LB's Host Review
January 26, 2017
LB's Host Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Planning
- Reporting and Analytics
Overall Satisfaction with Planful (formerly Host Analytics)
Host is being used across our company. The FP&A group uses it daily and all other department managers use it monthly to review their budget vs. actual reports. It has helped department heads to become more independent by giving them the opportunity to review reports directly in Host as well as drilling down to the transaction detail.
- It has given us the ability to create ad hoc reports faster and easier.
- The similarities with Excel make it easy for everyone to use.
- It has given us the opportunity to report and track (i.e. capital expenditures) things in a more efficient way that we couldn't report on prior to using Host.
- There are certain formatting functions that we would like to see.
- When running and creating reports that have rows that are grouped, we would like to have the ability to expand all rows at once.
- We have been able to provide information to senior management quicker and easier.
Overall we thought that Host fit our company better than Adaptive. We thought the tools that it had to offer were better. In addition, we liked the sales pitch better than Adaptive.