Prophix Continues to Shine
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Prophix to complete our annual budget including personnel planning (salary & benefits) as well as capital expenditures. We also complete quarterly actual vs budget reporting on a cost center basis in order to validate expenditures and budget alignment and analysis. Using the Row notes on this report allows us to download the report and summarize the responses.
Pros
- There is a wonderful end user adoption of the solution due to is ease of use and simple data input screens.
- The solution does consolidations very well without the need to export to Excel to get a total view of the budget.
- The data storage and retrieval (drill across manager) makes variance analysis simple through having the data all in one location.
Cons
- I always struggle with the name sets and verifying that we have the right time values for the cubes. I am always afraid that I will lose data if I don't have them set correctly.
Return on Investment
- Budgeting is a simple task once the end users enter the information. It is easy to update or edit and get real time updates based on changes.
- It definitely sped up the Budgeting Process.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Axiom Software by Syntellis Performance Solutions, Vena and Fiserv Prologue Financials
Other Software Used
FloQast, Ascend












