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# Centage User Reviews

## Reviews summary

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Total reviews: 52

### Secondary ratings

- Ease of use: 4.0/5
- Customer support: 4.4/5
- Value for money: 4.2/5
- Functionality: 4.1/5

### Rating distribution

- 5 stars: 15 reviews (29%)
- 4 stars: 25 reviews (48%)
- 3 stars: 11 reviews (21%)
- 2 stars: 1 reviews (2%)
- 1 star: 0 reviews (0%)

### Most mentioned pros

- Planning Maestro has many effective tools that allows our department directors to effectively budget their own areas and pull everything together in one cohesive plan.
- Great in person training was available, very flexible and useful features.
- Planning Maestro has successfully met all three requirements, and allowed us to provide more accurate budgets/forecasts/reporting with faster turn around.

### Most mentioned cons

- Uploading date to the software was not seamless and required time to properly configure files; downloading data to Excel had similar difficulties.
- The initial implementation process was rocky with several changes of support staff and the length of time from implementation to actual deployment took several months, with the deployment never being fully realized.

## Centage customer reviews

Showing reviews 1-25 of 52 (page 1).

### Budget Maestro

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Fran F.
- Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified
- Reviewed: February 2014
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

We have been using the software for about 7 years and it has been extremely helpful for our reporting. We used spreadsheets before that and to make changes to any item was a nightmare and now it is much easier. It has cut our prep time in half.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5

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### great planning tool

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: April C.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

We were on Budget Maestro for a few years. When Planning Maestro came out, we had the option then to move to something else but we stayed with Centage as PM is a solid budgeting and planning tool. It has good functionality and good support.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

ease of use is super important. reporting is good and I love the dump into Excel for more slicing and to import.

#### Cons

copy paste was removed from previous version - bring it back!

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### Good for small companies and simple budgeting

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Michael A.
- Industry: Insurance
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 2/5
- Functionality: 2/5

#### Pros

Simple to use, not very complicated. Has all the features needed for small companies and their budget needs.

#### Cons

Although simple to use, features are limited. They have a new web based version that should alleviate many of our limitations but we still have not had that rolled out. We were supposed to have the web based version last year but are still waiting for the roll out. They also are used to smaller companies and over the last few years we have grown dramatically so we have basically out grown the product.

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### Planning Maestro's analytics capabilities are a key differentiator

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: James H.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Religious Institutions
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

We needed a budgeting package that would be (1) easy to learn and use for our end-users, (2) able to automatically integrate with 3rd party general ledgers and (3) provide a powerful set of customizable analytics and reporting tools. Planning Maestro has successfully met all three requirements, and allowed us to provide more accurate budgets/forecasts/reporting with faster turn around.

#### Cons

A common issues I have with multiple software vendors: Enhancements and usability improvements can take a long time to roll out.

#### Reasons for choosing Centage

Met our key functional requirements and reasonable pricing

#### Reasons for switching to Centage

We needed a software package that was easier to navigate for our end users, and provided better reporting capability

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### Planning Maestro is an effective Tool

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Lesley D.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Our implementation went very smoothly and our implementation specialist made sure to go above and beyond making sure I understood how to use every tool. Planning Maestro has allowed our directors to take ownership of their budgets and have the tools available to tailor them to their own needs.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Planning Maestro has many effective tools that allows our department directors to effectively budget their own areas and pull everything together in one cohesive plan. For the most part, it's user friendly and support is always very responsive.

#### Cons

Reporting functionality of Planning Maestro can sometimes be challenging, as well as knowing which filters to select within revenue and driver applications.

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### Planning Maestro provides critical budgeting analysis

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Jenny B.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Government Administration
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

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.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### 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.

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### Effective Software to Measure Business Performance

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Jhanvi K.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: January 2023
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

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!

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### 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.

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### Overall solid business performance management software

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Brent D.
- Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified
- Reviewed: July 2009
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Solid business performance management software package.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5

#### Pros

1. Very powerful forecasting tool that can handle both simple and complex aspects of forecasting. Handles multiple departments, entities, and the consolidation of them with ease. 2. Very easy to import actual data in order to perform variance analysis. 3. Easy to import almost all information necessary to set up a "plan" the first time. 4. What-if analysis allows you to look at the financial impact of making changes in your business without having to change your primary "plan" 5. All reports can be exported to Excel 6. Report layouts can be customized. 7. Very easy to create a 5 year forecast that allows increase/decrease assumptions to be customized in numerous ways, and using as many timeframes as desired. 8. Handles lines of credit and term loans, both fixed and variable rate, very easily.

#### Cons

1. Can't run a statement of cash flows based on "actual" data, only on "plan" data. 2. Not very easy to run a "plan" balance sheet for a future year as a stand-alone report, must either start the report on a month just after you have "actual" data or create an "actual/plan" version that houses a combination of data so it can be used for beginning balances. 3. If using Desktop version, additional modules need to be purchased to handle pre-paid insurance automatically and forecast inventory.

