Vendor:
Founded:
Headquarters:
Centage
2002
Boston, MA
Customers:
Deployment Model:
Free Trial:
10,000+
On-Premise
No
Planning Maestro At A Glance
Product Overview
Planning Maestro is a cloud-based intelligent planning, budgeting and forecasting solution that helps small and midmarket organizations make quicker and informed financial decisions. Users can build a complete budget, perform numerous what-if scenarios and more. The software has pre-programmed business logic and accounting rules to build and manage budget models more simply.
Planning Maestro helps users make driver-based, collaborative budgets and plans simple to build and manipulate through reports and dashboards that show both the current health of the business as well as automated forecasts.
Features
Planning Maestro focuses on budgeting, planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis. Some of its core features include:
- Budgeting – This software allows users to build a fully complete and accurate budget that is accessible anytime, anywhere.
- What-if scenarios – Users don’t have to code or program in order to change their budget models instantly. Planning Maestro allows for dynamic and infinite what-if scenarios.
- Forecasts – Users can automatically generate an accurately forecasted balance sheet and cash flow statement based on any model or assumption.
- Define it yourself – Planning Maestro allows users to define drivers, spread methods and mass assumptions for any model scenario for deeper customization.
- Customized dashboards – Users can understand their data more simply and easily share it through customized financial dashboards with drill-down and slice-and-dice analysis capabilities.
- Integration – Seamlessly integrate with a General Ledger to ease budget vs. actual analysis.
- Multiple contributors – Allow numerous budget owners or contributors access in order to have one single source of data truth.
- More than spreadsheets – Budget and report by customer, product, location, division, manager, channel and more. The budget models also include multi-entity balance sheets and cash flow reporting, multi-dimensions reporting with roll-ups, integrated income statement, and more.
Target Market
Planning Maestro is built for small- and mid-market companies of all industries. We’ve listed 10 of its clients below.
- Alliance Tire
- Bard Date
- Brandeis University
- Home Service Stores
- Immune Design
- Vermont Country Store
- Risk Strategies
- Hames Corporation
- Wagner Asia Equipment LLC
- SerenaGroup
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Implementation/Integration
Planning Maestro’s implementation methodology is a four-step process:
- Discovery – This initiates JumpStart, a process that reviews existing goals, structure and constraints, including business objective identification, evaluation of current systems, and a review of best practices.
- Configure – Configuration is accomplished with straightforward prompts, wizards and menus, bypassing the need for formulas or programming. This step includes accounts and financial reporting views, entities and operational reporting views, assumptions (including payable and receivable schedules, business drivers, expenses model and more), data transfers, and validation.
- Educate – Planning Maestro consultants share tools and techniques through knowledge transfer, administrator training and a train-the-trainer technique.
- Go Live – After a company starts using the software, the customer service team provides ongoing support and user feedback.
Planning Maestro integrates with Microsoft Dynamics 365, Sage ERP, SYSPRO ERP, and QuickBooks. It is also designed to work with any general ledger application.
Customer Service & Support
Centage offers a Support Portal that features a large knowledge base of articles as well as email and phone support.
Clients receive technical support only with an Annual Maintenance Services (AMS) Agreement, which is a yearly fee that’s 20% of their current license price. This service includes:
- Live phone technical support
- Support via email
- Response time of 24 hours or less on most tickets
- 24/7 access to the online knowledge base
- Immediate access to product updates and upgrades
- Maintainance updates, hotfixes and patches
- Full licensing and installation assistance
- Invitation to participate in beta programs
Pricing
Centage does not publicly release its pricing information. Please contact the vendor directly for a quote.
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Planning Maestro isn’t a full accounting solution. Instead, it intently focuses on budgeting, planning, forecasting, analytics and reporting.
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About
Centage Corporation was founded in 2001 with the Budget Maestro family of solutions made to streamline budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidation, performance analysis, and reporting processes for small to medium-sized organizations.
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