Centage

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Business budgeting, planning, forecasting & analytics

About Centage

Centage’s Planning Maestro is a cloud-native planning & analytics platform that delivers year-round financial intelligence, transforming how companies budget, forecast and report performance. Centage delivers a level of sophisticated financial intelligence typically only enjoyed by large enterprises, at a price point accessible for SMBs. With a direct line-of-sight into the organization’s financial health, Centage helps clients react quickly to market changes and capitalize on new opportunities.

Centage has a long history of developing and delivering exceptional software for SMB finance teams. By listening to CFOs and financial experts and gathering insights from thousands of our own users, we’ve built an intelligent solution, Planning Maestro, that truly breaks the mold for financial planning and analytics.

Key Features of Centage’s Planning Maestro

Automation. Planning Maestro automates and streamlines routine tasks, significantly reducing the time needed for ‘busy work’ and freeing up the team to focus on providing timely insights and analysis for strategic decision support
Visibility. Planning Maestro delivers a direct line-of-sight into the organization’s current and future financial health with integrated cash flow, balance sheet, and P&L forecasting and reporting all connected to meaningful data contained in ERP and back office systems.
Accuracy. Planning Maestro integrates and normalizes data from multiple sources, accuracy is ensured, and mistakes are eliminated. A single source of truth makes it easier to know-with confidence - what to do first and why.
Collaboration. Planning Maestro enables collaboration with operational stakeholders cross the business - constantly test assumptions and possible outcomes – deliver accurate forecasts and practical recommendations for course correction that are backed up by rock solid data and insights.
Agility. Planning Maestro supports connectivity with virtually any data source - on premise or in the cloud, allows for highly flexible, multidimensional data models with the power to run on-the fly calculations and organize, analyze and visualize large data to slice and dice business performance in different ways.


Key benefits of Centage

  • Planning Maestro offers full functionality straight out-of-the-box, with no IT involvement. As a hosted application, it’s also maintenance free.

  • Planning Maestro includes out-of-the-box income statement, balance sheet and cash flow reporting. The software comes with 40 pre-built, customizable GAAP/IFRS-compliant reports.

  • Wizards, drop down options and menus guide users through the budgeting, planning & reporting processes.

  • Planning Maestro’s multiple, unlimited what-if scenarios enable business managers to confidently make good decisions.

  • Users can create synchronised profit & loss, balance sheet & cash flow reports. Each will update automatically based upon actuals and profit/loss assumptions.

  • Expenses can be allocated by type: Financial & operational modeling, expense & revenue budgeting, and workforce planning can all be separately allocated.

  • Users can collect and consolidate profit & loss data confidently with Budget Maestro’s built-in financial logic & driver based planning.

  • Planning Maestro centralizes and consolidates data for better forecasting; users can align actuals with budget data.

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    Excellent product that my company uses weekly.

    Reviewed on 2018/02/07

    Pros

    I found this product very easy to learn. That said, I am a CPA. Excellent tools for budgeting and forecasting. Very user friendly

    Cons

    We had some problems importing and exporting to excel. It took a while to set this system up and train staff to use it.

    Matthew
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    • Industry: Real Estate
    • Company size: 51–200 Employees
    • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

    Powerful Product, Too Much for Some Applications

    Reviewed on 2024/12/05

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

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

    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.

    Kathlee
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    • Used Daily for 1+ year
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    Budget Maestro is a solid tool, and I'm looking forward to enhanced features and functionality...

    Reviewed on 2018/05/21

    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

    BJ
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    • Industry: Accounting
    • Company size: 51–200 Employees
    • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Planning Maestro

    Reviewed on 2021/06/11

    Centage has been great to work with, from implementation to today, they have been a true partner on...

    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.

    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.

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    Reasons for Choosing 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.

    Reasons for Switching to Centage

    Planning Maestro had all the features we needed including, integration into our accounting platform, personnel tracking, report capabilities, etc.
    Shelly
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    • Industry: Wine & Spirits
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Daily for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Excellent, Intuitive program

    Reviewed on 2022/04/07

    The implementation of the product was smooth. The reporting capabilities of the program have...

    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.

    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.

    Alternatives Considered

    NetSuite

    Reasons for Switching to Centage

    Budget focused, ability to plan over multiple years, price.
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    2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

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    Centage integrates with the following applications:

    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT, Dynamics 365 Business Central, NetSuite, QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Online Advanced, SYSPRO, Sage Intacct

    Centage offers the following support options:

    Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat

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