Compare Insights and Planning Maestro - Jan 2023

Shlomi LaviShlomi Lavi / Jan 28, 2023

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Insights or Planning Maestro?

Planning Maestro is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Insights, and Planning Maestro is rated higher (87/100) than Insights (80/100). Planning Maestro offers users more features (15) than Insights (1).

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:

Options4Growth Vs. Centage Corporation

Options4Growth: With a galvanizing approach to Human Resources and Strategic Advising, Options4Growth promotes growth through people and technology.

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...

Who is more expensive? Insights or Budget Maestro?

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 Insights and Budget Maestro.

Insights accurate pricing info is available upon request (they don't share it publicly), however , On a scale between 1 to 10 OpaConnect is rated 4, which is lower than the average cost of Business performance management software. Budget Maestro price starts at $10,000 per year , When comparing Budget Maestro to its competitors, the software is rated 6 - similar to the average Business performance management software cost.

Bottom line: Budget Maestro is more expensive than Insights.

Which software includes more/better features?

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

Insights: Customizable Categories.

Budget Maestro: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Budgeting & Forecasting, Cash Flow, Credit Card Processing.

Target customer size

Insights's typical customers include: Medium and large size businesses, 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.



Insights

ITQlick rating
(4.6/5)

OpaConnect software is a cloud based strategic performance management system built for small and medium size companies. It is designed to help align business strategies with staff growth as well as to provide a...

Categories: Self-Service Portal, Employee Engagement.

Planning Maestro

ITQlick rating
(4/5)

starts at $10,000 per year

Planning Maestro is a software for mid-market enterprises looking to better manage their businesses and improve on performance. It was developed by the Centage Corporation Company which has been offering its se...

Categories: Accounting & Finance, Fixed Asset Management, Budgeting & CPM, Financial reporting, HR Accounting.

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Insights: 1 Features

Customizable Categories

Budget Maestro: 15 Features

Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Budgeting & Forecasting
Cash Flow
Credit Card Processing
Fixed-Assets
Multi-Currency
Sales Reporting
Tax compliance
Time & Expense
Agile Project Management
Budget & Expense Management
Issue Tracking
Project Management
Resource Management
ITQlick rating ITQlick Rating is based on the software score (below) and aggregated online reviews
ITQlick score ITQlick Score is a 1 to 100, the calculation is based on pricing, and functionality Vs. alternative solutions
Pricing score pricing Score is a 1 to 10 (10 is high cost), based on the TCO (cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
License pricing license pricing (if provided by the software vendor)
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Insights
ITQlick rating
4.6/5
Score
80/100
Pricing
5/10
License pricing
Pricing not available
Functionality
3
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Planning...
ITQlick rating
4/5
Score
87/100
Pricing
6.4/10
License pricing
$10,000 per year
Functionality
29
Oracle H...
ITQlick rating
4/5
Score
91/100
Pricing
4.2/10
License pricing
$9,995 per license
Functionality
14
Anaplan
ITQlick rating
4.4/5
Score
89/100
Pricing
5.6/10
License pricing
Pricing not available
Functionality
24
Infor Sy...
ITQlick rating
4/5
Score
86/100
Pricing
2.6/10
License pricing
$150 per user/month
Functionality
38

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Shlomi Lavi is an entrepreneur and founder of ITQlick.com. He holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Information Systems Engineering from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Shlomi brings 17 years of global IT and IS management experience as a consultant and implementation expert for small, medium and large-sized (global) companies. Shlomi’s goal is to share the best knowledge and news about information systems so you can make smarter buying decisions for your business.