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Khaled
Verified reviewer
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2021
Hyper-Segmented Business Solution for Planning that works
Acterys leverages best-of-breed technology, SQL, PowerBI, and adds their secret sauce of enabling write back with pretty amazing techniques like splashing and planning and multi-level simultaneously. Hence we can leverage the current team and create value seamlessly with low code technologies
CONSRegular growing pains of keeping up with PowerBI deployments and continuous upgrades. Due to fast advancing technologies, you need to ensure you are adopting best practices as they are developed
Reason for choosing Acterys
New Generation technology that reduces the technical burden significantly and introduced flexibility to meet the demand of business on time
Reasons for switching to Acterys
Ease of use and web interface
John
Music, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2021
Great, affordable solution
Really a great solution that has allowed us to level up our QB-based reporting. I am still astonished by its affordability.
PROSThe use case (for us) was very QB specific, but we were not able to resolve this with any other tool without a bunch of custom modeling. Acterys offers an incredibly easy and affordable solution.
CONSNo endpoint for refreshing datasets (that I'm aware of); also, PKs seem to be regenerated with each refresh, which can be a pain.
Reason for choosing Acterys
We were not able to pull the GL as such from CData Sync. We were able to pull various other business objects, but it would've amounted to a lot of remodeling effort to get the GL view we wanted.
Jonnie
Retail, 501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2021
Enhanced and flexible BI Writeback Planning Features from within Power BI
Integrating Acterys with Power BI allowed us to replace an antiquated and cumbersome spreadsheet-based process with an online, real-time, dynamic process.
PROSThe built-in Writeback functionality and tight integration with the Microsoft Power BI platform enabled us to deliver a full Planning/Budgeting/Forecasting solution to our Users in weeks instead of months.
CONSThere are a few quirks and gotchas with using the Writeback to the Cube. Even after we thought we'd figured out all the details, they seem to come back to haunt us periodically.
Reason for choosing Acterys
Cost and integration with existing Power BI architecture.
Mario
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed September 2021
Acterys Reporting using Power BI
The whole team were more than willing to assist whenever and where ever they can.
PROSDrill down to transaction level from high level Income/Balance Sheet/Cash Flow statement
CONSSetting up the consolidation model and the mapping and calculation of the intercompany accounts
Reason for choosing Acterys
Pricing, integration with Xero and back-end system that allows drill-down to transactional level
Reasons for switching to Acterys
More versatility
Thom
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2021
XP&A in a Day
Solution fully integrated in Power BI, MS Excel and finally MS Azure/SQL Server, really seamlessly built on Microsoft technologies. Can be also setup OnPrem, which was one of our requirments. Extremely fast, performant write-back engine.
PROSIt took us literally only one day to implement an integrated financial planning model (PL, BS, CF) based on our existing Power BI reports. Fully parameterized simulation, budgeting, and rolling forecast. We could easily leverage from exisiting demo templates Acterys is packaged with. We could easily enhance our initial planning model to any further xP&A planning requirements by adding and connecting additional planning cubes.
CONSActerys provides really an overwhelming set of features, which could be challenging for beginners. But there's a great support team and the help file/Wiki with best practice samples and templates finally helping in any such situation.
Reason for choosing Acterys
Limited feature set (import functionalities, visuals), slower write-back engine
Reasons for switching to Acterys
No full integration into Power BI;
Richie
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2020
Taking Excel and Power BI to the next level
Budgeting, Planning and forecasting within a multiple entities , currencies and systems. Financial consolidation with inter company eliminations
PROSEnd to end platform. Acterys picks up the hardest part of CPM and BI... data management and data modelling. I have worked with other solutions, as soon as you get into data integration or transactional data, you start to reach the limits the system too quickly. The level of automation and flexibility is unparalleled. Beautiful Power BI templates with pre-baked financial intelligence, with the ability to build custom reports from scratch ... if you have either a planning, reporting, financial consolidation Or BI requirement and you use Excel and or Power BI, this is an absolute must
CONSGreat customer experience. Some initial configuration for the workflow
Reason for choosing Acterys
Fast ROI. Usability. End to end platform
Adriaan
Accounting, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2021
Incredible Performance & Functionality
The performance of Acterys is great. It's fast and reliable. The resource library (wiki Page) is content rich and updated regularly. The solution integrates beautifully with Power BI and Excel. The right back functionality is an absolute game changer. After engaging with this product, you get the feeling that there is a very competent team behind this product, one that has a great understanding not only how to build a great product, but how to scale it without compromising on performance. Well done to everyone involved. Incredible work.
PROSIncredible performance backed by best in the business technology like MS Azure SQL Server. There is a great set of features built into this product. The ability to add additional cubes and right back functionality is fantastic. Its easy to implement and to built beautiful reports in a day. Complicated DAX measures...it all done for you. Very impressed.
CONSThere is really a lot of features and it can be overwhelming if you do not know where to start. Once you learn to navigate the wiki page, it really does get a lot less overwhelming.
Reason for choosing Acterys
The performance of Acterys is on a totally different level than our previous solution. It's fast and it just works seamlessly.
Gavin
Import and Export, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2021
Acterys Planning and writeback - Compelling product
I have only had positive experiences from Agility [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] and colleagues have always supported me from the beginning. Never to much of a hassle to resolve my demanding issues and questions.
PROSWriteback functionality from Power Bi is amazing. We have one source of the truth and no more excel workbooks with links all over the place. No version difference. Easy to integrate and use once over the learning curve.
CONSMy only negative, and i understand now that its a feature of the product. Its not intended to be a replacement of an ERP system or database, so is limited once the cube becomes too large.
Reason for choosing Acterys
As mentioned above i didn't know of any alternatives. I do now, but believe that Agility with its local support and keen pricing is the best decision we could of made.
Gaston
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2018
Great experience and ease to use tool for planning and budgeting
Support, training, consulting and a good team worried about a satisfied client for long term partnership relationship.
PROSIntegration between ease to use tools like Excel and Power BI, so the user can use common financial tools and create stunning reports for Planning, Financial and Budgeting and control daily basis operation, with a great write back to a consistent model as a backend system. The integration with Financial systems like ABC, QuickBooks Online, and Xerox is a good tool.
CONSSome financial basic knowledge that the user need as a pre requisite. In that case the user can ask for training, webinars or support.
Vendor Response
Gaston, Thank you for the kind review of Acterys! Just one little addendum: the accounting system supported with a one click connector is Xero not Xerox.
Replied August 2018
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2021
Good product
The setup is easy and integration with the Accounting system is seamless.
CONSThe billing part is somehow disappointing as you cannot use a credit card to purchase on the site.
Reasons for switching to Acterys
One-stop reporting was purchased by another company and we're not going to support Xero.
Yury
Food & Beverages, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2021
Profit and Loss using Acterys
I like the idea of the app itself, not only to use Power BI as a reporting system, but also to enter the data needed for further use. In one place to both see a sales report and to plan future sales. It is possible to install the system both or to use as a SAAS solution. Hybrid solutions are also possible.
CONSIn our particular case, implementing the solution required serious customisation, including tons of SQL code. But the Acterys specialists handled it successfully.
Reason for choosing Acterys
Acterys provided SAAS solution that was very important for us due to a limited time available for implementation