TrustRadius Insights for Prophix are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Cost Allocation Efficiency: Users have expressed that the system simplifies cost allocation between departments and divisions once the initial setup is done, aiding in budgeting efforts.
Personnel Planning Simplification: Reviewers have found personnel planning to be straightforward and easy to maintain, with all calculations set up and applied automatically for new staff additions.
Flexible Report Creation: Customers appreciate the system's flexibility for report creation, requiring basic parameters and accessing financial data via a data view, which helps save storage space.
End User Experience Enhancement: Users value the platform's ease of use in running allocations, personnel budgeting, management tasks, ad-hoc analysis, making budget streamlining and report building more manageable.
Efficient Financial Management Features: The system allows for easy structuring of legal entities, managing multiple currency organizations efficiently automating a large portion of monthly consolidation processes helping streamline financial management tasks.
YFB uses Prophix for our financial reporting because, when we upgraded our ERP system, it did not include a financial reporting package. This was our initial need, but we moved into annual revenue and headcount planning, resulting in an annual budgeted forecast. We will be bringing in more data, such as sales and production data, to support 2027 fiscal year planning. We also have all GL transactional data linked, allowing us to drill down to the root reason for the actual costs trending in the direction they are.
Pros
Ease of drilling into the root data.
Ability to create new users and copying access levels from a current user to new users.
Comparison between actual month over month, year over year, actual vs budget.
Cons
None at this time based upon the current needs of YFB.
Likelihood to Recommend
Ease of use, and the new AI interface capability make it even easier to integrate with mid-size ERP systems.
Platform: Prophix One , Cloud Users: 4 admin and ~100 licensed users across Finance, FP&A, and selected business managers Coverage: Enterprise budgeting and forecasting across departments, cost centres, programs/projects, and funding streams; consolidated reporting for leadership and external stakeholders. Budgeting (annual & in‑year updates): Bottom‑up submissions with standard templates, driver‑based assumptions, and controlled rollups to divisional. Workflow & controls: Guided task assignments, due‑date tracking, and audit trails for submissions, approvals, and late changes.
Pros
Calculating the salary grid involves incorporating three different pension plan structures, as well as applying the salary and wage increase rates defined in the union collective agreements for approximately 800 unionized employees. In addition, separate compensation adjustments are required for non‑union employees, including managers and above.
Cons
The reporting format in Prophix offers limited flexibility, and there are several constraints when designing reports
Likelihood to Recommend
Prophix is well suited for structured budgeting, forecasting, and workforce planning, especially in organizations with complex salary grids, multiple pension plans, and union vs. non‑union compensation structures. It excels in workflow control, centralized reporting, and scenario analysis.
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Verified User
Analyst in Finance and Accounting (501-1000 employees)
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
I have and am happy to provide a recommendation for Prophix. The overall solution and the customer service are wonderful, and I could not ask for a better partner.
Before to Prophix we were using a very outdated application called COGNOS. Now after getting into Prophix it makes life easier for Month end consolidation, reporting in Actuals + Finance planning, revenue planning, Capex and Opex planning and personnel planning. One application for all what we need with flexibility
Pros
Plan consolidation, Allocation rules, Integration of Personnel planning to Finance post
Cons
Reporting and functionality if possible for new users
We use Prophix as our data mining software for our institution. We use it as a consolidation tool for our financial statements.
Pros
Transactional Details.
Great support team.
Very Responsive.
Cons
N/A
Likelihood to Recommend
It is a great data mining and consolidation tool. It pulls the transaction details for the period. We use it as a main source for our budgeting process each year.
VU
Verified User
Professional in Finance and Accounting (201-500 employees)
We are just starting our journey with Prophix but we will be using it for financial reporting, WIP reporting, budgeting/forecasting and ad hoc reporting.
Pros
Gathers data from multiple sources
Allows for cross sectional reporting with multiple variables
Provides detailed insights on specific data sets
Cons
will update as we go through the process
Likelihood to Recommend
Again, early in the process but provides much needed depth to the analysis and automates many of the tasks we have done manually previously.
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Verified User
C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting (201-500 employees)
We use Prophix for budgeting and forecasting. We were building 30+ budgets individually through excel and it was very time consuming to build and double check as each was different. Prophix brings our data into one place and allows for easier budgeting and forecasting for our organization. We plan to move forward with the account reconciliation piece next.
Pros
It consolidates data into one space very well.
It allows for flexibility when budgeting and forecasting
It also allows for scenario planning
The functionality that brings actuals into the budgeting process is very helpful
Cons
the formula syntax is hard to follow, wish it was more like excel
building out reports can be confusing and seems like it could be more straightforward
trying to follow why a number changed can also be troubling, especially if you weren't expecting it
Likelihood to Recommend
Prophix is great for consolidating data into one place and building a repeatable budgeting process when building out multiple budgets. Bringing in actual data which then can be pushed forward into budgets is very useful. The system isn't always flexible in one off scenarios or if there is a lot of variation between budgets or actuals.
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Verified User
Director in Finance and Accounting (201-500 employees)
We use Prophix Financial Consolidation and it has significantly improved our governance and control over the entire consolidation process. One of our biggest challenges was the lack of a reliable audit trail, and Prophix has addressed that —providing clear traceability from base data to final numbers. The automated foreign exchange calculations are a great bonus, and the user-friendly interface makes it easy to navigate and manage tasks efficiently.
Pros
Finance Consolidation
User Friendly system
Customer management
Likelihood to Recommend
It's a solid cloud-based financial consolidation tool that scales effectively as your business and its needs evolve.
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Verified User
Program Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
Prophix is used as budget planning and consolidation tool within our organization. It is aimed to provide smooth budgeting process through different rounds of submission while ensuring robust data accuracy. We have used the tool at our team as a consolidation point and that can run our consolidation model and potentially connect to all of our other site's team Prophix model in the future
Pros
able to create automation process that allows uploading data in a fast manner
have a large "how to" library that is very helpful for beginners
the support team is always on point to provide real time answers
Cons
would be great to edit/add dimensions to cubes after they have been published
would be nice to have options to edit multiple dimension attributes at once
ability to connect to powerBI
Likelihood to Recommend
the Prophix is well suited for any budget related exercises, however, may not be best suited for building costing models where it would involve many ad hoc changes on rolling basis. For ad hoc changes, excel is still more flexible than Prophix models due to its less restrictions in nature
VU
Verified User
Employee in Finance and Accounting (5001-10,000 employees)