Navigating Market Reports and Perspectives
Trying to navigate the many resources available when researching software solutions? Use this guide to find out which are most relevant to your financial performance management goals.
Navigating Market Reports and Perspectives
What’s Your Perspective?
There are dozens of analysts, influencers, customer review websites, and reports that offer recommendations for software solutions to support your financial processes.
But whose insights suit your needs, industry, and goals?
A lot of industry research exists covering Planful and the broader market for financial performance management solutions — and sifting through that research can be overwhelming.
This guide walks you through every major analyst firm and customer review website to determine which perspective best matches your needs.
Which is best for your company?
Crowdsourced Vendor Reviews
Customer review platforms such as G2, Gartner Peer Insights, and TrustRadius have become increasingly popular as buyers look to the real world usage and feedback from their peers. These sites provide an unvarnished glimpse into what customers really think of different vendors, from the opinion of their users.
Each review platform operates a little differently and often serves different audiences, so make sure you choose which site and respective reviews best match what you are looking for in a solution.
Best for:
Software buyers at small businesses
Research format:
Reviews and scores similar to Yelp for software solutions
Planful category:
Budgeting Software
Capterra
Capterra, founded in 1999, offers free resources to help small businesses make the right technology decisions. It connects software buyers with software vendors using customer reviews to help those buyers find and evaluate solutions. Capterra is part of Gartner Digital Markets, which is a business unit within Gartner, a major analyst firm. Gartner also runs the similar Gartner Peer Insights, detailed below.
Planful earns a 4.1 out of 5.0 among the 300+ vendors in the budgeting software category, which includes everything from Quickbooks and niche $9/month offerings to mammoth SAP and Oracle solutions.
