Make your life easier with Planful!
July 18, 2024

Make your life easier with Planful!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Structured Planning
  • Reporting
  • Consolidation

Overall Satisfaction with Planful

At Hilb Group we use Planful for all of our financial reporting, annual budgeting, monthly forecasting and much of the ad hoc analysis needed to run our business. Without Planful, it would probably be done in Excel which would be very tedious and cumbersome. Planful has streamlined the processes and their security allows people to only have access to their individual agencies/regions or departments.

Pros

  • User interface is easy to use
  • Application uses Excel formulas
  • Security allows for flexibility and confidentiality
  • Consolidation
  • KPIs and graphs

Cons

  • Some reports that have a lot of data take a couple of minutes to run
  • capital expenditures in forecast should stop calculating once that month has passed.
  • I believe it has probably saved regional controllers, corp controller and financial analysts up to a week of time each month if the alternative was doing it in Excel.
  • Time now spent analyzing, running and improving our business rather than compiling and consolidating.
  • The fact that it is cloud-based also frees up I/T from being involved.
Discussions are held regularly with regions on their results and forecast/budget going forward. This is all done and reported on in Planful. The reports are set up and distributed prior to each of the calls and facilitates the calls as the important information is discussed.
We have a direct connect to each of our agency AMS systems, so that trial balance data is automatically uploaded. Once this is done, Planful consolidates the data, we do analysis and provide reporting and analysis to the executive suite. It is a very effective and efficient process.
It has been quite some time since I have used or evaluated some of the other products out there.

Do you think Planful delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Planful's feature set?

Yes

Did Planful live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Planful go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Planful again?

Yes

Planful is a great tool for financial reporting and analysis. It has made everyone's jobs easier and more efficient. The Spotlight Excel tool which connects directly to the database also allows you to update reports with the click of a button. I can't think of a business that would not be able to use Planful.

Planful Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
9
Financial budgeting
9
Forecasting
Not Rated
Scenario modeling
9
Management reporting
9
Financial data consolidation
9
Journal entries and reports
9
Multi-currency management
9
Intercompany Eliminations
9
Minority Ownership
9
Local and consolidated reporting
9
Detailed Audit Trails
9
Financial Statement Reporting
9
Management Reporting
9
Excel-based Reporting
9
Automated board and financial reporting
9
Personalized dashboards
9
Color-coded scorecards
9
KPIs
9
Cost and profitability analysis
9
Key Performance Indicator setting
9
Flat file integration
9
Excel data integration
9
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
9
Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
9
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
9
Report sharing and collaboration
9
Publish to Web
9
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
9
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Predictive Analytics
9
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Report-Level Access Control
9
Single Sign-On (SSO)
9

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