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What is Prophix?

Prophix One, a Financial Performance Platform, is used to improve the speed and accuracy of decision-making within a harmonized user experience. To reduce complexity and uncertainty, the software offers automated insights and planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and consolidation functionalities.

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April 08, 2024
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Prophix for us

9 out of 10
April 01, 2024
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We use it for forecast, reporting and budgeting in our company that turns out monthly, quarterly and yearly reports. We also have a very …
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Popular Features

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  • Management Reporting (175)
    9.4
    94%
  • Financial budgeting (184)
    9.3
    93%
  • Management reporting (181)
    9.3
    93%
  • Forecasting (176)
    8.7
    87%

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What is Prophix?

Prophix One, a Financial Performance Platform, is used to improve the speed and accuracy of decision-making within a harmonized user experience. To reduce complexity and uncertainty, the software offers automated insights and planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and consolidation…

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

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

7.3
Avg 8.0

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

9
Avg 8.3

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.9
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.

6.8
Avg 7.6

Access Control and Security

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

8.9
Avg 8.7

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

9.6
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

9.1
Avg 8.3

Consolidation and Close

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

8.4
Avg 8.0

Financial Reporting and Compliance

Financial statements and regulatory filings

8.4
Avg 8.2

Analytics and Reporting

Dashboards and scorecards for KPI monitoring and benchmarking

7.9
Avg 8.0

Integration

Ability to integrate with external applications.

9.3
Avg 8.3
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Product Details

What is Prophix?

Prophix One, a Financial Performance Platform, is used to improve the speed and accuracy of decision-making within a harmonized user experience.

To reduce complexity and uncertainty, the software offers automated insights and planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and consolidation functionalities. Prophix is a private company, backed by Hg Capital, an investor in software and services businesses. Additional information can be found at www.prophix.com.  


Prophix 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
  • Supported: XBRL support for regulatory filing

Analytics and Reporting Features

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

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 PDF
  • Supported: Report Versioning
  • Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling

Data Discovery and Visualization Features

  • Supported: Predictive Analytics
  • Supported: Support for Machine Learning models

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

Mobile Capabilities Features

  • Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access

Prophix Screenshots

Screenshot of Chart Insights, one of the AI Insights capabilities that utilizes Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing to provide enhanced business awareness.  Chart Insights extends the important details contained within dashboards, and analyzes the complete dataset behind the dashboard, automatically surfacing the data relationships not obvious in dashboard visualizations alone. It then provides a summary of key performance metrics found buried within Prophix charts.  It also summarizes the important insights in plain English.Screenshot of Prophix's self-serve dashboards and visualizations, directly integrated with data, workflow tasks, announcements, and external URLs and databases.  Dashboard Studio helps users to be informed and make better business decisions.Screenshot of detailed interactive charts and graphs that Prophix offers to uncover insights. Prophix’s visual analytics are linked directly to data with transaction details.  There is no need to input the numbers.  Prophix does this tedious work, automatically.Screenshot of Prophix’s Workflow Manager, used to assign tasks to users and facilitate approvals across the business.  Stakeholder input can be captured directly with the ability to add comments and notes in a single unified database.Screenshot of Cell Comments allow users to add supporting details like notes and attachments to data.  Since comments are stored with the data, they can be viewed in any template along with their trailing history. Cell Comment Reports can also be generated to show all comments from any data view in one convenient report.

Prophix Videos

Prophix One, a Financial Performance Platform for the next generation of finance. This video describes: - How to achieve better financial performance, agility, and accuracy - The advantage of one integrated platform over disparate applications - New strategies for tackling eve...
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Prophix makes it easier to budget and plan. This video shows how you to use Prophix to build OpEx budgets, drill into detailed planning, spread budgets over time for seasonality, and justify budgets to other users without all the back and forth.
Cash flow is more than just what's coming in and out of a business. Strategically planning a business's cash flow can take it to new heights.
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, a world-class ski resort located in Teton Village, Wyoming, uses Prophix's software to automate their budgeting and build detailed forecasts - to the extent that they can predict their number of visitors and staff the resort accordingly.
Spacesaver Corporation, a custom manufacturer of mobile library shelving, art rack storage, and evidence lockers, uses software from Prophix to automate their budgeting, reporting, and profitability analysis.
Will-Burt Company, a manufacturer of integrated towers and masts, used Prophix's software to replace FRx, to automate their budgeting, reporting, and forecasting, and to develop advanced dashboards that highlight their company's performance at-a-glance.

