Pigment vs. Planful

Pigment

18 Reviews and Ratings

Planful

226 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Pigment	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Pigment is an enterprise-grade business planning platform that provides users with a 360° view of the business, updates its financial models in real-time, and allows users to run what-if scenarios at the click of a button. Pigment aims to enable FP&A and revenue teams to improve cross-functional collaboration, increase internal efficiency, and align financial and operational plans, all while scaling reporting and data management.	N/A
Planful	Score8.2 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	Planful is a cloud-based enterprise performance management (EPM) suite. It includes financial applications for modeling, planning, consolidation, reporting and analytics.	N/A

Pricing

Pigment

Planful

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Pricing Offerings
Pigment	Planful
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Pigment	Planful
Considered Both Products	Pigment Verified User Chose Pigment Pigment has a lot of the same self-service capabilities but offers a more robust infrastructure to plan and report on more than just the financial data. It allows for more extended planning and the reporting and dashboard capabilities are very strong. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Pigment Similar with Pigment being more favorable on the flexibile side Incentivized Helpful?	Planful Abby Cao FP&A Manager in Finance and Accounting at Unite Us (Internet, 501-1000 employees) Chose Planful Most financial folks user-friendly less technical support needed; most efficient and automated; data host in US; most automated with both the core application and excel spotlight in sync, you can view and sync in web or excel. Process time is fast. Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

Pigment

Planful

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Pigment and Planful
Feature	Pigment 7.6 4 Ratings	Planful 5.6 45 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	7.44 Ratings	5.722 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	8.43 Ratings	5.540 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	6.94 Ratings	5.737 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Pigment and Planful
Feature	Pigment 7.6 5 Ratings	Planful 6.9 75 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	7.85 Ratings	7.473 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	7.15 Ratings	6.574 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	7.93 Ratings	00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	7.65 Ratings	6.869 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Pigment and Planful
Feature	Pigment 8.1 5 Ratings	Planful 7.0 63 Ratings
Publish to Web	8.24 Ratings	8.122 Ratings
Publish to PDF	7.85 Ratings	6.857 Ratings
Report Versioning	8.44 Ratings	6.539 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	8.04 Ratings	6.444 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Pigment and Planful
Feature	Pigment 7.5 4 Ratings	Planful 6.7 35 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	7.64 Ratings	6.526 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	7.14 Ratings	00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	7.64 Ratings	6.830 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining	7.44 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Pigment and Planful
Feature	Pigment 7.8 4 Ratings	Planful 8.1 75 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	7.64 Ratings	8.369 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	8.44 Ratings	7.867 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	7.54 Ratings	8.268 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	7.84 Ratings	8.027 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	8.04 Ratings	8.359 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Pigment and Planful
Feature	Pigment 7.2 4 Ratings	Planful 8.0 31 Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	7.74 Ratings	8.629 Ratings
Mobile Application	6.64 Ratings	00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	7.54 Ratings	7.421 Ratings

Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Pigment and Planful
Feature	Pigment 7.8 6 Ratings	Planful 7.3 123 Ratings
Long-term financial planning	8.56 Ratings	8.0110 Ratings
Financial budgeting	7.86 Ratings	7.5122 Ratings
Forecasting	7.56 Ratings	7.4113 Ratings
Scenario modeling	7.16 Ratings	6.9102 Ratings
Management reporting	8.06 Ratings	6.8119 Ratings

Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Pigment and Planful
Feature	Pigment 7.1 5 Ratings	Planful 5.9 92 Ratings
Financial data consolidation	6.95 Ratings	7.181 Ratings
Journal entries and reports	6.44 Ratings	5.264 Ratings
Multi-currency management	7.03 Ratings	5.055 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations	7.13 Ratings	6.156 Ratings
Minority Ownership	6.54 Ratings	5.227 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting	7.34 Ratings	6.566 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails	8.44 Ratings	6.368 Ratings

Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Pigment and Planful
Feature	Pigment 7.5 5 Ratings	Planful 7.1 123 Ratings
Financial Statement Reporting	7.84 Ratings	7.3105 Ratings
Management Reporting	8.05 Ratings	7.1115 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting	7.14 Ratings	7.6115 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting	7.25 Ratings	6.288 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing	7.33 Ratings	7.13 Ratings

Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Pigment and Planful
Feature	Pigment 7.5 6 Ratings	Planful 5.5 77 Ratings
Personalized dashboards	7.86 Ratings	6.168 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards	6.85 Ratings	5.544 Ratings
KPIs	7.65 Ratings	6.356 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis	7.65 Ratings	6.253 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting	8.25 Ratings	5.844 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data	7.24 Ratings	3.18 Ratings

Comparison of Integration features of Pigment and Planful
Feature	Pigment 7.5 5 Ratings	Planful 6.6 113 Ratings
Flat file integration	7.54 Ratings	7.283 Ratings
Excel data integration	7.75 Ratings	6.6105 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources	7.45 Ratings	6.077 Ratings

User Ratings
	Pigment	Planful
Likelihood to Recommend	7.8 (6 ratings)	7.5 (132 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.6 (20 ratings)
Usability	7.3 (4 ratings)	8.5 (20 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (4 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.4 (21 ratings)
In-Person Training	- (0 ratings)	6.4 (2 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	8.9 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.3 (9 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (2 ratings)
CPA Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	5.3 (4 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	8.9 (4 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)