BI360 Suite Software
BI360 is a hybrid corporate performance management (CPM) solution based on the Microsoft platform. It caters to businesses of all sizes across various industry verticals. Key features include reporting, budgeting, dashboards and data warehousing. It can be deployed either in the cloud or on-premise.
BI360 comes with pre-built integrations to a number of ERPs including Microsoft Dynamics 365, GP, AX, NAV, SL, Acumatica, Sage Intacct and more. It offers both real-time and data warehouse-based reporting, as well as both multi-company and multi-currency reporting.
Support is offered via phone, email and online tutorials.
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Data warehouse
Supported Operating System(s):
Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS, Web browser (OS agnostic), Windows 2000
68 Reviews of BI360 Suite
Stacy from Ojai Valley Inn & Spa
Specialty: Hospitality / Gaming
Employees number: 501-1,000 employees
July 2018
July 2018
Such a great program that will save you a ton of time
Pros
I like how easy it is to run revenue and labor reports and how all the data is stored for you. It has saved us so much time on forecasting, budgets and labor reports
Cons
I dont like how easy it is to delete certain things. It would be nice to have a pop asking if you want to delete the item
Marriah from Sanjel
Specialty: Energy & Utilities
Employees number: 1,001-5,000 employees
March 2018
March 2018
Top notch product
Pros
The possibilities are endless with this product. The user is able to create customized reports consisting of essentially any data point available within the software program. Very robust program.
Cons
Training is a must, and users must be comfortable with the software from which BI is extracting data and proficient in excel.
Kartikk from UnitedLex Corporation
Specialty: Legal
Employees number: 1,001-5,000 employees
December 2017
December 2017
Nice Experience
Pros
Great graphical illustrations and reporting functionalities. The various ways we can slice and dice the data.
Cons
Need to make it more user friendly as well as make it more closer to the formats like excel which everyone is used to.
Casey from Concerto Cloud Services
Specialty: Software / Technology
Employees number: 51-200 employees
August 2017
August 2017
Great Functionality and Time Saving tool
Solver has an outstanding Support team to help client get up and running!
Pros
Solver has the solution our clients use to create effective and helpful reports saving their organizations not only time but money. We hear how over and over the ease of use.
Cons
To successfully implement our clients need to get their entire organization to embrace the solution.
Stephanie from Concerto Cloud Corporation
Specialty: Software / Technology
Employees number: 51-200 employees
August 2017
August 2017
Great software for budgeting and reporting
Great product and awesome team!
Pros
Excellent interface and design and built with the user in mind. The ease of use and quickness for retrieving data from the warehouse.
Cons
global cloud availability for BI360 would be great. Capability to white label for partners would be a nice addition.
claudine from Socius
Specialty: Consulting
Employees number: 51-200 employees
August 2017
August 2017
Informative
This software is one of the easiest to pickup and learn, as it's excel based which everyone knows.
Pros
Ease of use, integrations with other 3rd party products, data warehouse, publisher; excel based, so can use excel formulas.
Cons
sometimes depending on amount of groupings and data, can have rendering issues; timeout when using multi-tab.
Ben from Socius
Specialty: Consulting
Employees number: 51-200 employees
August 2017
August 2017
Seemingly Seamless
Pros
I like how most of it is embedded in Excel. It also has a modern feel to it unlike management reports, etc.
Cons
Speed and performance especially when related to Excel. Not much resources on SSIS integration pieces
April from Altec
Specialty: Other
Employees number: 51-200 employees
August 2017
August 2017
Company that cares!
Solver cares about their products, customers and employees. They are constantly adding new features and making improvements to the product. Their customer conference Focus is fantastic. You are missing out if you aren't going. They sessions are very educational and you learn so much.
Pros
The product is very easy to use. If I have any questions or need support Solver is always there to help me. I highly recommend them.Change can always be difficult but the outcome is definitely worth the time and investment. So glad we aren't doing our manual processes anymore.
