Shlomi Lavi /
Jul 04, 2022
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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Planning Maestro or PlanGuru?
Planning Maestro is more expensive to implement (TCO) than PlanGuru, and PlanGuru is rated with the same score (87/100) as Planning Maestro (87/100). Both tools offer the same amount of features.
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. PlanGuru
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...
PlanGuru: PlanGuru is budgeting and forecasting software designed to help businesses and nonprofits make better decisions. Whether it’s a high level forecast for the bank or a detailed multi-departmental operating budget, PlanGuru can enable you (or your team) to produce a more accurate analysis in less time.
Who is more expensive? Planning Maestro or PlanGuru?
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 PlanGuru.
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. PlanGuru price starts at $99 per month , When comparing PlanGuru to its competitors, the software is rated 2 - much lower than the average Business performance management software cost.
Bottom line: Planning Maestro is more expensive than PlanGuru.
Which software includes more/better features?
We've compared Planning Maestro Vs. PlanGuru 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.
PlanGuru: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Balance Sheet, Budgeting & Forecasting, Cash Flow.
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. PlanGuru was first developed with financial professionals in mind and was oriented towards CPAs, CFOs and other types of financial advisors.