Planning Maestro

Effective Software to Measure Business Performance

Comments: Planning Maestro is a perfect software for Financial Organizations, large enterprise and companies to evaluate business performance and manage expense. It's a less expensive software related to other competitors. Must Try Once!

Pros:

It's a very easy to use product that helps you to manage your expense. Software offers many rich features like Asset Management, Budgeting, Expense Tracking, Financial Reporting, etc.

Cons:

We did not have any problem with the software to manage our expense and measure our performance.

Excellent, Intuitive program

Comments: The implementation of the product was smooth. The reporting capabilities of the program have exceeded my expectations. In addition, every person I've been in contact with at Centage has expert level knowledge of the program and any issues have been resolved immediately.

Pros:

The best part of this software are the drivers we use to manage our sales budget. We have several LLCs that are within this program. The ability to expand the way we create our budgets has given us greater insight into where we can save money. The elimination of finding "human error" input in an excel budget has alleviated so much time.

Cons:

I have yet to find anything I don't like about this product.

Budget Maestro is a solid tool, and I'm looking forward to enhanced features and functionality in 9.

Pros:

I do like the preview of the expense and how it will look like on the P&L. It really helps me make sure that my spread method is correct. I like analytics maestro. I can use excel to build reports. Also, it is easy to use the data to create charts and graphs and make the financial data consumable to those budget owners, who may not have a fiance background. I also like the ability to refresh and update the data quickly.

Cons:

Reporting. In analytics the idea of building is great, reminds me a salesforce. But it is sooooo slow on the virtual desktop. From what I understand this will continue to be the case in BM9. Also the reporting within the software is slow as well. It takes anywhere from 1-3 minutes to run any report. Also, the inability to create a version and it to show up in all plans. For example, if we want to create version of our 3+9 Forecast

Planning Maestro provides critical budgeting analysis

Comments: Good training, sophisticated calculations, "what-if" projections. Personnel expense calculation can be made as precise as needed. Can create drivers for calculations, and updating the driver updates the related revenue/expense, rather than updating multiple different accounts or line items; i.e. the units are a fixed commodity, but the unit price changes.Unmatched support that helps with any questions or problems.

Pros:

Can break down budget lines into as sophisticated detail as desired.Support staff are responsive, professional and helpful.

Cons:

Some features are site-wide rather than attached to a particular budget cycle. Updating these features can inadvertently affect other calculations.

Great product for M&A focused roll-ups and disparate companies

Comments: Very pleased with how it has scaled for us as we grew from 6 locations to 55.

Pros:

Cloud-based and scalable as we built out the company organically and through M&A

Cons:

Some of the drivers are a bit tricky to understand.