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### Excellent experience. Software functions as promised - implementation team & support were great!

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Mary Beth D.
- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used other for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: May 2018
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Ease of budgeting at a very detailed level. Provided us with a better understanding of what drives our business from a financial perspective and what the impact might be if we were to change any of those variables.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Ease of use and affordability. The ability to design your budget without having to pay someone to configure the software is priceless. We were also able to implement and complete our budget in less than 2 months. This software allows us to budget continuously using the same data while just updating it for any changes. We budget annually, and re-forecast quarterly. This tool allows us to spend more time analyzing the impacts of the various variables and much less time actually creating the budgets to review. Once it is set up to forecasts into the future and all you have to do is edit for any changes. You can also perform endless 'what if' scenarios to see how potential changes would impact your forecasts.

#### Cons

Wow! I can't really think of any cons to this software. I am sure there are some limitations but for our company this fits the bill perfectly.

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### Sounds better than actual performance

- Overall rating: 2/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: April 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

We purchased the software to make our budgeting process more efficient, however there was no capability to easily project what-if scenarios, calculate impacts of inflation and generate useful reports. We purchased a three year subscription due to the competitive pricing however, when we decided this product was not meeting our needs the company refused to even consider a partial refund, despite the fact we were not able to use the product at all.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 1/5
- Value for money: 1/5
- Customer support: 1/5
- Functionality: 1/5

#### Pros

There are no pros except maybe the price point for this product.

#### Cons

The initial implementation process was rocky with several changes of support staff and the length of time from implementation to actual deployment took several months, with the deployment never being fully realized. The final product was bugged, with drivers not working properly and accounts set up incorrectly. Uploading date to the software was not seamless and required time to properly configure files; downloading data to Excel had similar difficulties.

#### Reasons for choosing Centage

pricing

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### Forecasting and Financial Report Generation made easy

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Mukul K.
- Industry: Management Consulting
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: November 2016
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

The solution provides the users with the ability to consolidate data for more accurate forecasting, and generate detailed dashboards and analytics. By pre-defining the A/R and A/P schedules, Budget Maestro will automatically calculate transactions for each, giving accurate balance sheet statements and cash flow reports. The forecasts with Budget Maestro can be easily modified based on real-time changes in conditions. The ability to make quick adjustments as conditions change keeps the forecasts accurate throughout the entire fiscal year. It can help to centralize financial data in a single database, rather than across multiple spreadsheets, and consolidate that same data automatically to reflect changes in key business drivers or market conditions.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Runs on cloud as well as on-premise. Free trial is available which should be used before purchasing the full software in order to test applicability. Good GUI

#### Cons

Initial versions of updates have a few bugs which are fixed in later versions.

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### Good moderately prices software

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Sundeep M.
- Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: January 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Lesser data redundancy than excel.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

User friendly interface and reports and a good drill down to get to source documents. The forecasts with Budget Maestro can be easily modified based on real-time changes in conditions.

#### Cons

1. Not easily available on any computer in the office - would prefer a more office friendly product that could be easily transferred from one computer to the next. 2. No "out of the office" capability to use the software. 3. No access of information unless it was taken from the computer that was set up for Maestro. Would prefer a web interface option

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### Budgeting and forecasting at its best

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Femi A.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used other for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: April 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

I love the analytics maestro, and this software is a good fit for SMEs

#### Cons

I cannot complain much but with all the great features, it is not for larger coporations

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### Has transformed financial intelligence

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Ayushi M.
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: August 2017
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Extremely easy to use and offers lot of features. It generates flexible spreadsheets, is compatible with any general ledger and has powerful what-if capabilities.

#### Cons

The application is amazing and efficient. Except minor bugs, there is nothing I don't like about Budget Maestro.

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### Good, moderately priced software

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Alice F.
- Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: January 2017
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

We were able to get a budget together in a few months including setup, training 30+ users, and remediation. Once you understand the logic of the tool, it all starts making sense. I have a variety of skill sets using the tool with minimal issues.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

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### ESG Automotive review of Budget Maestro

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Cynthia P.
- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified
- Reviewed: June 2014
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 3.5/5

#### Pros

They have an excellent training staff, and they are more than happy to work through any situation that you have.

#### Cons

There was a miscommunication in the research phase, and a major item that I expected is not a part of Budget Maestro. They have, however, found me a workaround.

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### Budget Maestro

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Gary K.
- Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified
- Reviewed: July 2009
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

I recommend this product to a professional who takes the budget process seriously.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5

#### Pros

Excellent budget tool and a fair price.

#### Cons

Report generation is a little too slow.

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### Powerful Product, Too Much for Some Applications

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Matthew V.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2024
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Great in person training was available, very flexible and useful features.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 2/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Powerful flexibility: The payroll section was strong and the seasonal curves/ratios tools were useful.

#### Cons

It may have been a little more than we needed for our application; longer training needed and fewer stakeholders were able to contribute because of the sophisticated nature of the product.