Prophix Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationMobile Web
Supported CountriesDenmark, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Benelux, Italy, Brazil
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

Prophix One, a Financial Performance Platform, is used to improve the speed and accuracy of decision-making within a harmonized user experience. To reduce complexity and uncertainty, the software offers automated insights and planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and consolidation functionalities.

Vena, Planful, and Jedox are common alternatives for Prophix.

Reviewers rate Drill-down analysis and Responsive Design for Web Access and Financial data consolidation highest, with a score of 9.6.

The most common users of Prophix are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Prophix Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)5%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)95%
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September 12, 2020

Prophix Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently, Prophix is being used by our Accounting and Finance teams. All of our budgeting and rolling forecasts are done within Prophix. We are now able to easily budget & forecast based on actual historical data that we bring into Prophix from Great Plains on a daily basis. It also uploads any data that we have collected from outside sources from the field to be used within our budgeting and forecasting. In addition, we produce multiple finance reports for internal and external purposes using Prophix. Our data that is brought into Prophix from Great Plains and our budget data housed within the program are used to quickly produce monthly financial reports.
  • Prophix has great customer service and quickly replies to inquires.
  • User friendly and easily learn by all different level of users
  • A simple solution that solves multiple problems
  • The ability to lock or make certain dimensions uneditable
  • More fine-tuned user rolls or security
Prophix is a great solution for any company that is still using Excel for budget reporting or forecasting. Prophix is a user-friendly solution to get away from Excel. It reduces the likelihood of human error, data becoming corrupt, in addition to the need for long and complicated formulas. Prophix also allows a company that has multiple divisions or children companies to budget and forecast in different ways that suit that company's needs but then be able to bring all the different data together to create a consolidated budget.
September 10, 2020

Prophix Fan

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our Finance and Accounting dept uses Prophix for financial reporting, annual budget, and monthly forecasting. We are able to create our monthly financial package with the click of a button. Some of our other department heads now can go into Prophix, see their department's financial reports, and drill into the data!
  • We have a nightly process that runs automatically to import our data from GP; we can also do this manually as needed.
  • One source! Everyone gets to see the same data without changing Excel formulas!
  • Workflow tasks help organized duties and track where things are in the process.
  • Creating reports in Prophix is easy; formatting is almost the same as it is in Excel.
  • All reports can be exported to Excel or PDF.
  • The only negative I can think of is the Administrative functions are for a single user. Although this is a great control, it is sometimes painful when only one person can add an account or change named sets.
Prophix makes budgeting and reporting a breeze. Creating non-financial reports and storing non-financial data is easy. Detailed Planning Manager allows for importing payroll data and calculating next year's budgeted payroll including taxes and benefits based on those actuals.
September 08, 2020

Report Worthy

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use Prophix for budgeting each year and for all our financial reporting. We package our individual reports in their report binders to submit to the Board of Trustees as well. We use it across the entire company.
  • Amazing implementation
  • Ease of use
  • Great continued support
  • More data view availability to create without breaking
We find it great for month-end reporting and it can be updated frequently.
September 07, 2020

Great system!

