Limelight Software vs. Solver

Limelight is well suited for reporting, especially if you're GL is integrated with it. I've been able to create many different types of reports for a wide user base. It's easy to copy reports and change them based on different scenarios. Limelight has been great as a replacement for Excel for forecasting and budgeting. We have many users updating their individual forecasts, which then get consolidated. Previously, we would have to manually consolidated many Excel workbooks. Now this is done automatically by Limelight. Limelight struggles with processing speed if you create more complex reports/templates. I've asked how to speed up reports and most of the response is to make them less complex or have less people using the templates, neither of which work well for us as a solution. The help desk response use to be much better in the past. They have struggled in this area recently.

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BI360 is well suited if you are trying to build reports for user access outside of the finance department. I believe BI360 would not be as useful to a company is smaller and does not have a myriad of departments.

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• Agile reporting
• Collaborative forecasting and budgeting
• Up to date reporting with GL integration

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• Budgeting is one of the Best features they have in BI360.
• Excel-based reporting gives all Excel-lovers more confident.
• Data Warehouse holds data from different systems, so cross-platform reporting made easy.

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• Complex template speed
• Customer service response - was good initially, but has become worse recently
• Formatting options in charts

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• Real-time data for reporting is not available when you get it from the warehouse.
• Not compatible with Google Chrome.
• Lack of version and source control for reports on the Web portal.

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Felt modern. Liked how it was similar to Excel. Liked the flexibility.

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Flexibility in the creation of dashboard and more robust.

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• Limelight has helped us increase the speed of our forecasting, budgeting, and reporting
• Limelight has helped us create models to look at many years in the future.

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• BI360 has made getting information to management much easier.
• BI360 makes compiling information to make reports much easier.
• Since BI360 is capable of so many reports, our company uses it for more than financial purposes.

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