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Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik

Score8.5 out of 10

70 Reviews and Ratings

What is Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik?

Tagetik is a corporate performance management solution that unifies budgeting, financial planning, consolidation and management reporting. Tagetik is offered as SaaS, on a private cloud, or on-premise, and can migrate between deployments as needed.

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Top Performing Features

  • Single Sign-On (SSO)

    Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications

    Category average: 8.6

  • Local and consolidated reporting

    Ability to report against individual business entities and the consolidated umbrella entity.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Excel data integration

    Ability to integrate directly with Excel data.

    Category average: 8.6

Areas for Improvement

  • Report sharing and collaboration

    Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Drill-down analysis

    Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Responsive Design for Web Access

    Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.

    Category average: 7.6

Easy-to-use and integrated tool

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the software to integrate our ERP with CCH Tagetik Modules: IFRS16, Planning, Forecast, Budget, Consolidation.

Pros

  • Integrate with external ERPs
  • Easy-to-use for users
  • Pre-Packaged Solutions available

Cons

  • sometimes too many regressions on the software
  • some partners are Tagetik Certified even if they don't seem to be too good for Tagetik Implementations

Return on Investment

  • After setting the system, the maintenance requested is quite low and this saves time. (I Can't quantify that).

Usability

Other Software Used

Qlik Sense, Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Microsoft SQL Server

CCH Tagetik: a great financial reporting and consolidation tool

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company uses CCH Tagetik mainly for financial consolidation and reporting. We are a Top-3-health insurance-company in the Netherlands and are therefore required by law to provide i.e. the Dutch National Bank with a number of financial reports periodically. Since we have several labels in our company, consolidating all the different data into the required format is made very easy by using CCH Tagetik.

Pros

  • Consolidating: creating a solid report from all the different inputs.
  • Reporting: the data comes out exactly as we want it, how we want it.
  • Input: the different users can just send us their data in xslx-format, CCH Tagetik does not require a great number of users all using the tool.
  • The support and education possibilities are of great quality.

Cons

  • The learning curve is quite steep.
  • Sometimes the Italian terms are a bit hard to understand.

Return on Investment

  • Easier consolidation
  • Fewer or none errors
  • Less manual actions needed

Positively Powerful!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We needed a software that could consolidate a variety of currencies and ERP systems. Tagetik has definitely provided that for us. We use 8 different ERP systems and 16 currencies. With Tagetik we can report in any currency we need and consolidate our financials during month end close as often as we desire.

Pros

  • Consolidation
  • User Creation/SetUp
  • Job Scheduling

Cons

  • IC Cockpit report is difficult to customize

Most Important Features

  • Job Scheduling
  • IC Cockpit - Intercompany Matching
  • Reporting

Return on Investment

  • Consolidation allows for robust reporting
  • Multiple entity hierarchies allows for a variety of financial views
  • Job scheduling brought us automatic loads of our trial balances

Other Software Used

BlackLine, Bloomberg Tax Advantage, Esker

Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik - no idea what it means but it does deliver excellent group financial reporting.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used for management reporting and financial statement preparation. The product is critical for multicurrency consolidation and reporting for the entity, regional, and group structures. We have c.20 reporting entities and users.

Pros

  • Report customisation.
  • Drill down.
  • Excel compatibility.
  • Consolidation and close.

Cons

  • Online help and manual is a bonus but could be improved e.g. the clarity of English explanations.
  • Improved Excel compatibility e.g. formula driven reporting and dash boarding.
  • Mobile phone connectivity e.g. launching a consolidation from a Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik app.

Most Important Features

  • Dimension configurability.
  • Security model.
  • Report writing.
  • Excel integration.

Return on Investment

  • Fast close and soft close features enable pre reporting result improvement.
  • Budget and forecast cycles greatly improved on previous spreadsheet model.

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management

Other Software Used

Foxit PDF Editor (FoxitPhantom)

Get and maintain visibility on your financial data with CCH Tagetik

Pros

  • Processes are clearly described in CCH Tagetik ; users can easily find where they are and which action they have to make
  • Interaction with Excel is really fluid ; the Excel add-in is easy to deploy and to updgrade, in the hand of users. It is reliable provided the internet connection is fast.
  • Managing hierachies is obvious in CCH Tagetik. Hierarchies are fundamental for a good reporting ; CCH Tagetik has obviously a deep experience of this feature.
  • SaaS : our experience with CCH Tagetik is of only 1 year, but it technically performs well, the system is reponsive, no shut-down, and updates (every quarter) do not disturb production.
  • AIH seems to be able to manage very large quantity of data, and to provide advanced analysis functionalities. We did not have time to explore them.

Cons

  • Techical tools : ETLs are well structured, logical and understandable, but their interface is quite out-dated. Compared to pure ETLs like ALTERYX, we long for a graphical interface. The HTML5 query interface (SQL) is too slow and too rough : hints on data model or field names would be appreciated.
  • From a personal point-of-view, I would prefer a more compact web-interface, with smaller policies and other colours. OneStream or IBM analytics seem better on this aspect. It is subjective.
  • Our business can be audited many years later. CCH Tagetik provides no particular improvement to restore data-sets that where used in the past (fact tables and dimensions), whilst avoiding to keep the old dimension values in the current application.
  • Technical performances fall dramatically when trying to include too many dimensions in a report (even when using filters) ; it is difficult to export your data in flat files with the standard reporting tool. Switch to technical tools (SQL scripts, etc) are required for a reasonable time response.

Return on Investment

  • CCH Tagetik makes our data model more transparent a logical ; data are easier to share
  • Too early to estimate a ROI

Alternatives Considered

Anaplan

Usability

Other Software Used

Alteryx, Oracle PeopleSoft SCM