#### Reasons for switching to Centage

We needed a central hub with preset functions, permission levels and roll ups.

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### Planning Maestro

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: BJ T.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2021
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Centage has been great to work with, from implementation to today, they have been a true partner on our budgeting and forecasting journey. I've always been happy to recommend them and their software.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Planning Maestro brought a platform that allowed us to integrate into our existing accounting platform and create a structured environment we could use to refine our budgeting and forecasting process.

#### Cons

I don't have anything negative to say. When I have run into issues with the software I have always reached out to Centage and we have found ways to incorporate what I need into the software.

#### Reasons for choosing Centage

Planning Maestro had all the features we needed including, integration into our accounting platform, personnel tracking, report capabilities, etc.

#### Reasons for switching to Centage

The MF version we were on was no longer supported, and after having a taste of what it was like to use a budgeting and forecasting tool it was not an option to go back to excel.

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### Excellent, Intuitive program

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Shelly G.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Wine and Spirits
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: April 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

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.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### 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.

#### Reasons for choosing Centage

Budget focused, ability to plan over multiple years, price.

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### Powerful, flexible, and reliable budgeting software

- Overall rating: 4.5/5
- Reviewer: David D.
- Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing
- Product usage: Used unspecified for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2015
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3.5/5
- Customer support: 4.5/5
- Functionality: 4.5/5

#### Pros

Their support team is always available to help you through any questions or difficulties you encounter. The training provided is top notch and thorough and your trainer sets up your financial report formats for you to match your current statements. My trainer is still my primary contact person for help and all I have to do is send him an email. The software itself has enough built-in power and flexibility it can handle all kinds of retail, distribution, or manufacturing scenarios, like for my company it is the need to build up inventory before a selling season and to do this for many different products and different selling seasons. Budget Maestro is capable of generating fairly accurate balance sheets and cash flow statements, in addition to income statements, as it has sections within it devoted to the balance sheet side of forecasting. Combining Link Maestro and Analytics Maestro to Budget Maestro provides the only solution one needs to not only generate a budget or forecast but to then generate all the financial reports, statements, breakdown analysis needed by management. With Budget Maestro I can drive my revenues, expenses, and inventory levels by units, not revenue dollars, which is a lot more accurate for forecasting when dealing with a wide variation of products, product costs and retail prices.

#### Cons

Financial statements and reports utilizing proper accounting format rules can be very hard or impossible to attain by generating them within Budget Maestro. To attain the proper formatting that I am trained in and accustomed to providing to my management team I have to export the reports out to Excel and apply the spacing, headers, underlining, and so on inside Excel. However, now with their recent addition of Analytics Maestro, this issue is gone as Analytics Maestro is an Excel add-on so that you create and format all your needed standard and custom reports inside Excel and use Analytics Maestro to drop in the numbers and data you want in each report or statement.

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### A small and medium size company budgeting and forecasting solution that can be maintained in house with little or no reliance on consulting or outside services.

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Alan H.
- Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: January 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

In addition to providing robust budgeting, forecasting and integration with their analytics tool, Analytics Maestro, Budget Maestro is a true extension of a company's general ledger into future periods. This is accomplished through the unique software architecture, where every budget item, such as revenue, expense or personnel record creates an entry into a "behind the scenes" budget GL in the right GL accounts, in the correct amounts and the proper accounting period. What this means is, the financial statements you get in this application are always synchronized to the underlying budget. The balance sheet and statement of cash flows will accurately represent the forecasted financial position of the company to the extent of the accuracy of the budget itself. The financial statements and all other reports can be easily generated by users without relying on IT. The software can be directly integrated to popular ERP or accounting software GLs and the Analytics module which is integrated to Budget Maestro can also be integrated to other data sources such as CRM, inventory management, warehouse management, sales reporting data and others. Another feature I like to use is creating multiple versions of the budgets or "what-if" scenarios, each automatically generating a unique set of financial statements and reports, exactly matching that particular version of the budget. You can see how your financial position changes in future periods as you change the budget version. This helps in finalizing a budget that is reasonable and also closely aligned to company goals and plans.

#### Cons

The workflow process in this application lacks in capabilities expected from larger solutions. This is probably not an issue in smaller organizations which to my understanding are the primary customer of this software.

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

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Peter W.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

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

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### 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.

#### Reasons for choosing Centage

Felt more comfortable with the ability for users to learn and understand the product.

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

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Kathlee P.
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: May 2018
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### 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

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### Pure Planning

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Tamau R.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Cosmetics
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Too business support management even when someone lacks with a bit in attention to detail allowing for easy corrections and edits

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Gets the job done and has changed how we handle our budget and how we look at budgeting. Little to no consultation with a robust budgeting, forecasting and integration with their analytics tool, Analytics Maestro, Budget Maestro.

#### Cons

Deoendi on company size workflow process is lacking. Some forecasting issues of budget and balance but creating and actual plan minimises the issue.

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