Planful is great!
February 21, 2022
Planful is great!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Structured Planning
- Dynamic Planning
- Reporting
- Consolidation
Overall Satisfaction with Planful (formerly Host Analytics)
Planful is extremely easy to use and customizable to whatever your needs are. We were using Adaptive Insights (rebranded since then) at the time and the difference was night and day. I had to call Adaptive support every time I wanted to change something, even just an account formula. With Planful, we are able to build out models that match our business needs and it does everything very well! We have just started dipping into Dynamic Modeling and it's opening up even more use cases for us to use Planful, even outside of the budgeting process.
- Template creation
- Hierarchy Management
- Excel reporting/functionality through Dynamic Planning
- UI can be inconsistent between modules (reporting vs structured planning for example)
- Dynamic Planning can only be used on Windows Excel. Mac support would be amazing
- Moving things around on a template is cumbersome
- Saved a lot of time
- Comfortability with our projections
- easy to use
We currently only allow finance users access but the functionality is there to open it up to other business users. We're just not big enough for that in our perspective
It's amazing being able to have all of our KPIs trackable in Planful. Even the ones we don't track in Planful, we are able to load so we have everything in one place.
Planful is lightyears better than Adaptive in the way it allows you to customize and do things on your own. It doesn't use it's own formula language so it's very intuitive for average Excel users.
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