Comparison

Pigment vs Planful

Learn why organizations switch from Planful to Pigment.
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plan

Integrated planning at its best

Allow your finance team to become a true business partner.

  • Native, business-owned data integrations
  • Finance, sales, and HR plans connected natively and in real time
  • 360 visibility with fine-grained access controls
list of business applications integrated with Pigment
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merge

Single platform experience

Leverage a single platform to address your business needs.

  • A unified UX for end users and administrators
  • Simplified data management
  • Intuitive model building experience
forecast

Built for the end user

Access a library of point and click calculations designed for end users.

  • On demand spreadsheet experience
  • Interchangeable reporting dimensions
  • End-to-end workflows and advanced collaboration capabilities

Transform the way you plan

Automate data imports UI

Automate your data imports

Access all your data with direct and real-time integrations

Automate your imports with the Scheduling feature

Benefit from a single source of truth

Native scenarios UI

Run native scenarios on the fly

Create scenarios in one click

Visually compare all possible outcomes in a single chart or grid

Make your scenarios read-only to prevent unwanted data inputs and imports

Spreadsheets experience UI

Access a spreadsheet experience

Switch to a familiar spreadsheet view without leaving Pigment

Leverage Excel formulas and functions within Pigment’s secured platform

Use it as a scratchpad environment, and feed the results back to your model

Create reports UI

Create stunning reports

Conditionally format any data quickly and easily emphasize areas of focus

Create KPI cards, charts and grids for executive reporting

Build quality reports with drill down and investigative features

Administer forecast UI

Easily administer your forecast

Create a new forecast and rollforward a period in one click

Use a single forecast version across all models to ensure alignment

Compare and analyze forecasts to surface trends

Automate data imports UI
Native scenarios UI
Spreadsheets experience UI
Create reports UI
Administer forecast UI
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The #1 Planful alternative is Pigment

Planful

Multidimensional modeling engine
Granular access controls and audit logs
Real-time integrated planning

By connecting in real time teams, applications and use cases in one platform, Pigment enables seamless data flows and provides organizations with a single source of truth.

Planful provides a suite of products that don’t fully interact with one another. Connecting and maintaining a connection between them can be a clunky, time-consuming process.

Increased collaboration

Teams can easily add comments directly at the cell level, assign tasks and notify collaborators of changes, in any model or report.

Collaboration in the platform is limited to reporting only, with users not being able to add a comment directly into a model or a plan.

Simple model maintenance

Pigment provides a single platform with a single source of code, owned and maintained by business users.

Maintaining a suite of 3 solutions requires a variety of skill sets and complex coding language, which may result in relying on external consultants.

Native direct integrations

Pigment integrates directly with your source systems and continues to develop new native integrations.

Integrations are not native and go through a third-party platform. Setting up a new integration may result in additional costs over time.

Native what-if scenario planning

Business users can create and update any number of scenarios in one-click, allowing them to quickly visualize and understand the impact of their decisions.

Versions are not native in all of Planful’s products and therefore don’t interact with one another, which may lead to forecasting discrepancies.

Flexible planning

Because Pigment isn’t limited in capacity or number of users, organizations can easily adapt their models to their evolving needs.

Previous Planful users have moved to Pigment because the platform would often break when making changes.

Intuitive modeling

With Pigment’s natural syntax, building a model is within everyone’s reach - no need to learn a new language. With the Formula Playground, users can even test the outcome.

Planful’s products Dynamic Planning and Structured Planning each come with their own code base, which may lead users to learn how to model in two different technologies.

"Amazing experience using Pigment for our internal process and annual planning needs. The system is easy to use, adapts to our organization's needs and the product continues to innovate."
IT Services · 30B+ USD
"Good experience implementing the tool, very strong user interface making it easy and fun to use. Stakeholders have been impressed by the look & feel which helped rolling it out to a broad audience."
Consumer Goods · 3B-10B USD
"Its ease of use, advanced analytics and collaboration capabilities make it a valuable asset for any organization looking to improve its performance and achieve its goals."
Finance · 500M-1B USD
"Futuristic planning and modelling platform. Provides excellent user experience, is highly adaptable, sleek , and saves us a TON of time. Could not imagine forecasting without it."
IT Services · 250M-500M USD
"Pigment is a very user friendly tool. It really is capable of doing magic in terms of financial planning."
Software · 3B-10B USD
"Pigment has become an invaluable tool in our organisation, both for actual margins analytics and scenario modeling."
Retail · 50M-250M USD
"We now have a collaborative tool to better steer our budget and be more efficient during forecasting period... We have onboarded many stakeholders and receive very positive feedbacks."
Services · 50M-250M USD

Further reading

Report

2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Financial Planning Software

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The Total Economic Impact™ Of Pigment

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