Tricia from Casey Family Programs
Specialty: Non-Profit
Employees number: 201-500 employees
August 2017
August 2017
flexibility, efficiency from integration of data
Pros
report designer, excel interface of budget templates, flexibility of data classification (dimension attributes)
Cons
netsuite integration, customizations in net suite don't allow for automated data feed. Speed and perfomance issues rendering budget templates to Excel.
Shannon from Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
Specialty: Non-Profit
Employees number: 51-200 employees
August 2017
August 2017
Great Experience with Reporting
Pros
The ease of reporting is great, and I love that I can access relevant financial data to make faster decisions at the click of a button.
Cons
I would like to see better/more informational user guides that give more detailed instructions in various areas.
Valentino from Fresh Creative Foods
Specialty: Food / Beverage
Employees number: 201-500 employees
August 2017
August 2017
My experience has been great. Being able to utilize the workshops was a great opportunity to assist in creating reports.
Overall this is a great product and looking forward to updates and changes in the future that will enhance my reports.
Pros
I like the idea that I can use native excel formulas and being able to create reports in half the time if would normally take.
Cons
Not being able to creative pivot table without using a built in marco. My reports consist of a lot of pivot table. Marcos are time consuming.
Trishia from PA State Employees Credit Union
Specialty: Banking & Financial Services
Employees number: 501-1,000 employees
August 2017
August 2017
Ease of use
Pros
Works with Excel
Customer Support
Ease of use
Cons
Hours of support are hard to work with when you are on the east coast and support is on the west coast.
Sachin from Communicorp Inc
Specialty: Marketing Services
Employees number: 201-500 employees
August 2017
August 2017
Focus 2017 has been up to the value. I learned what more I can do with BI360
Pros
User doesnt need extensive knowledge of SQL for report building.
Department can utilize same templates they been using with Excel (Ad-hoc reporting) when they migrate to BI
Cons
User Access and cross domain trust relationship over one way trust for Single sign on. combined access with OSR portal and local user excel can be complex.
Michael from Keiter
Specialty: Accounting / CPA
Employees number: 51-200 employees
August 2017
August 2017
New User That Is Excited About the Possibilities
Pros
Flexibility in doing cross-functional analytics and reporting
Ease of distribution and self-service possibilities for report users
Cons
Longer initial design required than expected. Determining best practices are not as apparent as hoped.
Michael from Denver Broncos
Specialty: Other
Employees number: 201-500 employees
August 2017
August 2017
Lots of potential but needs dedicated focus to achieve the results (not simple drag and drop)
Pros
The potential and discovering new things that you can accomplish. The Excel add in is great along with the ability to build our own modules in the DWH.
Cons
Learning curve is steep and not as intuitive as advertised. The web portal product is lacking at this stage and seems it has taken a very long time to make the switch to Silverlight. Even though 5.0 is coming out, the emphasis is placed on new customers rather than fixing the problem for current customers.
Allison from NewPort Tank Containers USA LLC
Specialty: Travel, Transportation & Logistics
Employees number: 201-500 employees
August 2017
August 2017
BI360 Focus 2017
Overall a great product and I love learning new tips and tricks on the software
Pros
Easy to write your own reports. Support is amazing and very knowledgeable if you run into any problems. Solver team takes feedback from customers and works to improve any problems
Cons
Our company doesn't use all of the functions or capability of the product yet so it can seem a bit expensive
Danielle from The Jackson Companies
Specialty: Hospitality / Gaming
Employees number: 501-1,000 employees
August 2017
August 2017
BI360 has become my everything
Pros
excel, easy to manipulate, helpful in more ways then just financial reporting, fun to create and build
Cons
speed of reports, support to integrate new systems into the warehouse has become a struggle because techs are to busy
Lisa from MassDevelopment
Specialty: Government
Employees number: 51-200 employees
August 2017
August 2017
BI 360 has reduced our month end financial reporting time in half. Great product.
