Limelight

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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Creates a decent dashboard that captures all elements of a budget

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Cost is too significant when you want a customized report.

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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

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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

Vorteile

Our most impactful feature is our forecasting process, and it has become the basis of all major decisions

Nachteile

Our biggest issue has been over engineering. During the set up phase we had great technicians but they didnt quite seem to grasp the whole picture. Anytime i am trying to change my global variables or scenarios i have run into issues because of over engineering. We are working to get it fixed, and the customer service is great.

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What stands outs are the custom solutions offered by the technical staff and the ability to re-engineer processes to achieve better results.

Nachteile

The parts of the software that are excel like should continue to add more excel features. This will help users who are transitioning from excel learn the software faster.

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The automatic import of data from our accounting system is invaluable for reducing work and human error. The flexibility of this software for building reports has helped us automate much of the manual reporting we were doing.

Nachteile

For more complex reports, the load time can be slow, especially if you have a lot of people in the system.

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Responsiveness of customer service and data analytics / coding team

Nachteile

Difficulty in modeling a non-traditional workforce

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It is so customizable and the implementation team has done a great job in translating our numerous Excel files to a workable and easy method of budgeting templates and input pages. Our employees love that it still looks like Excel, so the transition was smooth.

Nachteile

It takes a lot of dedication and time to test and fully implement, although I think that would be true for any budgeting software since each company is unique. There are some sorting features that I'd like Limelight to have the capability of doing with the click of a button versus manually (sorting by employee name, account number etc), but they told me they've let their development team know so hopefully it will be a feature in the near future.

Vorteile

El software Limelight permite gestionar proyectos además de que los equipos pueden colaborar y comunicarse de forma eficiente.

Nachteile

Por el momento no tengo nada que señalar negativo.

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Es una herramienta muy util que reemplaza el uso de herramientas mas comunes como excel debido a que optimiza todo enormemente.

Nachteile

Le falta algunas opciones de modificacion que podrian ser utiles en su uso.

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The workforce planning tool has been the biggest improvement to our processes, providing insights and projection accuracy that we didn't have previously. We're able to get both employee counts and paid time historically as well as projected values through our projection period.

Nachteile

While the workforce planning module has been the most useful tool to us, it's also been the most challenging to set up and run. This was a new process for us, and we have 35+ end-users in limelight. Most of our challenges have been creating an environment with intentionally limited input options so users don't "break" the calcs. Limelight's support team has been very responsive, even after go-live implementation, in helping solve our data input and template challenges.

One other item that has been a blessing and a challenge is the report books function. While this has been improving even in the first 6 months since implementation, the process for setting up a report book, identifying errors when the book fails, and outputs to excel are still a little challenging, and not as user friendly as much as the rest of the system. This is an area where I can see opportunities for big future improvements.

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The data import from our ERP and timely and accurate, and the reports generated for financial statements and internal reporting are critical to our monthly financial review.

Nachteile

Report building is a little complicated, but the trade-off is the support staff is very responsive in helping you trouble shoot your report building problems.

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Being in the service industry, our most important expense is wages and it happens to be the most complex expense in our organization combining multiple collective agreements, progression rates, multiple benefits, and also incudes multiple funds , regions and departments. Limelight designed a combined integration of input from our accounting data base and manual overrides with recalculations that gives us the most accurate budget all the way down to the individual employee. What would normally take dozens of excel spreadsheets in all done through a few templates and flow trough to our financial statements under budget column

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Limelight was able to provide us with all the necessary features so there is really nothing that I do not like in the software. It does take a bit of getting used to to navigate the steps but Limelight provided training and went so far as provide us with our own personal how to instructions .

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It has a better user interface than the native TM1 software.

Nachteile

We were hoping to have Single Sign On right out of the gate but owing to our specific environment in our company, it did not go smoothly during implementation and we needed to push it to the next phase.

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It’s reliable, accurate, and fast. If there are any issues, it’s easily fixed.

Nachteile

I like it all. It all works exactly like it should.

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Right from the start, the platform was visually familiar and seemingly uncomplicated. Its ability to communicate with our accounting software, virtually seamlessly, promised to increase our ROI on the time committed to completing variance reports and conducting variance analysis.

Throughout the demos I couldn't help but think "this is too good to be true, nothing is this easy". I was convinced of its benefits from the end user perspective but was concerned about the potential complication of the back end or maintenance of the software. Much to my surprise, Limelight was true to their word, the back end and maintenance has been just as smooth as promised.

