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Host Analytics took a lot of data and made is useful.
September 25, 2017

Host Analytics took a lot of data and made is useful.

Mary McLaughlin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Planning
  • Reporting and Analytics

Overall Satisfaction with Host Analytics Cloud EPM Suite

Host Analytics is being used by myself for budgeting, financial reporting and product gross margin reporting. The resulting reports are used by other executives within the organization.
  • I have a large amount of product data that Host has helped me organize into something I can use in my business.
  • I can get several financial reports with the push of a button each month.
  • As I use the software I realize there are more things I can do.
  • The Host customers for life team is always there to help me when I explore these possibilities.
  • It can be difficult to set up a report templates. Once set it is good and there are no worries. It would be nice it the report setup was easier to use.
  • It has a large learning curve, but I am unsure how this can be improved upon. To understand the details of how it works is a time consuming endeavor.
  • Host has saved me a lot of time at month end. Time is something of which there is never enough.
  • Host has raised our ability to use our product margin data to a higher level.
Financial reporting is a wonderful use. It can take the raw data and enable you to present it in almost any format you can imagine. Budgeting in Host is also a wonderful use of the software. I find that it is so much easier to look back at a budget and see "where the numbers" came from. The other major thing we use Host for is our product information - this was a monster of an Excel workbook each year and we were unable to combine time periods the way we can in Host.

Planful Feature Ratings

8.3
Long-term financial planning
7
Financial budgeting
10
Forecasting
Not Rated
Scenario modeling
Not Rated
Management reporting
8
9.5
Financial data consolidation
10
Journal entries and reports
Not Rated
Multi-currency management
Not Rated
Intercompany Eliminations
Not Rated
Minority Ownership
Not Rated
Local and consolidated reporting
9
Detailed Audit Trails
Not Rated
9.3
Financial Statement Reporting
10
Management Reporting
10
Excel-based Reporting
10
Automated board and financial reporting
7
XBRL support for regulatory filing
Not Rated
9.0
Personalized dashboards
Not Rated
Color-coded scorecards
Not Rated
KPIs
Not Rated
Cost and profitability analysis
9
Key Performance Indicator setting
Not Rated
Benchmarking with external data
Not Rated
10.0
Flat file integration
Not Rated
Excel data integration
10
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
Not Rated
BI Standard Reporting ()
Not Rated
Ad-hoc Reporting ()
Not Rated
Report Output and Scheduling ()
Not Rated
Data Discovery and Visualization ()
Not Rated
Access Control and Security ()
Not Rated
Mobile Capabilities ()
Not Rated