My Review of [Planful (formerly Host Analytics)]
July 23, 2021

My Review of [Planful (formerly Host Analytics)]

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Planning

Overall Satisfaction with Planful (formerly Host Analytics)

We currently use [Planful (formerly Host Analytics)] for budgeting.

Pros

  • Easy to use.
  • [Planful] can run reports on several platforms so everyone in our team can use it.
  • It helped us improve workflow.

Cons

  • Formatting, excel is still a bit better.
  • Sometimes not as intuitive as we hoped it to be.
  • System has some bugs to be worked out.
  • It enables us to pull up information on what we are forecasting for company IT costs for the upcoming years.
  • Standardized reporting
Yes, Its helped a lot for budgeting.
I would say its moderately, doesn't take a computer scientist but does take bit.
Not super difficult I would say.
We've evaluated some other tools, [Planful (formerly Host Analytics)] is what we've stuck with.

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 (formerly Host Analytics)] works well for budgeting so we would recommend it for that. For certain reports we would not recommend it because of some formatting things.

Planful Feature Ratings

6.2
Long-term financial planning
6
Financial budgeting
7
Forecasting
6
Scenario modeling
6
Management reporting
6
6.0
Financial data consolidation
6
Journal entries and reports
6
Multi-currency management
6
Intercompany Eliminations
6
Minority Ownership
6
Local and consolidated reporting
6
Detailed Audit Trails
6
5.0
Financial Statement Reporting
5
Management Reporting
5
Excel-based Reporting
5
Automated board and financial reporting
5
5.0
Personalized dashboards
5
Color-coded scorecards
5
KPIs
5
Cost and profitability analysis
5
Key Performance Indicator setting
5
5.0
Flat file integration
5
Excel data integration
5
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
5
5.0
Pixel Perfect reports
5
Customizable dashboards
5
Report Formatting Templates
5
4.7
Drill-down analysis
5
Formatting capabilities
4
Report sharing and collaboration
5
5.0
Publish to Web
5
Publish to PDF
5
Report Versioning
5
Report Delivery Scheduling
5
5.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
5
Predictive Analytics
5
5.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
5
Role-Based Security Model
5
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
5
Single Sign-On (SSO)
5
5.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
5
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
5

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