Host Analytics - Impacts your speed and flexibility
August 10, 2017

Host Analytics - Impacts your speed and flexibility

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Planning
  • Reporting and Analytics

Overall Satisfaction with Planful (formerly Host Analytics)

Host is solely used by the Finance team. Currently, we are utilizing Host for planning, budgeting, reporting, and consolidation. We selected a Host as having the right mix of flexibility and not on-premises solution to support our needs for planning system and error reduction. We built an out of the box solution to fit our unique needs.
  • Does not require on premesis resourse (Dev) support.
  • Can be accessed via any browser.
  • Easy to use
  • Ease of customization that can be replicated across the entire organization.
  • Processing speed and lag time
  • Shortcuts
  • Further evolution of Excel support is needed
  • Not sure of Dollar impact, but we definitely saw the impact in efficiency in terms of reducing errors and increasing team speed
Host offers by far the best trade-off between investment and return, compared to similar solutions in the market.
Nimble and flexible teams that are dependent on Excel workloads.

Planful Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
6
Financial budgeting
9
Forecasting
8
Scenario modeling
9
Management reporting
4
Financial data consolidation
8
Journal entries and reports
Not Rated
Multi-currency management
Not Rated
Intercompany Eliminations
Not Rated
Minority Ownership
Not Rated
Local and consolidated reporting
Not Rated
Detailed Audit Trails
Not Rated
Financial Statement Reporting
8
Management Reporting
6
Excel-based Reporting
5
Automated board and financial reporting
8
XBRL support for regulatory filing
Not Rated
Personalized dashboards
3
Color-coded scorecards
Not Rated
KPIs
Not Rated
Cost and profitability analysis
Not Rated
Key Performance Indicator setting
Not Rated
Benchmarking with external data
Not Rated
Flat file integration
Not Rated
Excel data integration
6
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
Not Rated