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 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 |
 Workday Adaptive Planning | Score7.7 out of 10 | Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees) | Workday Adaptive Planning streamlines planning workflows, using AI and real-time data integration to improve collaboration and provide predictive forecasts for better strategic analysis. | N/A |
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| Considered Both Products | Chose Planful Planful scored high in multiple areas (such planning, reporting, Workforce controlling) and based on our assessment criteria Planful receive the highest value/cost ratio. At the same time, we were confident that Planful was able to scale together with the business and manage … Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Planful Planful was a more cost effective approach vs our previous platform (Adaptive) and is able to be managed fully within the FP&A team (no IT resources or outside consultants post-implementation) Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Planful We felt the platform was more user-friendly and had better functionality for our purposes. Since we already had Planful instance within our company, we already had in-house expertise on the Planful system, which gave us some consistency in tools. Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Planful Very similar; Planful looks cleaner, Adaptive seems less painful. Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Planful Vena was a close second in our selection process. We liked the smaller price tag and faster start up time. It s use of Excel was attractive. However, we did not feel that it would be able to grow with us. It was only good for the short run. Adaptive had some good features. … Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Planful Being a small company with limited cash flow, my goal was to evaluate what functions that are important and how much that we have to pay for them and last how easy it is to maintain without owning internal IT staff. I have evaluated Hyperion, Adaptive, Vena, and Host. … Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Planful Cheaper than Hyperion and a better platform that the other cloud systems. We also looked at some Excel based budgeting systems but they all fell well short of our requirements. Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Planful I know we narrowed our choices to three software products, but it was about 18 months ago, so I don't remember who the other twp were. We had been using Adaptive Insights, and that was the software we replaced. For us, as a grant based organization, the structure was too rigid, … Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. TR verified that a representative sample of customers was invited. More Info Chose Planful Host user interface was more "user friendly" so we felt it would be easier to train our users and they would actually use the system, especially as compared to SAP business Objects. Host is cloud based, Prophix was not. Host Functionality as compared to Adaptive we felt was better. Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info | Chose Workday Adaptive Planning Better than all 3. Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Workday Adaptive Planning When we were evaluating the software solutions we wanted: 1) A product that would efficiently consolidate our annual budget. 2) Something that would be easily adopted by the entire company. Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Workday Adaptive Planning Adaptive provided the best solution for the price given how we wanted to deploy the solution. For our size business they appear to the be best in class solution.
Host Analytics appeared to provide the same functionality, but was for a more distributed budgeting and … Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Workday Adaptive Planning To be honest - Host Analytics seemed relatively similar to Adaptive. However, Adaptive was our number one choice because: - The Adaptive suite looked a lot better. It seemed smarter and "sharper" and the data visualisation was better. Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Workday Adaptive Planning We looked at Host Analytics and found the product couldn't do as much as what Adaptive Insights could do. Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Workday Adaptive Planning My decision came down to Adaptive vs Host Analytics. Host made the claim that because their sheets were just like excel, you wouldn't need to learn any new commands. Rather, I thought that was a downside. I didn't want another glorified version of excel, I was looking for … Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Workday Adaptive Planning Adaptive has a much better interface and usability compared to all these systems. It is also less complex, easy to configure and install, and easy to teach. Adaptive is more affordable, both short and long term. Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Workday Adaptive Planning Adaptive Suite gave us what we needed and fit our use case perfectly. We did short list Host Analytics and they were neck and neck with Adaptive and it was a win/win for us and we would have been successful with either tool. My familiarity with Adaptive, the simplicity of … Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Workday Adaptive Planning We had meetings with several industry leaders and Adaptive was our choice in the end. We liked IBM and also liked Host Analytics for different reasons. In the end it was the combination of cloud, Excel add-in, Office Connect, Discovery, and cost that would ultimately end up … Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Workday Adaptive Planning Adaptive is much more flexible and powerful for our needs. It provides a wealth of reporting tools and capabilities that Cognos simply didn't or couldn't provide. The ability to have a team of one completely implement and manage the solution for a company is not unreasonable … Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 7.5 | 9.0 |
| Likelihood to Renew | 8.6 | 7.6 |
| Usability | 8.5 | 8.9 |
| Availability | 8.2 | 7.3 |
| Performance | 9.1 | 9.1 |
| Support Rating | 8.4 | 8.2 |
| In-Person Training | 6.4 | 8.2 |
| Online Training | 8.9 | 7.3 |
| Implementation Rating | 7.3 | 8.6 |
| Configurability | 8.2 | 8.2 |
| Contract Terms and Pricing Model | - | 7.3 |
| CPA Rating | 9.1 | - |
| Data Sharing and Collaboration | - | 7.5 |
| Data Sources | - | 7.6 |
| Ease of integration | 5.3 | 7.3 |
| Product Scalability | 8.2 | 8.2 |
| Professional Services | - | 8.2 |
| Vendor post-sale | 8.9 | 8.2 |
| Vendor pre-sale | 9.1 | 6.4 |
