Item: Prophix
Rating: 8
Author: Kate Fallon

Support Rating

Fast response, good tools to help user solve the problem without having to create a ticket.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

[It's] Used within the finance department to generate financial reports and operational metrics that are distributed to management throughout the organization.

Pros and Cons

Financial Reporting - reports are easy to set up, and can easily can also create very complex report involving report-based calculations or multiple dimensions. Reports are very consistent and reliable.
One-off reporting or analyses are easily supported using the Ad-Hoc tool. Easy to manipulate data across the various dimensions to get to the slice of data that best illustrates the business question.
Process Manager allows user to streamline actions and processed required for data loading/maintenance/report generation.

Ability to use Excel as the front end to an ad-hoc query would be helpful so that the query would be saved in excel and user could link to cells to provide dimensional inputs.
Ability to have alternative hierarchies in all dimensions.