Planful Reviews in May 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

"Great application that has helped our FP&A team tremendously "

What do you like best about Planful? I like how it increases the transparency with our business partners. It offers real-time access to their budget, forecasts and monthly results. The drill-through feature is great to help with inquiries and variance explanations. What do you dislike about Planful? There are a few bugs that require you to refresh the report or template. Recommendations to others considering Planful: Understand your needs and what you are looking to obtain from the ...

"Host Analytics is a great EPM solution"

What do you like best about Planful? Host is great for bringing together data from multiple ERPs into a single application for consolidation, planning and reporting. What do you dislike about Planful? There is nothing specific I would call out as a dislike. What problems is Planful solving and how is that benefiting you? More efficient monthly close and reporting, faster forecast preparation, better reporting and analytics. More time to work IN the business instead of ON the business.

"great forecasting and reporting tool"

What do you like best? ability to share the forecasting process throughout the organization What do you dislike? it can take a long time to bet set up correctly What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? able to forecast and budget faster

"Awesome and knowledgeable"

What do you like best? The most helpful part was getting to talk Host team directly who build the product. What do you dislike? The timing of the breakout sessions and having to pick between two good sessions. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Alternative and attribute hierarchy and learning how we can best implement at my company. The reporting and generating the board package quickly.

"A Delve into my First Software Conference"

What do you like best about Planful? I did enjoy the Dave Kellog session on Wed morning regarding what the board looks at. This session was insightful. Also, the training session I attended was great for what I currently do and where I want to take it. Lastly, the customer dialogue (with other customers) I found very good. What do you dislike about Planful? Some of the break-out sessions were very general, but I get that the use-cases are individual and its hard to cover all. What problems ...

"A Delve into my First Software Conference"

What do you like best? I did enjoy the Dave Kellog session on Wed morning regarding what the board looks at. This session was insightful. Also, the training session I attended was great for what I currently do and where I want to take it. Lastly, the customer dialogue (with other customers) I found very good. What do you dislike? Some of the break-out sessions were very general, but I get that the use-cases are individual and its hard to cover all. What problems are you solving with the ...

"Host analytics reporting"

What do you like best? Spotlight reports and dashboards , I really liked the spotlight reporting What do you dislike? I think we need to improve the formatting in Dynamic reports What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? I have utilized spotlight and reporting part

"Implemented Host Analytics and Utilizing Spotlight"

What do you like best about Planful? Spotlight has been the part of Host Analytics that has proven to be most relevant to my job, it preserves excel functionality and makes the learning curve much less steep. What do you dislike about Planful? The thing I dislike about Host Analytics is that it is fairly clunky in that you have to know exactly where thing are located and the order in which to perform operations to avoid getting error messages. It is a hard learning curve in the Core App. ...

"Awesome and knowledgeable"

What do you like best about Planful? The most helpful part was getting to talk Host team directly who build the product. What do you dislike about Planful? The timing of the breakout sessions and having to pick between two good sessions. What problems is Planful solving and how is that benefiting you? Alternative and attribute hierarchy and learning how we can best implement at my company. The reporting and generating the board package quickly.

"Enlightening"

What do you like best about Planful? The in-depth workshops with hands on training and learning What do you dislike about Planful? The overviews without much hands on learning What problems is Planful solving and how is that benefiting you? modeling operational data using external source models and creating effective dashboards