Rob Perry | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[It's] Being used by the finance department for clinic managers and regional VPs. It is also being used by the accounting department for the pre-close processes and used by executives and ownership for month-end and year-end reporting. It is helping us ensure accurate and timely reporting and speed up our monthly close processes.
  • Planning
  • Reporting
  • Forecasting
  • Month end review
  • Better training for new users
  • Fix web version bugs
  • Unlock more formatting options
Prophix is great for anything financial - including close process, budgeting, what-if analysis, forecasting, financial reporting, and dashboards for our operations users. We are still learning how we can use it for data beyond the financial.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Prophix as our main Financial Reporting tool. It's being used by our entire finance and corporate accounting team. We were previously using Microsoft's FRx (which has long been unsupported by MS), and we found the combination of price and functionality of Prophix were very hard to beat. In choosing Prophix, we looked at not only a good replacement for FRx, but a product that would be able to enhance our reporting tools.
  • Flexibility to include accounts that are not part of the accounting software gives us the ability to include non-financial information on our standard reports. Examples that we use in our industry are unit count and $ volume (we are in financial services, so each product has a $ amount that is not necessarily tied to revenue).
  • The way the account model is set up allows us to add accounts to all reports at once - we don't need to recreate each report just because there's a new account being used.
  • The ability to slice reports on any combination of account, department, company code, etc. gives us flexibility in reporting that was never possible in FRx. We sometimes need a store-by-store report, which in FRx was never practical. In Prophix, it's as simple as dragging "StoreID" into a column or row.
  • We have had some difficulty in setting up the link to our general ledger. This has led to some project delays, but we have been able to resolve all of our issues to this point.
  • It's not really easy to set up a report where comparative months are in columns. We do have a report set up, but it's not as intuitive as I would like to see.
  • It's really hard to think of any real drawbacks or areas for improvement, especially since Prophix is continuing to provide additional functionality with new releases.
Any company that has multiple entities and/or stores would see an immediate benefit, as Prophix has the ability to slice and dice the financial and non-financial data on any dimension (whether it's company code, store code, etc.) Multiple entity reporting is extremely easy, and also very flexible. Our organization has 140 stores in 1 entity, and 3 other entities that don't have stores. With Prophix, we are able to generate reporting that gives us both consolidated and consolidating financials with 1 click.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Prophix for the whole organization. It is the budgeting system that we use for each department to check, daily, their budget to actuals spending/variances. We also rely on it during the development of our fiscal year budget. And we also use it to forecast the cost of our labor.
  • Drill Across, feature that allows users to access underlying details of actuals, even with links to the actual scan of an invoice in our ERP system
  • Line Item Schedule, feature that allows us to detail budget lines
  • Infoflex, allows us to target specific data to test scenarios
  • Cell comments are currently not able to be viewed in a report or downloaded
  • It is currently not possible to copy and paste from excel to Prophix in the Line Item Details
  • It is currently not possible to know what Cube you are in from viewing the report or adhoc
Prophix is well suited for companies that develop budgets at the line item level. It is also well suited for forecasting and developing different scenarios. Prophix is a robust, versatile system for people who like to get into budget details and develop custom reports.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At Urschel Laboratories, Prophix is used for multiple applications including financial reporting to all department heads within the division, global consolidation of 18 foreign sales offices, Currency Exchange using 11 difference currencies, budgeting/forecasting, and analytics of the financial and non-financial results of the organization. Outside of the finance area, Prophix will be used for quoting, order, and shipment analysis by customer, product, sales representative, and region. Prophix is our analytical tool to solve all business reporting and analytical needs. Additionally it allows us to combine this information in a common set up metrics for management of all levels to monitor business performance.
  • Prophix is extremely flexible. Anything you can do in Excel, can be done in Prophix only 100% more efficiently while allowing additional analytics that an excel version would not easily allow.
  • The business processes within Prophix are easy to use and applicable across multiple types of business data. Users can analyze, flex, adjust, forecast, and use actual data to develop quick "what if" scenarios for a future time frame. Driver based forecasting becomes easy to create and monitor.
  • The user interface is easy to learn. Template designers and ad-hoc analysis tools are an "Excel" like feel that provides comfort for many users. Formulas and formatting within report templates are easy to learn because of their consistency with Excel.
  • Report templates can be easily bound into any type of output that is required; an Excel work book, Word document, PowerPoint presentation, PDF file, or SharePoint site. This allows for easy creation of management presentations on a recurring basis.
  • Clean looking visual dashboards can be created using the template designer and charting capabilities. These visual displays are drillable, which allow you to link multiple templates into a user driven experience to start with a visual and drill into the details behind the visualization.
  • Prophix is always improving their product and striving to provide those features that customers want. Prophix utilizes a feed back forum that allows customers to provide input into future features that will become available in the product.
  • Items that may have been a struggle in the past have been resolved...for example, a recent release featured a re-design of the template designer. The new functionality made it easier to create template formatting and retain that formatting when adding rows or other data sets.
Everyone can benefit from utilizing the features within Prophix. The only limitations are the creativity of your mind. Key questions to ask during the selection process include understanding the training that occurs during implementation. Prophix is focused on making this a product that is expandable by the end user, meaning users don't have to contract professional services every time a new model is desired. Understanding from the competition what is required to expand the use of models is a key differentiator in this space. Companies that encourage end users to take full ownership of the product provide more ultimate value. If necessary, Prophix can assist with model expansion, but they want the end user to be able to be self sufficient, if that is desired. Another key question to understand in the selection process is the amount of IT involvement. Prophix can be a product wholly owned by the finance office. Required IT involvement in using or creating new models within Prophix is extremely low, which allows finance to be self sufficient and provide value to the business without relying on the IT department for support.
April 04, 2020

