Limelight

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Cloud FP&A software for growth driven finance

About Limelight

Limelight is cloud FP&A software for finance teams to drive growth, agility and every critical decision their business makes.

Hundreds of CFOs across North America use Limelight to uncover the insights and models that lead to successful business plans - and greater influence, respect and recognition for their finance function.

For their finance teams, Limelight puts an end to struggling with spreadsheets and stereotypes. Replacing manual data collection with engaging work that impacts their business future. To deliver budgets and reports 75% faster with 100% accuracy.

We’re proud to serve leaders in sectors including not-for-profit, healthcare, higher education and manufacturing. Companies running on Sage Intacct, NetSuite and Microsoft Dynamics. And the most satisfied customers in the business.

Like most modern FP&A software, Limelight automates finance workflows and integrates with ERP and data sources. Our SOC compliance and controls deliver audit-ready transparency. With reporting and analytics to get the right insights to the right decision makers at the right time.

What really makes Limelight stand out is our:

• Measurable Ease of Use: software your users will learn in minutes and master in a day, with the familiarity of Excel and admin as easy as an app.
• Self-Serve Modeling: build new models, hierarchies and dimensions with the skills finance already has.
• Ad Hoc Reporting: - build custom reports, analyses and queries on any metric or data set, for the answers you need in minutes.
• Deployment in Weeks – enjoy quick implementation, onboarding and time to value to go live in weeks, not months or more.
• Out-of-the-Box FP&A – pre-built models, templates and reports to deliver new value the minute you go live.

Founded in 2011, Limelight is built on decades of expertise in the financial technology space. Our team includes pioneers who built the first generation of FP&A solutions over 20 years ago. Today, we’re continuing that tradition by shaping the next generation to come.


Key benefits of Limelight

  • Integrated Financial Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting & Reporting - combine the best of Excel and the Web into a single workspace with automated consolidation for instant analysis.
  • Cost and Revenue Planning - produce several iterations of cost & revenue planning, apply drivers and immediately see variances.
  • Reporting and Analysis in Real Time - our self-service reporting lets users to make their own reports, dashboards and ad-hoc queries, which allows them to make profitable decisions using important numbers and trends.
  • Automated Rolling Forecasts - re-forecast dynamically on any quantity of actual periods.
  • Cash Flow - monitor your cash position very closely and automate calculations via direct links to the P&L and Balance Sheet.
  • Workforce Planning - integrate directly with your internal Payroll & HR systems and receive the latest headcount data and automatically calculated taxes, benefits & bonuses.
  • Sales Commissions - sales representatives can see their commissions, track key performance metrics and view their rankings at any time.

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    • Industry: Construction
    • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
    • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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    Best reporting solution for your budget!

    Reviewed on 2019/04/25

    Limelight has been a tremendous partner that we are extremely grateful for. They listen, execute...

    Limelight has been a tremendous partner that we are extremely grateful for. They listen, execute and advise on best practices to fulfill our reporting needs and goals.

    Pros

    I like how easy it is to use, create, administer and maintain all functions around the reporting. We find it a breath of fresh air with a dramatic leap forward from previous solutions and competitors. The people and service was truly the key as they tailored it to our liking. They are truly a partner that listened and executed well to fulfill our vision.

    Cons

    There are only minor enhancements that we would like for the software however, the limelight team listened well and already have those improvements in the roadmap in the very near future.

    Arlene
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    • Industry: Biotechnology
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Medicinal Genomics Limelight Review

    Reviewed on 2024/06/26

    From implementation to full usage the experience with Limelight has been nothing short of Stellar! ...

    From implementation to full usage the experience with Limelight has been nothing short of Stellar! The Customer Service is far superior to any other company I have worked with in the past.

    Pros

    Customer Service and Ease of Use. The Implementation & Report Writing Team was nothing short of Stellar

    Cons

    There was really nothing that I didn't like about Limelight

    Leah
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    • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Daily for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Limelight in Eye Care

    Reviewed on 2025/01/27

    I use Limelight daily to schedule patient appointments.

    I use Limelight daily to schedule patient appointments.

    Pros

    I like that Limelight gives patients the ability to schedule online without having to call the business.

    Cons

    Sometimes Limelight has issues when multiple users are on one account. Can create issues like double booking or miscommunication.

    RODERICK
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    • Industry: Entertainment
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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    Good but Expensive

    Reviewed on 2024/09/16

    There is a lot of potential but it doesn't work for smaller businesses due to the a la carte...

    There is a lot of potential but it doesn't work for smaller businesses due to the a la carte charges.

    Pros

    Creates a decent dashboard that captures all elements of a budget

    Cons

    Cost is too significant when you want a customized report.

    James
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    • Industry: Financial Services
    • Company size: 201–500 Employees
    • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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    Reviewed on 2023/07/19

    It's still relatively early, but so far so good.

    It's still relatively early, but so far so good.

    Pros

    Once set up API connectivity brings in balance data monthly with a lot of ease.Customer support has been great.There is a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it there is a good deal of flexibility with report building to represent many different kinds of calculations

    Cons

    Excel upload is not standard. Each upload type would have to be built by them (at extra cost) rather than being able to just use a relatively standard template.Not their fault, but the API call for transactional data has no flexibility. All transactions have to be loaded which is a drag on API call time and size.In order to see the transactional line items you have to be at the lowest level of dimension. It would be nice if you could have a roll-up but still be able to see the transactional detail rather than needing to expand down however many levels.Building reports has an Excel feel, but not the flexibility. You have to actually type a cell reference rather than being able to use mouse or cursor to select a cell

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    Limelight offers the following pricing plans:

    • Starting from: US$1,400.00/month
    • Pricing model: Subscription
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    Limelight has the following typical customers:

    51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

    Limelight supports the following languages:

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    Limelight integrates with the following applications:

    ADP GlobalView Payroll, Acumatica Cloud ERP, DataBlend, Deltek Maconomy, Deltek Vantagepoint, Dynamics 365, Epicor Eclipse, IBM Cognos Analytics, Infor Cloud ERP, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI, NetSuite, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, Paylocity, Qlik Sense, QuickBooks Online, Sage 100, Sage 500, Sage Intacct, Sage X3, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Tableau, Xero

    Limelight offers the following support options:

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

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