Nachteile

Given that I am still in the construction stage, I am not in the position to comment on this aspect as of yet. So far, I am extremely pleased with the entire process, as well as the amazing team that introduced us to Limelight along with their colleagues who have worked with us to build the platform to suit.

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Customer service is really good. The CDN functionality is awesome and helped speed up our website considerably.

Nachteile

I don't think there is anything we disliked about Limelight, even the pricing is reasonable, so nothing to complain about !

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The best part of Limelight is the ease of use. It's very user friendly and easy to pick up. It does not require hundreds of hours of training like other software does. It does exactly what our company needs and the entire Finance department was able grasp the functionality within minutes.

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We have no cons, it works exactly like we had hoped.

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I love the ease of use and the availability of reports it's capable of producing. It's helped with our closes and FP&A reporting tremendously!

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There isn't much if anything that I haven't liked with this software. It's super easy to use and allows instant reporting for financial presentations.

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The software is simple to use and resembles Excel in many ways which made it an easy switch for our users.

Nachteile

The end user does not have much control/ability to customize reports (i.e. they cannot sort based on any column; that is hard coded in the back of the report).

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This software has enabled our company to have instant P&L reporting , whereas in the past we had to make manual reports every time to needed to run financial data.

Nachteile

The only thing i don't like is that I cannot drill down to GL activity.

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The implementation process has been proceeding on schedule and our implementation consultant truly understands the FP&A function which has added great value to the process. While we're not yet complete with the implementation, the process has been very flexible allowing complete customization to our company specific requirements, including reporting We are looking forward to our user acceptance testing and go-live.

Nachteile

At this point in our process, I have not identified any cons and the application is on a path to function as advertised and provide the value and efficiencies we were seeking as we move away from an Excel based planning tool.

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The software offers a lot of flexibility. I can present data in report format which is much more useful than the typical dashboard presentation views in other tools. The ability to use limelight for both data collection applications as well as distribution is great. The natural connectivity to Essbase means I don't have to invest much time in changing my existing reporting platforms to leverage limelight. I have had the tool now for 3 months and have successfully written over 30 reports that will serve 100+ users easily. My management team is excited about what we will be able to do with limelight to minimize data management overhead within the finance organization.

Nachteile

Graphing needs to be enhanced. Some small tweaks to report development would go along way. Looking forward to seeing version 3.

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Simple software. It works well for simple applications.

Nachteile

Lacking some functions since it's a relatively new product, but the engineers are constantly working to improve.

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The ease of slicing and dicing the data to get the answers you need, easy filtering.

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Needs a sort and search field on payroll resource planning template.

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The software is very easy to use and manage.

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Inability to change column or row members once a template or report is created.

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Limelight's ease of use to slice and dice financial information is second to none. Whenever there is a financial question, limelight is there to solve it. The continuous support of their staff has also been key to our analytical growth as an organization.

Nachteile

The only real con would be to standardize more of the expressions rather than having to know code (ie: previous or next member).

Vorteile

The ease of use, reliability, and customer support.

Nachteile

Limits on customization for dashboards when compared to platforms like Power BI

Vorteile

Easy to implement with support of Limelight project management team.
Flexible product.
All cloud so easy to deploy within the organization.

Nachteile

Nothing negative yet on Limelight implementation and use.

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Vorteile

The software is very easy to use. It functions similarly to Excel which made it a great choice for my company since we were on a very tight implementation deadline. The support is also great. Any issue that we had while implementing was addressed immediately and typically only took a day or two to resolve.

Nachteile

The software does have its limitations. Our company structure is very complex which made it challenging at times to integrate certain aspects of our budget into Limelight.

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Ease of use is a big plus as well as ability to create your own reports.

Nachteile

No drill-down ability but that's not something the software ever claimed to do. In the future if Limelight can bolt on to ERP for real time drill-down ability, I would be interested in that product.

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The functionality is very strong, and like the excel based platform that makes it very easy to navigate through.

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There isn't much that I don't like about the software.

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We reviewed several sw solutions that were much more expensive and Limelight was the most flexible and simple to use. The team at Limelight really "gets it" -- they should open a recruiting service!

Nachteile

Some basic items had to be requested -- such as printing on 11x17 paper -- but Limelight is nimble and addresses any concerns.

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The initial conversion process was seamless.

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The vast amount of software capabilities are high level and is a lot to retain.

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Limelight gives a solid base for planning and productivity.

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Very focused, haven’t been able to expand it to other projects