Fantastic

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The entire organization uses Prophix for budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and to provide non-Accounting employees financial insight. By adding Prophix, we have automated the annual budget process and removed issues around formula errors and multiple spreadsheets.
  • Automate the budget process by utilizing workflows.
  • Ability to drill down into the details of a line item on the financial statements.
  • Mitigates keying/formula errors in spreadsheets.
  • The tool is similar to Excel, however, it has some differences that take time to get used too.
  • Building the model usually takes consulting hours that are an additional cost.
Prophix is great once you have the model built and want to run different scenarios. The tool can easily copy data, tweak a few inputs, and re-run in minutes. The better your company is setup for divvying out responsibilities by departments, the easier it will be to use the workflow functionality.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Only used by the Finance Department. Used to replace our old legacy FP&A tool that no longer has any vendor support in 2 major areas:
  • Adhoc Reporting
  • Budgeting
  • Ease of maintaining account dimensions in hierarchical relationships within the Data Cube AKA Model Manager without requiring too many technicalities IT department intervention.
  • Adhoc Analysis provides fast slicing and dicing of information in a Pivot table style Finance users are accustomed to.
  • The ability to reuse/modify existing data views to redeploy in new reports makes creating new reports easier.
  • Dashboarding features and aesthetic options are quite limited compared with PowerBI.
  • Template Studio (Report Designer) tries to mimic Excel look and feel but lacks many Excel shortcut keys and formatting options.
  • Report loading performance may deteriorate substantially when a report template is derived from multiple data views.
They emphasize clients transitioning away from trying to manage too many spreadsheets. But from our experience in our budget implementation, we have budget information that must be referenced to offline spreadsheet sources which is not a feature currently supported by Prophix if the intention was to have users try to enter budget information using the cloud version.

They currently have a workaround for such clients for this particular scenario by introducing an Excel-Add on plug-in. What this does is it can import/export existing data views created from the cube onto a local spreadsheet. However, this feature only works for the data view, and not for Template Studio Reports, which is where the bulk of the Excel formatting/functionalities are required by users.

If clients are not fussy about the limited dashboard options and don't care too much about Excel functionalities when trying to replicate Excel-like reports within Prophix environment, then I would recommend it. Tries to replicate the look and feel of Excel but lacking.





April 03, 2020

HR Business Partner

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Prophix to organize and develop our yearly budget for the whole organization. We are an open book so having a system help us to organize our budgets and share them has been great. It helps us to fine-tune our labor plan all the way down to variable labor. Our company is using so many different channels to organize our sales plans and labor plans, so having software that helps us to bring them together and to run reports from it truly helps.
  • Customer Service
  • Labor Planning Structure.
  • Cash Flow Planning
If you have a very detailed structure when it comes to planning your budget, whether it is 6 months or 12 months, Prophix is able to support any scenario. They can copy what you have done in the past so you don't have to duplicate your work.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Prophix is used as our main internal reporting tool which houses plan and forecasts along with actual data from ledger. The system is mainly used by Accounting and Finance but insight from department heads is gathered regularly. Reports are sent out on a monthly basis for review so all members of our support center are familiar. We are also looking to drive accountability by adding our general managers to the system.
  • Reporting.
  • Planning.
  • No IT needed.
  • Glitches in areas like process manager.
  • Not overly customizable.
  • No offline user for cloud customers.
  • No Microsoft integration.
  • Not able to make data connections without Prophix.
Prophix reporting is dynamic and a huge time saver. The implementation left much to be desired. We paid a bunch of money to have Prophix come to our office, and I had more knowledge through my experience. The cost is also a prohibitive factor. Planning logic can be used to save a ton of time, but it does take time to learn. Prophix has major flexibility and is wide open to the imagination, but it does require a lot of training or good old trial and error.
Linda Lowery | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Prophix is primarily used for our consolidated corporate reporting. It is used primarily by our Finance teams. Our main cube performs consolidations and eliminations entries for high-level corporate reporting. Budget and forecast are input into the main cube for reporting against. We have an additional cube to track WIP for capital projects. A DPM cube is used for tracking personnel changes and planning.
  • Easy format for quick query of data and analysis through Adhocs
  • Ease of use in building processes to manipulate larger sets of data
  • Consolidation and eliminations process need improvement - not great visibility for audit
  • Report building can be messy for formatting. Small changes can break formats easy when updating reports.
I believe there is a lot of flexibility in the setup and design that can be used for building forecast models within Prophix although we are not currently using this functionality. The ability to build out workflows for inputs from various departments through Excel files is a great design. It allows users to contribute without the need of having to be users of the system and have in-depth knowledge of Prophix.

