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Overview

Denali Business

3.9

(61)

Pricing

Starting at $1,999.00 one time

About Denali Business

Cougar Mountain Software’s Denali Business is an accounting solution with the ability to customize 10 integrated modules. It is for small to midsize businesses and can be deployed on premises or in the cloud. Key features include individual user rights, internal controls, audit trails, customizable reports, rental equipment tracking and GAAP and FASB compliance. Business intelligence provides dashboards, predictive analytics and pulse alerts.

Denali Business offers accounting functionalities including auditing, reporting, data analysis and multi-location inventory management. Denali Funds is a grant, donation, event and overhead accounting solution for nonprofits. The solution is capable of assisting businesses in monitoring and controlling the flow of business assets. Businesses can manage multiple invoices, clients' information and collection status. Several features are also available as add-ons, including a payroll system, purchase orders and bank reconciliation.

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Denali Business Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $1,999.00 one time

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$1,999.00

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Denali Business Features

Popular features found in Accounting
Billing & Invoicing
Budgeting/Forecasting
Expense Tracking
Fund Accounting
Income & Balance Sheet
Multi-Currency
Payroll Management
Project Accounting
Purchase Order Management
Tax Management
More features of Denali Business
Accounting
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Activity Dashboard
Approval Process Control
Audit Management
Audit Trail
Bank Reconciliation
Bills of Material
Cash Management
Customizable Reports
Dashboard
Financial Management
Financial Reporting
Fixed Asset Management
For Medical Purposes
General Ledger
Inventory Management
Monitoring
Multi-Location
Purchasing & Receiving
Quotes/Estimates
Recurring/Subscription Billing
Revenue Recognition
Supplier Management
Time Tracking
Traceability
Transaction Management

Denali Business Integrations

Shift4Shop

QuickBooks Time

Denali Business User Reviews

Overall Rating

3.9

Ratings Breakdown

48%

28%

16%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.8

Value for money

3.4

Customer support

3.9

Functionality

3.8

Verified

Reviewer

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2017

Not as good as CMS Pro but heading in excellent direction

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

For the money, the features are excellent and I challenge you to find a better product in the price range. We have been using CMS since 1992. In fact, I still have one business doing in same revenue still using the DOS version. We also use Pro for some businesses and one business is now on Denali. The product is excellent. We didn't want to change from CMS PRO but had to. Denali is strong. Not yet better than PRO but most users won't know the difference. Bottom line: solid accounting foundation, well organized, more than capable for wholesale distributor. We are heavily customized which was not possible with Denali. Thankfully, they have partners that are very capable. I have always considered CMS one of the best business decisions I ever made.

Cons:

Somewhat slower to use. Screens are not colored well so can be hard to use/ see what you're doing. I wish they would at least acknowledge the strengths of CMS Pro and work harder to identify and incorporate them into Denali. Oh, the new software programming doesn't allow you to easily move the data and run it from another location. That was a huge advantage when hard drives failed or we needed to move systems. It will be much harder now. These are not big issues but they are cons from my perspective. I'd still buy the product any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Bob B.

Accounting

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

Great for small to mid-size buisenes

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Modular based product that allows businesses to choose from the suite not forcing businesses to purchase modules that are not needed. The modular base allowed us to purchased what we needed when we were ready.

Cons:

The interface is a bit out dated and could use some revamping. The functionality is great just could used an update to the UI.

Mark B.

Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2017

Many features not right. My CPA hates the software.

Anything that is wrong with the software, they make you feel it's your fault, or they designed it that way. Customer service feels like it's run by a your worst nightmare of a Cable Company.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

History. I love history for my customer's past purchase. Multi Level Pricing for inventory. 2 Must haves for my business.

Cons:

Software is more suited for a simple Cash drawer. Forget a mixed environment, card swipe and online terminals for Credit card processing. Even Cougar Mountain does not use integrated Card Processing themselves. Credit Cards processed though Sales do not show in Bank Reconciliation, yet Card Payments in AR do show in Bank Reconciliation. Ask why, Because you might not make the deposit from the Sale. Just a example of odd answers from Management. Many things just don't work the way they should. Warnings that an invoice is not printed before posting also include any on hold order not printed. Ship To address files have crossed variables. A Ship To Company Name is NOT used anywhere but in the UI for entering. Contact name becomes the Ship to Company name. This was "designed" this way. eDelivery for Invoices/Statements still limited to 75 pages per run after software has been around for a year. Their solution, just select less than 75. eDelivery Software then tosses out system level errors. Solution, Reboot your computer as Windows 10 Pro is at fault. Even a computer from Cougar, setup just for their software.

Don G.

Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing

Used unspecified for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2015

20+ Years Of Use, Sorely Disappointed

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The only good thing I can say about it is the searches and reports using crystal reports versus report writer is lightning fast.

Cons:

Our company purchased our first Cougar software in the early 90’s, and have updated to every new version along the way. In July 2015 we bought the Denali version, and it has been terrible. Don’t touch it with a ten foot pole. Hardly a day goes by that we don’t find new errors in the software. Spent a lot of dollars to get everything converted and our rep, while trying to be helpful, gets the run around from support. When I talk to support they tell me our support dollars have been used and they can’t report the problem to fix, even though it’s obviously a program error. We can’t generate purchase orders, because the system ignores items on back order. We can’t do a general ledger month to month comparison. I pointed out this problem in July and they said it may be fixed by year end. Many of our month end statements have to be changed because of wrong amounts, and the payroll has bugs. I feel that we are a Beta test sight and paying them to learn of all the errors.

