confusing for someone who is unfamiliar.
December 07, 2022

Planful Review 2022

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Currently we use Planful for forecasting and budgeting purpose. It's suitable for company wants to forecast the employees in details but it requires manpower to maintain. The WFP reports are good for balancing but again we have to separate actual and forecast scenarios. You need to know what reports you refer to each month since some of them linked to the P&L directly and some with the employee details since you might get different numbers.
December 01, 2022

Planful delivers

Matt Teinert | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In general the tool does everything I need it to do and everything I was promised at the right price point. The planning side of the tool is a little clunky but gets the job done. It’s powerful, but maybe could be more user friendly. The reporting side is very very good.
November 18, 2022

Planful is NOT painful

Angel Woodard | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I am constantly talking about Planful and the benefits of using the system. I have been on numerous calls for Planful with possible clients, and I am always honest about how well the program works and how happy we are. Planful is flexible, and when changes are needed to our environment, Planful developers are always happy to help and walk us through all necessary scenarios.
Jennie Rush | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We have already recommended it to other departments and they are using it now. I work a lot in the workforce planning section and they have made huge strides to the manual way it was when I started using it. Currently we are working on automating workforce data and once that is complete, we will roll that out to other departments. Also, doing some research with another dept that is interested in Planful & how we can make sure the tool gives them everything they want.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros: The Planful (formerly Host Analytics) application is well suited for workforce planning. It's easy to manipulate the employee roster to make changes. Planful support is extremely responsive and typically able to resolve most basic issues within a few hours. Cons: We've been able to configure the system to load actual wages by employee, but it's a very clunky monthly load process. Reporting by employee position is difficult, as we aren't able to select a single role. If 20+ employees have the same role, we'll see that selection duplicated 20+ times.
November 04, 2022

A great FP&A tool

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
A specific scenario where Planful is well suited when creating financial reports. Due to the customizable column and row sets that you can create you can look at P&L to at any level of detail you so chose. You can also manipulate what data you want to look at when creating reports by using the page parameters. With the page parameters you can select specific locations of your business, or specific sections of your business.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Planful has been very helpful to us specifically with report automation. A report can be built and any user can access them based on their pre-determined access level and permissions. No manipulation, duplication, etc. is required of the finance team - from a front-end user perspective, Planful is easy to build a self-service platform and cuts down on the amount of reports we previously built in Excel and distributed via email.
August 28, 2022

Start-up using Planful

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using Quickbooks, thus we have to do a manual upload into Planful. Although this process is manual and a bit tedious, I was able to develop an Excel template to streamline the process as well as create check templates to be able to quickly verify the data loads. The manual functionality is a great option for smaller companies with less detail/activity. We are in the process of implementing NetSuite which can have an automated feed of the actual financial information. I look forward to having that process in place to help make the process more streamlined.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We evaluated multiple software before deciding to go with Planful for our budgeting software. We needed a tool that was adaptive and could grow with our company. We are acquiring hospitals weekly and needed something that could sync with our Accounting ERP and our Payroll/HR software. Planful gives us the ability to sync and have real-time data and can pull live reports. It also allows for just to calculate our P&L within the system.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Planful is well suited for companies with multiple entities as it is easy to quickly change from one to another. It also excels in terms of metrics and creating Excel reports from scratch...although some time could be saved by having the ability to extract live reports online to Excel.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Planful can show the data from different angles, dynamic reports allow companies to see their data much quicker than excel and more complicated way. Reporting is user-friendly and can be done by all levels of users easily (after training). When the system is busy more complex reports are not generated only after multiple attempts.
Wendy Annes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Powerful Cloud-based marketing performance software will help you to build and manage your marketing plans, budgets, and ROI to achieve the required operational marketing excellence in your organization and never again manage marketing expenses.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Each system has strengths and weaknesses, so it needs to be assessed based on your own company's goals/objectives. I believe Planful has robust reporting capabilities and various reporting options to utilize depending on your needs. Using report collections and the ability to burst reports and schedule distribution makes standard reporting extremely efficient. You are using workforce planning (Used at a previous company) to calculate benefits made an enormous difference in our accuracy. The modeling application is handy and quickly extracts/pushes back to the core application once the model is built. Creates a lot more flexibility in the system.
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