I think that the consolidation of financials is not as robust as it could possibly be. In hindsight, it might be handled better by an ERP depending on the system one is using.
January 15, 2020

Exactly what we needed!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Prophix is used mainly in our finance department at this time. It's used for monthly financials, board reporting, budgeting, personnel tracking, etc. We are planning to purchase more licenses to roll out to our sales group in the next month. Prophix has helped our company become much more efficient and allowed us to have more consistency of reporting. Ad hoc reports that would have taken a couple hours to do now take five minutes!
  • Ad hoc reporting: This has made a significant difference in the turn around time of reporting.
  • Budgeting: We were able to cut out 2 1/2 months of our budget cycle because of all of the efficiencies we gained from Prophix.
  • I would like to see the ability to view reports similar to an Excel file. Within Prophix, you cannot view a report with different tabs; however, you can create a report binder that will take several different reports and combine them into one as an exported file.
  • Sometimes I have wanted to be able to link one report to another, and you cannot do that in Prophix.
Prophix has been great for ad hoc reporting, monthly reporting, board reporting, budgeting, etc. I am still in the process of exploring all that Prophix can do, but over the last year that our company has used Prophix, I can't recommend it enough! We had requests for data that would take two days to pull together. With Prophix, it would take maybe five minutes to gather all the data. The ability to drill across and view transaction level detail when I'm reviewing the monthly statements has been invaluable. I would spend so much time going back and forth between different platforms to try to look something up, and it takes no time to view the drill across detail.
December 31, 2019

Prophix is excellent!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our Financial Planning and Analysis department uses it to report on home office expenses company-wide. We also use it for budgeting company-wide. It replaced previous software that we use for budgeting that was in an unstable environment and not user-friendly. Prophix is much more intuitive and has a modern look. Our users appreciate the ability to look at expenses at a high level, and then if they have questions, they can drill across on those sums for detailed transactions.The Prophix Software is very versatile, starting with it creating a web-based platform. This was important for our company and allows the software to be updated quarterly without issue. We are able to use Prophix for Expense tracking, Expense and Capital planning, reforecasting, Compensation planning, Project tracking, Expense allocation, GAAP PLOB reporting, and still have several more tasks to implement through Prophix. The data can be sliced and diced many ways, and each user is able to do it however they like. It is easy to create or run existing reports. We have made many of our processes more efficient, and Prophix has allowed us to save more time than you can imagine.
  • Prophix allows non-finance employees to create their own reports so they can look at the expenses hitting their cost centers. They can view at a high level, or just click on the total to dive into the detailed transactions.
  • The Prophix consultants have been very patient and are extraordinarily knowledgeable about every aspect of the software. They can always answer our questions and if they aren't sure of the answer, they talk to their engineers and get back to us quickly.
  • We've had a few issues with our drill-across view being functional, but they are working to fix the issue.
  • There are so many options within Prophix that at times, it can be overwhelming. I think it’s necessary to have a few Admin to create reports and assist users, so that the users do not have to know how to use everything.
We are able to use Prophix for Expense tracking, Expense and Capital planning, reforecasting, Compensation planning, Project tracking, Expense allocation, GAAP PLOB reporting, and still have several more tasks to implement through Prophix. Prophix is not built for detailed transaction information. You are able to "drill across" to see the transaction detail, but you cannot create reports from it.
November 13, 2019

