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Datarails

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4.2
Market Presence: Financial Corporate Performance Management Solutions, Financial Close and Consolidation Solutions

Overview

Product Information on Datarails

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Datarails?

Datarails is a software designed to automate and streamline financial planning and analysis processes for organizations. The software integrates with spreadsheet tools and various data sources to centralize financial data, enabling budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. It offers features such as version control, audit trails, and customizable dashboards, allowing finance teams to collaborate and maintain data accuracy. Datarails assists in reducing manual work and minimizing errors by providing tools for tracking historical data, creating financial models, and generating insights from consolidated reports. The software addresses business needs related to managing financial data, enhancing visibility, and improving decision-making through automated analysis and reporting capabilities.

Datarails Pricing

Datarails software uses a subscription-based pricing model, offering different plans based on features and the number of users. The software charges on a recurring basis, with costs varying according to the level of functionality and support required by the organization. Specific pricing details are typically customized depending on the scope of deployment and user requirements.

Overall experience with Datarails

TEAM LEAD - TALENT ACQUISTION
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education
FAVORABLE

“Empowering Team with Automation,Transaparency and Actionable insights.”

4.0
Sep 25, 2025
The platform supports HR by streamlining workforce planning, budgeting and payroll analysis.It integrates people and financial data, keeping track of headcount, compensation and attrition costs.It provides real-time insights and scenario modeling to improve decision making, while automated reporting saves time and facilitates collaboration between HR and finance for strategic workforce management.
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CRITICAL

About Company

Company Description

Updated 7th December 2023

Datarails focuses on the automation of financial reporting and planning. Its solution wraps around Excel, leveraging established financial models and spreadsheets, removing the need for comprehensive system changes. The elimination of manual processes allows finance teams to dedicate more time to data analysis, in order to detect strategies for enhancing revenues and minimizing costs. The business problem that Datarails addresses revolves around enhancing productivity and strategic decision-making potential within finance teams.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2015
Head office location
New York, United States
Number of employees
51 - 200
Website
http://www.Datarails.com

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Performance of Datarails Across Market Features

Datarails Likes & Dislikes

Like

1. Automated HR reporting : It reduces manual work by automating payroll and workforce workforce reports, improving accuracy and saving valuable time. 2.Workforce Planning and Budgeting: This platform makes it much easier to align hiring plans, headcount and organizational budget, ensuring better control over HR costs. 3. Actionable Insights: Real-time analytics on attrition, payroll and employee costs helps HR leaders make data-driven decisions and supports collaboration with finance teams.

Like

Excel integration for automatically consolodating data across our ERP and accounting software into Excel. It also provides version control to audit changes across reports easily.

Like

By using DataRails, I was able to see instant version comparisons of data and generate reports through a single interactive platform. With advanced user-permission settings, I was able to protect sensitive data and ensure that employees only get access to information they may need in their work

Dislike

1. Initial Setup and Integration Complexity : Integrating with multiple systems like ERP, HRIS, and payroll can be time consuming and may require technical support. 2. Limited Customization for Complex Scenarios : Some advanced workflows or highly specific HR/finance processes may require additional configuration or workarounds. 3. Advanced Analytics learning curve: While powerful features like scenario modeling and predictive analytics may be complex for new users without proper training.

Dislike

It was difficult initially while connecting to our accounting app.

Dislike

Error messages are not specific enough for new users. It is powerful enough to simplify our workflows but should also be simple enough for anybody to learn and use

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Peer Discussions

Datarails Reviews and Ratings

4.2

(20 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
85%
4 Star
15%
3 Star
0%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.9

Integration & Deployment

4.8

Service & Support

4.9

Product Capabilities

4.8

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  • TEAM LEAD - TALENT ACQUISTION
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Empowering Team with Automation,Transaparency and Actionable insights.

    4.0
    Sep 25, 2025
    The platform supports HR by streamlining workforce planning, budgeting and payroll analysis.It integrates people and financial data, keeping track of headcount, compensation and attrition costs.It provides real-time insights and scenario modeling to improve decision making, while automated reporting saves time and facilitates collaboration between HR and finance for strategic workforce management.
  • Director of Partnerships
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Finance Teams Benefit From Data Consolidation Though User Interface Requires Adjustment

    4.0
    Sep 11, 2025
    Our overall experience has been positive. We use Datarails in our parent org, used by our finance team. Excel integration was really helpful. The team used scenario modeling to plan our cycles. Initial adoption can be challenging. Some users who haven't had experience above excel can find it difficult as per UX.
  • DATA CENTER INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER
    1B-10B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Complete what-if modeling and consolidation/roll up

    5.0
    Sep 3, 2022
    DataRails helps the company quickly analyze and understand the current state of the business, stop variances, seize emerging opportunities and avoid pitfalls by making data much easier to navigate and, more importantly, to learn in a timely manner. This saves time spent in analyzing financial data, reduces the potential for human error and produces faster times to market for reports
  • VP Finance
    <50M USD
    Energy and Utilities

    Best planning tool on the market in my opinion

    5.0
    Aug 26, 2019
    Trying to manage P&L's for a handful of retail locations and departments, combined with nearly 2,000 employees is a challenge to say the least. Planning with DataRails has streamlined our planning and forecasting cycles and helped us to standardize metrics, reporting and analysis. It makes comparing plans, forecasts and actuals across the organization easy and requires no training or overhead. Who would’ve thought that would ever be possible..
  • VP Finance
    <50M USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Great product

    5.0
    Aug 29, 2019
    We chose DataRails over its competitors and we’re very happy with our choice. We keep using our Excels but benefit from a system that is in the cloud, it's customizable, and offered for a great price. It has improved every aspect of the FP&A function within our company. Our budgeting cycles are shorter, our data is more reliable, and analysis and reporting are more real time.
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