Cumulus BI
vs
Planacy

Cumulus BI

Planacy
Company size
Number of employees
Microenterprises (1-10)
Small business (11-100)
Medium-sized enterprises (101-500)
Large companies (500+)
Microenterprises (1-10)
Small business (11-100)
Medium-sized enterprises (101-500)
Large companies (500+)
Platform
Cloud service
On-premises
Mobile app
Cloud service
On-premises
Mobile app
Price information
Free trial
Price model module
Subscription price model
Price model license
Free trial
Price model module
Subscription price model
Price model license
Product features in Budgeting & Forecasting Software
Benchmarking
Comment
Dashboards
Invoice information
Key figures analysis
Modelling
Multiannual planning
Rolling forecast
Work process control
Benchmarking
Comment
Dashboards
Invoice information
Key figures analysis
Modelling
Multiannual planning
Rolling forecast
Work process control
Reviews
Based on 4 reviews
Based on 4 reviews
Ease of use
Cooperation with the supplier
Support and service
Range of functions
Customisation and flexibility
Integration
Value for money
How satisfied are you overall?
Ease of use
Cooperation with the supplier
Support and service
Range of functions
Customisation and flexibility
Integration
Value for money
How satisfied are you overall?
Reviews
Pros
Cumulus BI is a powerful and very affordable budgeting and forecasting tool that gives us full control over our financial flow. Implementation was quick and smooth, and Binovi's service-orientated team made it easy. The service is both user-friendly and flexible, making it easy to customise to our needs. With Cumulus BI, we work much more proactively and make more confident decisions.
Cumulus BI is characterised by being truly user-friendly and at the same time extremely flexible - the service is shaped by the business, not the other way around. With a dynamic data model and high degree of customisation, we quickly gain full control, while saving time and reducing the risk of errors.
With full integration with our financial system, we can easily drill down into details, all the way to vouchers, and retrieve attachments and invoices directly in the service. This provides unrivalled transparency and control in our daily work.
* Processes with Work-Flows and Approval * User-friendly (even for "non-economists") * Endless customisation possibilities * Short implementation time (extremely short if it is high quality data from the accounting) * Ease of combining production data from PowerBI and financial data from the accounting system * Cloud solution with 100% up-time
It is a very flexible system that has allowed us to customise each step of the forecasting process to our needs - and it remains easy to use and intuitive. Planacy has helped us to decentralise planning and has significantly reduced the time to collect and summarise information. Together with our BI system, the planning and analysis of our data has improved significantly compared to when we were using Excel alone.
With Planacy, we have been able to customise a forecasting process for our various revenue streams, operating expenses and several other processes as well as for our mid-term plans. As a fast-growing multinational company, we appreciate that we can customise Planacy and adjust our solution as conditions change. The platform is integrated with our BI tool (Qlik Sense), which facilitates the loading of historical data and makes it possible to seamlessly analyse the forecast against outcomes and previous forecasts. It is easy for users to input data, provided that the data flow is clearly documented.
Reviews
Cons
We have not experienced any weaknesses - Cumulus BI is a solution we recommend with full conviction.
* Some operations may of course be easier to perform in Excel, but as soon as the amount of information becomes too large for the normal user, Excel is not an option. * Some other systems have a better visualisation engine.
It is difficult to make changes to the system without the help of an experienced resource.
Thanks to its flexibility, it is easy to want to replicate calculations and dependencies from complex Excel sheets even in Planacy. We therefore rethought our original approach to achieve a balanced solution with a reasonable level of detail in the calculations. Using our own resources, we have customised the system to our preferences.