John F.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed November 2015

Denali is full of Bugs, report information is inaccurate. Information cannot be trusted

Examples 1.Purchase Order generated an incorrect back order PO- the quantity on the PO was not what was in the Inventory Master Record. 2.The General Ledger impact report in Edit does not show accurate balances. 3. Interface with UPS Worldship does not work. 4. The daily backup only goes to a Local C Drive on a desktop. 5. Customer Statements have incorrect due dates. 6. Cannot print a Zero Dollar Invoice, but it does process through posting. 7. The percentages over Min and Max do not always work in PO. 8. Cannot modify existing reports as the data fields available are very restricted. Plus- Crystal reporting tool works very well and can be used to generate stand alone reports directly from underlying files. System speed is very good. Report output allows for export to excel files. Easy to publish adjusted standard reports. Reprint a posting in GL very helpful.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Vendor Response

Thanks for your comments. Your points are acknowledged. We have received a design change request related to PO-generation. Also, you are right about the UPS Worldwide interface. That interface was in CMS Pro (our legacy product) but was never implemented in Denali. There are a couple of points that are unknown to us. These include the issue with the Impact Summary and the issue with the Customer Statement. We¿ve searched our records for reports of these problems without finding them. We welcome your help in recreating those. Some of the points align with the expected use of the product. The backup does not have to be saved only to the local C drive, it can be saved to any networked location. Also, zero dollar invoices are not printed as the default in Denali because many (most) customers do not want them to print. (You can print these invoices manually by selecting All as the invoice type to print.) We are constantly improving Denali and appreciate your input to the process.

Replied December 2015

autumn s.

Verified reviewer

Retail

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2018

software

its slow at times and gets very expensive

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

the customer service is very friendly and helpful

Cons:

its complicating at times and is very slow

Vendor Response

Autumn, We would love the opportunity to talk with you about the specific issues that you're seeing. One of our core values is "unparalleled customer success", and we will work tirelessly to ensure that your experience using our Denali software is second to none. Is there a specific issue that I can address that would improve your experience with Denali?

Replied October 2018

Annette H.

Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed July 2014

DENALI is a disappointing followup to CMS

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I've been with Cougar since 1990 and have always felt their product gives way more value and flexibility than any other out there on the market. They had a good product in CMS ACT. They also have US-based customer service.

Cons:

DENALI is not ready for roll out. It seems like Cougar forgot all the lessons they learned through their DOS and CMS products. The reports are terrible and less informative than those in CMS. I'm having to do manual calculations to determine taxable wages. They don't include sick time, vacation time, or PTO in their history reports, and frankly I haven't figured out where I can get an accurate reporting of total gross wages or taxable wages. Their sort fields work only intermittently (page break on employee = page break on every check!). Denali feels like it was cobbled together and rolled out before it had even measured up to the standards of ACT; it's definitely not an "upgrade"! I'm so disappointed in Denali that I am considering evaluating other software moving forward, as Denali is not meeting my needs or providing the data I need for our reconciliation and internal accounting processes. In all fairness, I haven't updated to Denali 4.1 SP1 yet, and some of these issues may have been resolved.

John G.

Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad

Used unspecified for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2016

Non-Profit, Multi country, Multi currency, multi user installtions

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Multi user and multi currency. the customer support is great. they do quickly respond to us. they have great remote desktop software to control your machine and quickly help with problems.

Cons:

poor code requiring constant updates/fixes.., which most time is Full 3gb .iso install. since we are spread across the globe most of these I have to get very large iso across very slow, high latency, frequent dropped VSAT connections. frequent code generated end of year imbalances which requires yet another upgrade... hardcoded SA access for database queries.. published SA password so one code easily hack any competitors databases. until the last round of Installations very careful, undocumented tricks for installation.

Shah Abdul Latif B.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

Very good solution if you can afford it.

Cougar Mountain Denali is a user-friendly system that offers a wide variety of modules and options. While a little generic in terms of capabilities it should meet the needs of many Small/Medium businesses that don't require advanced capabilities.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Available as a one time purchase or per-month payments. Can be directly purchased. Easy navigation. Two of the three bundles include Crystal Reports.

Cons:

Has an overall high cost. Crystal Reports costs extra, even for the basic bundle. Data entry options and Report filters are not particularly intuitive. Not much graphic illustrations within most modules.

Cheri B.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed November 2015

I would never reccommend Cougar Mountain

I am very unhappy with Cougar Mtn. and the software...things do not balance and know one can tell us why. They have messed up our Customer notes and can not fix so now we really have a mess. When I ask a question, I am told they can not answer that and they don't know why the reports look the way they do??? One report won't even print out with the correct customer address and days have been spent trying to fix it and it wasn't fixed....customer order sheets have the incorrect address or no address

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Vendor Response

Thank you for your feedback. We are certainly sorry that you have experienced these issues. Our records indicate that we have, on numerous occasions, attempted to recreate the issues you have noted. Thus far we have not been able to successfully identify an issue. We¿ve even used your data but still have not been able to reproduce the errors. We, unfortunately, see a pattern of customer problems related to the use of our heritage software (CMS Pro) and the new versions of the Windows operating system. When other customers have experienced these types of issues, we have seen that the upgrade to our newest version of accounting software, Denali, and successful data conversation, has eliminated many of the issues you have described. We encourage you to investigate upgrading from our older technology to the latest version of Denali accounting software.

Replied April 2016

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