Prophix is the best corporate performance management tool for Crystal & Company
Updated December 07, 2017

Prophix is the best corporate performance management tool for Crystal & Company

Joel P. Goldstein | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Prophix 11

Modules Used

  • Performance Management

Overall Satisfaction with Prophix

Excellent sewrvice company.
We use Prophix as our primary financial reporting tool. This includes all aspects of the financial reporting and management; budgeting, forecasting and performance management. In addition, we rely on Prophix as a substitiution tool for general ledger journal entries to allocate revenues and expenses throughout our oragizational divisional and departmental structure.
  • Prophix software is a unified solution for our financial reporting needs. It is relatively easy solution to implement, cost effective and requires little upkeep maintenance.
  • Prophix has an excellent detailed planning management tool that allows us to easily account for our personnel budget and forecasting needs, fixed assets, and other balance sheet items.
  • Prophix has a line item detail feature that enables us to analyze down to the lowest detail level for our ease of financial and account reporting.
  • We are able to easily create multiple templates for financial reporting and answer the needs for our many individual business units.
  • Excellent tool to manage the workflow for the budget process.
  • Prophix has done an excellent job of continuous improvement of their product. They have addressed almost all of our concerns and issues over the 6+ years we have been on the product. Prophix can still improve performance when using large sets of data dimensions and multiple shared dimensions.
  • Enhancement to system to manage the complete accounting close workflow process.
  • We have gained incredible efficiences utilizing Prophix for all of our financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting processes.
  • We are able to more quickly and accurately complete our month end financial reporting requirements, which allows us to spend more time analyizing the details and do a deeper dive into our key performance issues.
  • Our whole organization is better served with quick and easy access to their individual profit center results.
We import data from other disparate systems using ODBC and excel imports.
Important to have flexibility, but we currently have on our own server in the cloud.
Easier to implement, cost effective and user friendly.
Prophix is excellent at addressing our need surrounding corporate performance, but we do not rely on it for our busiess intelligence needs.

Prophix Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
8
Financial budgeting
9
Forecasting
8
Scenario modeling
Not Rated
Management reporting
8
Financial data consolidation
8
Journal entries and reports
8
Multi-currency management
Not Rated
Intercompany Eliminations
Not Rated
Minority Ownership
Not Rated
Local and consolidated reporting
8
Detailed Audit Trails
8
Financial Statement Reporting
9
Management Reporting
8
Excel-based Reporting
9
Automated board and financial reporting
9
Personalized dashboards
7
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
8
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
8

Using Prophix

60 - They cross multi business functions within Crystal & Company; from operations to business units.
3 - Licensed administrators of the system and subject matter experts within the variuos financial models established within the program.
  • Financial reporting
  • Budgeting and forecasting
  • Personnel management
  • Integrating our personnel planning with budgeting and forecasting
  • Creating entity financial package in lieu of general ledger coding
  • Allocation of revenues and expenses across 400+ profit centers.
  • multi year financial forecast modeling for balance sheet and income statements
  • KPI modeling and dashboard reporting
Maybe should be higher.

Prophix Reliability

Excellent run service company with great product.
Prophix is very responsive to our service needs.
Prophix continues to improve upon the performance of its product with reports and processes running more efficiently with all new releases.