Compare Planning Maestro and 4CastPro - Jul 2022

Shlomi Lavi

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Planning Maestro or 4CastPro?

Planning Maestro is more expensive to implement (TCO) than 4CastPro, and Planning Maestro is rated higher (87/100) than 4CastPro (62/100). Planning Maestro offers users more features (15) than 4CastPro (3).

Looking for the right Business performance management solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

Centage Corporation Vs. 4Cast Solutions

Centage Corporation: Centage Corporation is the world leader in automated, budgeting and planning software solutions for small to medium-sized organizations. Since 2001, thousands of managers at all levels have utilized the Budget Maestro family of solutions to streamline their budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidation, performance analysis, and reporting process...

4Cast Solutions: 4CastPro was developed by chartered accountant Richard Walliker to fill a gap, observed in his work as FD consultant, between companies such as SAP and IBM at the one end and Sage at the other. 4CastPro has been developed to date almost exclusively as a partner product to Access Dimensions, although it does offer links to Sage 50(via ODBC), Pegasus...

Who is more expensive? Planning Maestro or 4CastPro?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Business performance management software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for Planning Maestro and 4CastPro.

Planning Maestro price starts at $10,000 per year , On a scale between 1 to 10 Budget Maestro is rated 6, which is similar to the average cost of Business performance management software. 4CastPro price starts at $63.24 per month , When comparing 4CastPro to its competitors, the software is rated 6 - similar to the average Business performance management software cost.

Bottom line: Planning Maestro cost is around the same cost of 4CastPro.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared Planning Maestro Vs. 4CastPro based on some of the most important and required Business performance management features.

Planning Maestro: this software is considered "feature-rich" with more than 10 important features, here is a partial list: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Budgeting & Forecasting, Cash Flow, Credit Card Processing, Fixed-Assets, Multi-Currency, Sales Reporting.

4CastPro: Data Import/Export, Basic Reports, Online Customer Support.

Target customer size

Planning Maestro was developed to serve many kinds of industries, from public to private, startups to mature and from family-owned operations to Fortune 500 organizations. and 4CastPro's target customer size include: Medium and large size businesses.