“We had systems in place that were intended to solve that, but we had challenges with user support and administration, and were heavily reliant on IT. We had to modernize our tech stack.”

“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 …

“User adoption was critical for us and Planful provided a super-elegant solution users could get up and running with very quickly, and that proved to be true.”

“We were being very reactive because we wouldn’t see the increase in raw materials costs until it came through on our financial statements.”

“It was just mountains and mountains of Excel, Everybody has a different version so, when the numbers are different, you have no idea why. You're dealing with consistency issues, 100 Excel models, constant updates, having to wait your turn to get into the main model, [and] difficulty in terms of …

"Planful for Marketing saves us 2-3 hours a week and ensures that 99% of our budget is optimized for performance."

"I use Planful for Marketing because its not finance’s job to make me a better marketer – I need to know what’s making the most meaningful impact everyday not 60-90 days after the quarter."

“Budget management dropped from 7 hours to a half hour a week, and budget accuracy improved by 20%.”

“Planful for Marketing has played an instrumental role in helping me effectively communicate with Finance”

“Before I used Planful for Marketing, I used to cry a lot.”

“We love being able to manage campaigns and budget allocations, see results and breakdowns in one platform. If it was in Planful for Marketing, we’re confident it was accurate."

“We knew the past failures with our prior system and what Planful’s structured capabilities were, and Planful was ticking all the boxes. Using Planful hierarchies, we created a new dimension for resource (lending) departments, and then we married the three dimensions of geography, borrowing/financial reporting department, and resource/lending department to …

“Our team saved $62K from using Planful because we were able to look at numbers from last year’s event, allocate money appropriately, and remove low-performing or duplicate vendors.”

“With ongoing supply chain and workforce challenges, we needed a better, faster, and more accurate way to analyze the workforce budgets versus actuals throughout the year. We also wanted to give greater visibility to managers, HR professionals, and operational personnel.”

“We (also) had to constantly recon our reporting because we couldn’t trust the numbers on one report versus another because of the way the data was being pulled (by the reporting tool).”