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Pros
Ease of creating reports, able to create reports on the fly in many different ways, ease of adding in charts.
Cons
Upgrades have not been smooth. At times we lost functionality that we originally had in prior versions
Dev from Brand USA
Specialty: Marketing Services
Employees number: 51-200 employees
August 2017
August 2017
Automation through BI360 Suite saves time and adds value
Pros
The ability to automate report generation, distribution, with reports you can customize to match your needs.
Cons
The 4.0 platform uses Silverlight, but that is about to change with the new 5.0 platform and already live in the cloud format.
Robert from Schneider Downs & Co., Inc.
Specialty: Accounting / CPA
Employees number: 201-500 employees
August 2017
August 2017
BI360 has improved our financial reporting capabilities
Pros
Being Microsoft Excel-based, you get to leverage all the capabilities, flexibility and power of Excel.
Cons
There are some opportunities at add functionality that could be added to make the software more powerful, however Solver does a great job of adding enhancement requests, so I'm sure that they will be adding more soon.
Taras from Auerbach
Employees number: 51-200 employees
September 2018
September 2018
Oh boy
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My experience is as follows: we had an architect who created a 2018 model and upgraded his BIM to 2019 in the BIM 360 shared file. This corrupted the file, and every consultant on the job who linked their model to theirs (either local or central) all got corrupted as well to the point that you couldn't insert a family or create a 3d view without it crashing. When it works, it works. when it crashes, it burns like hell.
Pros
very easy to start in a shared central file that's hosted in the cloud with Revit. Collaboration is built in
Cons
Way too primitive editing tools. Compared to what Bluebeam does, I'm very disappointed. Also, its very error prone an has not been vetted.
Shivakant from Micro Focus
March 2018
March 2018
Great Functionality and Time-Saving tool.
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Extremely Informational
Pros
Solver has the solution our clients use to create effective and helpful reports saving their organizations not only time but money. We hear how over and over the ease of use.
Cons
Sometimes depending on the number of groupings and data, can have rendering issues; timeout when using multi-tab and even the dashboard piece of the solution set is ok but sufficient for larger or more distributed organizations.
David from RTL LLC
March 2018
March 2018
Well designed and plenty of features
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Solid tool that has everything we needed. Well thought out design and all the plugins to pull data sets from other systems are solid
Cons
We ended going with another vendor due to the price BI360. I am now writing RFPs for another company that is looking to implement BI. They are a larger company and have a budget for a tool like this
Christy from Vincit
Employees number: 5,001-10,000 employees
September 2017
September 2017
Pricey and difficult to use
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Pros
It integrated well with our ERP system. Once the financial statements we created were finalized, it was easy to run them monthly and save a lot of time producing our monthly financial statements.
Cons
If you have intercompany transactions, the "live" database isn't able to report more than one company at a time. This means you have to use the static database, which they recommended we only update once per day. On a tight close, sometimes you catch and make changes the same day as you're producing financials and this can be cumbersome. This was extremely unclear to us before we bought this software. Additionally, I am an ADVANCED Excel user. I am the company's go-to for Excel questions. So imagine my surprise when I struggled helplessly for hours trying to figure out the Excel version of the tool! It is by no means intuitive. We actually had to pay to bring in a consultant to train us on how to use it because the company's 3 divisional controllers (myself included) couldn't create a financial statement despite reading on Solver's website and watching tutorials.
Ray from NGLEP
Employees number: 501-1,000 employees
August 2017
August 2017
Overall, I am impressed with the software. The Composer interface is very intuitive to use.
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Ease of use, scheduling of daily reports, quick daily data refresh, and excellent customer service.
Pros
I like the ability to create reports in Composer, drop to Excel, and share with other users. I use the Publisher tool to generate close to 100 reports daily for the Accounting Team.
Cons
The error messaging is not always clear and concise. There are some limitations on naming tabs when running reports with expanding parameters.
