Planful

In my experience, I would say the consolidation functionality is the strongest/best in the industry. As a holding company, this feature and its ease of use is very important for our organization. Even comparable EPM platforms have acknowledged to me that they can't match Planful in this area. Reporting, budgeting and forecasting are fairly straightforward to configure/operate monthly, quarterly, semi and yearly.

I like the dynamic aspect of reporting

Customization and Excel-like interface. The Planful academy and engage platforms help drive learning and admin user experience, which will fizzle down to the whole company upon roll out.

At times, product enhancements can be slow to roll out - I appreciate that Planful listens to its customers and takes feedback seriously, but some straightforward updates shouldn't require 18 to 24 months to implement. The administration side was once very simple, but it has become more challenging as new customer requested features have been added, making it a little more difficult to troubleshoot issues and pinpoint the settings that need to be adjusted to resolve them. While rising costs are expected with any product, new features that feel like they should have been included/ standard from the start shouldn't come with additional fees. I understand the need to recover development costs, but many of these enhancements have been requested for a long time, and when they finally become available, the pricing at the initial rollout often feels steep.

processing time, system capabilities with large data sets, dashboard reporting

The learning curve to understand how to use the tool has been time consuming in the short term, however I can see the long-term benefits and cannot wait to start achieving the goals we initially set.