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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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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

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  • 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.

6.7
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.

6.7
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.

6.7
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 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 and Ratings

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Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Customization
  • Export to Excel
  • Supports multiple user input, internal and external
  • Complexity and detail of functionalities (UI and UX) are not intuitive
  • Platform training resources for users are poor
  • In-platform collaboration not intuitive
February 29, 2024

Review of Planful

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reporting
  • Analyzing Data
  • Hierarchies
  • Wish there was more ease of use with creating reports. Sometimes I think to myself it would just be easier to export to Excel and make modifications there.
  • There are some formatting nuances that can be really frustrating.
  • I wish the dashboards had a bit more functionality.
  • There are some limitations that can be really frustrating. For example, you are unable to copy more than one report or an entire folder.
February 19, 2024

Planful's no slouch

Cory Abrahamson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Planful is integral in our month-end close process as we are able to use the software to consolidate our financials
  • Financial reporting is easy to use and once there is an understanding of column and row sets, building custom reports is a breeze
  • Forecasting via the Structured Planning module is easy to setup and once completed, the templates can be updated very easily
  • User setup can be confusing, security attributes can be tricky to get correct
  • Password reset does not work, we now have single sign on setup though so this is no longer an issue
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Planning templates - bottoms up planning
  • Integration with Excel
  • offline planning in excel
  • ability to add attributes after configuration
  • reliance on third parties for application audits and best practices
  • charging for sandbox refreshes
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • The Planful Cloud EPM Suite does a great job keeping all of our actual, forecast, and budget data together in one place. Loading new data into the application is fairly straight forward and allows us to quickly provide reports and analyses to our senior leadership team each month/quarter.
  • The Planful Spotlight Excel-Add In Tool is helpful for users who are more familiar with building and creating reports in Excel. While the reporting module in the core application is very easy to use and navigate, often times our team will utilize the Excel add-in tool to build more complex reports using the data from Planful as many of us tend to have more experience with excel based reporting.
  • Using Planful has allowed us to drastically reduce the number of days it takes to close each month. We quickly load data via the data load rule, use the consolidations module to input any adjusting journal entries, and from there we are able to jump right into financial reporting and analysis.
  • The speed of the application has sometimes been a bit slow, particularly at year end.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Phenomenal customer service, intending to build more than just business relationships
  • Very fast updating of actual data following integration with our ERP system
  • Strong focus on addressing missing features, providing a constantly evolving product
  • Could better intertwine workforce planning with the financial planning environment
  • Could be easier to plan or load Capex projections
  • More dynamic planning training (have been working this; many other "areas of improvement" have been mitigated by product developments
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Support: They assign a technical expert to your team, which we have used extensively. They are always very responsive.
  • The spotlight XL add-in is a great tool and has made reporting extremely efficient. So easy to update with changes in your data.
  • Continued enhancements in leading-edge technology - Ex. AI
  • Multiple currency calculations/ consolidations support IFRS accounting
  • Ability to inactivate old data dimensions
  • Reporting - Need ability to expand all/collapse all lines easily
  • Reporting - Formula exceptions added to a report do not update when information is revised.
  • Automatic Sandbox refreshes initiated by Planful - When Planful does an automatic refresh of the sandbox environment, it copies any Boomi/integration connections.
  • Limited to 8 data dimensions in core application
  • Add more API connectors to make data integration easier
  • ability to transfer sandbox tests to production environment
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Integration with other platforms - payroll, ERP, etc.
  • Real-time scenario analysis
  • Live data from the ERP allows for quick response to business changes
  • Data quality and repeatability
  • Ease of use for report writing
  • Behind the scenes interface is somewhat clunky for a first-time user
  • The login process is not streamlined. I have to go through the company's website vs. just going to a favorite in my browser
December 13, 2023

Planful is NOT painful

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Workforce planning is amazing. We can personalize each record, and updating is very simple.
  • The ability to have a rolling forecast is very useful for us in an overhead department. It enables us to pull up information on what we are forecasting for company IT costs for the upcoming years.
  • The flexibility of the program and the reporting has been extremely helpful for us.
  • They customer service is 2nd to NONE!
  • Their willingness to improve their tool based on feedback from business user groups, customer advisory boards and their planful engage program is absolutely amazing.
  • Dashboards need improvements. It would be nice to have a VIEW ONLY ability to push a dashboard to select users at the top level of finances for the group.
  • Dated Hierarchies are cumbersome and not as helpful as they could be. There is so much opportunity with dated hierarchies, especially during re-organizations and budgeting.
Jennie Rush | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Workforce Planning Enhancements have been huge for our dept.
  • Support has increased significantly since we started four years ago
  • They are able to be used on Cloud
  • Providing customers monthly releases of enhanced/new products
  • Always working with their customers on how they can better the tool
  • Need to make some manual processes automatic
  • Would like to allow hierarchies to be scenario specific
  • Would like a PowerBI integration
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • GL level forecasting/budgeting
  • Push Button month end reporting
  • Hierarchy control
  • Structure planning is very clunky and does not give give enough flexibility to make mass changes
  • Reporting struggles mixing variables together in the same report. If you want a combination between time and scenario there is no great way to make a joint scenario (We have had a support ticket out for a couple weeks to solve this with no great solution in place yet).
  • Getting to certain reports requires an understanding of MDX
  • Sandbox has been removed as a portion of the product and is now an upcharge meaning there is no room to test anymore without paying the absurd amount requested. Ours was removed mid contract.
  • Support can be slow for issues that seem like they should already have solutions for
February 09, 2023

Planful Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • aesthetically pleasing for business partners to look at
  • nice formatting options
  • user friendly for basic tasks
  • more attributes
  • vendor level
  • better error message diagnosis
Robert Picard | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Creating forecasts for the month, quarter, and year
  • Creating new variables by using variables pre-defined and that are new in the system
  • Having a very simple setup in the reports section - not straying away from the old Excel model which most people are used to. I can speak for a lot of people when I say that tools that look new can easily be frightening! 😅
  • I think that the load times for creating or deleting scenarios could be faster. nI addition, if they could start out by not being locked, that would be nice too.
  • Sometimes, when I copy from Google Sheets and paste in Planful, I get a weird error string that doesn't tell me where I went wrong. Having something similar to MS Excel which says what might be causing the error would be super helpful as well.
  • I think emails saying that a scenario has been deleted (if deleted by somebody else) would be helpful in case that communication is not sent out or received.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Keeps up-to-date with real time edits and amounts when it comes to reporting
  • Very detailed options in the structured planning tab
  • Detailed reports that really help me see the numbers
  • Makes it easy to find help/tutorials when I am confused
  • Sometimes, too many options can make things confusing
  • I like the detail, but sometimes mix things up, especially when using the reports tab
  • Structured planning tab is the most confusing part
December 07, 2022

Planful Review 2022

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • DLR - upload is fast and easy if it's done right.
  • Our consultant creates lots of reports to suit our business needs such as employee summary report.
  • It's easy to format the reports.
  • Planful is limited to just do reporting.
  • It needs to combine both actual and forecast scenarios into one screen.
  • We need to use it more to do analysis on top line such as revenue, Net revenue and gross margin besides bottom on people.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reporting in Spotlight and the PCR is best in class.
  • Alternative Fx scenario analysis is very good and fast
  • Consolidation is seamless and never breaks
  • The spotlight Excel add-in breaks sometimes and needs to be reinstalled.
  • New features are great, but users care more about the existing features being flawless.
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