107 Planful Testimonials

"We had already reduced our month-end close process from five to three days. That was a huge feat for us because now, we’re able to spend more time driving value in the rest of the organization."

“Host Analytics allows us to work with fewer resources and get more out of them.”

"Each of these six entities acting with an independent FP&A team, the firm faced challenges in consolidating their financial and operational data."

“Host Analytics allows us to consolidate and report on our international entities in a much more accurate and timely manner."

“Frankly, Host Analytics is fairly inexpensive, especially when you consider that whenever you get into an on-premises system whether it’s in SAP or in Oracle/Hyperion or in IBM/Cognos you need IT support staff to run those. We don’t need that here.”

“Once I did a product demo from [Planful], it was love at first sight. It was like Hyperion models were easy to create, and the reporting was highly dynamic and customizable. Host had everything I needed that was missing from Adaptive Planning.”

“[Planful] Reporting changed the equation by making it possible to report on and forecast against a nearly unlimited range of factors. In one extreme case, Budd was able to turn around a five-year forecast in under two days where previously it took two weeks.”

“The ability to drill down on any category gives department managers great insight into their areas of the business. They have the ability to generate every report on their own, without having to request assistance from finance.”

“Host Analytics is absolutely driving new insights. When the month closes we have reports in the hands of our CEO and CFO the next day, which they can action on immediately.”

“Everyone’s telling us that cloud is the way to go but for some things it just isn’t right—yet. There are limitations. Our people are used to having the depth of solution Excel provides and that needs to be on the desktop. Host Analytics was new to me, but it gives us a way of using the spreadsheet on the desktop while also giving us the agility we need Data is in the cloud but the user experience is on the desktop.”

“Flexibility is a key advantage of [Planful]. You can adjust assumptions and the forecast updates automatically. You can change scenarios without corrupting data. Adding more advanced reporting will allow us to track the business in ways we hadn’t thought of before.”

“There’s something special about the values of the Host Analytics team. When I came to them with a problem, it wasn’t just a salesy answer it was, let’s think that through together. It was an offer of partnership.”

“After comparing it to on-premise alternatives, we felt that Host Analytics from start to finish would give us the best speed to value for what we could do. And it was a finance-driven system where we could be in control of our own success. We have seen these successes throughout our installation.”

“We were looking for a product that could collect data from disparate systems that also had an easy Excel interface and the ability to collect not just financial data but also statistical and transactional data. [Planful] was the only provider that showed us they could do all that.”

“With Host Analytics, we can plan for the future rather than just report on the past. Everything is easier. Even budgeting—a project that used to take five months—now gets done in just two months.”