Prophix Review

Karen Lawhead, CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using it for financial statements by division and cost center, as well as budgeting and WIP reporting.
  • Ease of use.
  • Cube building is easy.
  • The versatility of making changes.
  • The variety of input formats for collaborators not familiar with the software.
Prophix is great for budgeting across multiple business line entities.
November 06, 2019

Great Tool

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize Prophix across the organization, though it is most actively used by Finance and Accounting. The department heads utilize Prophix both at budget time and to review each month's financial results. Information is pushed to the department heads, but they also have the ability to log-in any time and utilize more advanced features of the software, such as drilling down to the details that make up a given P&L balance.
  • Process streamline: the financial information distribution process can be automated.
  • Easy design: the concepts behind the report design are straightforward, and lead to quick creation of additional reports.
  • Offers cloud version: there is no issue with running updates, as they are done behind the scenes.
  • Less reliance on Excel: the budget is now housed within Prophix rather than within multiple spreadsheets.
  • Graph editing: for advanced graph editing, Excel is still more capable.
This is very useful for entities with many companies and departments in their structure. Access can be granted to users for only the areas they are responsible for. These permission settings can be updated by the Administrator Users (of which I am one) directly without the involvement of IT. Some of the benefits/features may not be as necessary for smaller entities.
Amy Sallee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We have just finished with our implementation of Prophix. As we continued through our model development, the seemingly limitless potential of Prophix was astonishing as compared to our previous budgeting software. To 'reframe the usual', we incorporated our entire job cost module including metrics for analysis. This allows both a macro view of our financial data and enhances the analytics by including visibility at a granular level.
  • Due to the complexity of our model, the OLAP functionality allows me to slice and dice the data as needed.
  • The implementation process and team were phenomenal to work with. It was an on-site collaborative effort in which our specific needs were recognized, then strategized and ultimately developed into our model exactly as we requested.
  • The reporting functionality and flexibility in Prophix is far superior to our main ERP.
  • At this time, there are not enough hours in the day to fully explore using this application to its full extent.
Prophix has significantly reduced staff time manually assembling reports and analysis from varied sources. Financial reporting provides more depth to division managers with much better visibility into financial performance indicators. Budgeting and personnel planning are easily comparable to actuals with the broad reporting tools offered by Prophix. The possibility of future functionality is infinite.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently using Prophix to help streamline our budget process. We used to use Excel and it was a very timely process. We will also use it for forecasting, job performance, and month-end reporting.
  • Streamlines processes.
  • Creates professional-looking reports.
  • Let's you look/analyze data quickly and in different ways.
  • Each report is custom. No out of the box reports.
  • During the initial build, it will take a lot of your time. Not necessarily a bad thing just wasn't expected to be as involved as I currently am.
Prophix is great for building professional-looking reports that include things like:
  • KPI's
  • Bank covenants
  • Income Statements
  • Cash Flows
  • Balance Sheets
August 02, 2019

KISS with Prophix

Sharon Hess | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Wilderness Society uses Prophix for budgeting revenue and expenses, reporting, allocations, and one unique process where we allocate staff salaries based on planned time allocations to projects and tasks. We also use Prophix for staff planning. We have one administrator and one advanced user. Budget to actuals reports are sent out to budget managers monthly, and Prophix is used throughout the year for adhoc analyses and for producing reports for Finance, the Executive Team, and the Governing Council.
  • The flexibility of being able to create cubes to model your organization is a strength.
  • The ability to create allocations in Prophix is a strength.
  • The ability to create templates for standard reports makes producing report fast and easy.
  • Fast implementation time is a plus for Prophix
  • In the future, it would nice to be able to preview an adhoc query result before committing to it. Sometimes waiting for the query results to finish rendering is a pain, especially if you realize that you need to change the view once you finally see it. This only applies to very large adhoc results however. 90% of the time, the wait time is very short.
The ability to create cubes specific to your organization along with the ability to create multiple budget versions, makes Prophix a terrific tool for budgeting and forecasting. The software is easy to use, and the adhoc tool makes analyzing data a snap, especially if you like to dump data to Excel and play with pivot tables. Where we found Prophix less appropriate is for managers who develop detailed project plans using lots of words or descriptions. Our conservation managers develop detailed project plans with dollars attached to them which then have to be translated into a format with can import into Prophix.
August 02, 2019

Analytical Insights

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently, Prophix has only been used in our finance department to run financials. We are also working to implement job costing and projection models to assist with planning jobs while they are in progress.
  • Prophix responds well to customer feedback and is able to roll out quarterly changes that incorporate customer requests.
  • Allows you to view your data from multiple angles
  • Support is always available to help with questions or problems
  • There are some instances when Prophix takes you to an error screen instead of preforming what you wanted it to do. This [should] be fixed.
We have used Prophix to project manpower.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Prophix for monthly financial reporting, planning, and forecasting sales for use in production planning. Prophix is being used by the management team for reviewing monthly financials. Sales and Marketing use the system to forecast sales and review changes in purchasing patterns of customers. The use of Prophix has enabled the Accounting department to get financial data in the hands of management timely and provide drill down analysis to answer questions on variances.
  • Prophix is very easy to get up and running. Very little IT involvement is needed to maintain the system.
  • Jobs to update the cubes can be set to run at night, so when you arrive in the morning, financial data has already been updated. During the monthly close, we also manually update cubes during the day without issues.
  • Security can be set on the cube, or dimensions within the cube.
  • Web version does not have the same functionality as the smart client. Prophix continues to add additional functionality to the web version, but currently not the same.
Prophix is easy to design and implement. Can implement in weeks, not months. Pricing is affordable, and very IT involvement needed. Business is the owner of the software, which allows for controll of financial data.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Prophix was initially rolled out just within the Finance department. Key users in other departments also have access to Prophix. It is being used for the annual budgeting process, mid-year forecasts, and we will begin using it as a primary budget-actual variance reporting tool. Additionally, we're currently beginning to develop automated management reports.
  • Management of data within Prophix is easy. It's simple to load/view/delete/manipulate the data.
  • Building reports and data-entry templates is intuitive and quick.
  • The user interface is easily understood by all levels of users.
  • We have the Continuous Success Plan, which provides 2 hours a day of phone support. It often takes a week to schedule calls. I wish I knew how how to speed that process up.
I've yet to encounter any scenarios, or people who have had problems getting Prophix to do what is needed. It seems quite flexible & powerful.
July 22, 2019

Prophix Rocks!

David Whiteman, CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Prophix is being used for financial planning and reporting. It is owned by the finance department but is used by the whole organization. It addresses the planning and reporting for the company...it is the one source of the truth.
  • It performs complex allocations very well
  • It manages workflow planning very well when trying to complete budgets
  • It is extremely flexible and scalable to our business
  • It is an extremely stable software
  • More graphical or charting capabilities
  • Better ways to manage alternative hierarchies within the dimensions
  • Better Excel interaction
It is well suited for trial balance type planning as well as detailed planning (employee level). It has difficulty mixing hierarchy structure; have had difficulty with alternative hierarchies in the past.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently using Prophix for our budget; only the finance department is utilizing it. The biggest problem we have is that we cannot connect our current ERP to Prophix to allow for budget vs. actual reporting. In our old ERP the reporting capabilities were great and we were able to automate several of our processes to save a considerable amount of time.
  • Workflow is very useful and saves time
  • Ad Hoc reporting is a very useful tool across our accounting department for research and analysis
  • Allocations work very well with Prophix and are easy to maintain
  • We cannot currently connect Prophix to our ERP for actual vs. budget reporting
Prophix is very useful for managing and automating your budget workflow. It is very useful for budget reporting. As hoc reporting is one of most useful tools I’ve ever used in reporting software. Currently we are not able to connect to our financial system therefore reporting on budget versus actual results is not an option.
July 09, 2019

Prophix Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently only accounting is issuing Prophix. We use it monthly for consolidations.
  • Ad-hoc to easily manipulate data into what you need in a fast way
  • Makes reports easy to build and distribute
  • Workflow process provides a sort of checklist for processes needing to be completed
  • The fake numbers used in building reports
  • I wish you could have two ad-hoc [reports] open at once
  • If it were speedier when multiple users are in at one time
Consolidating is made easy and it is very easy to find the information you need in ad-hoc.
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