Compare OpenBooks and Planning Maestro - Jul 2022

Shlomi Lavi

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

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

Looking for the right Budgeting & CPM 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:

IRIS Vs. Centage Corporation

IRIS: With 30 years\' experience, IRIS Software provides business critical software and services to the UK accountancy and SME sectors.IRIS has more than 15,000 UK accountancy practice customers, who rely on IRIS every day to run their business, improve efficiency, increase profitability and save money. With 98% customer retention, IRIS is the most...

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? OpenBooks or Budget Maestro?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Budgeting & CPM 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 OpenBooks and Budget Maestro.

OpenBooks price Has a free version , On a scale between 1 to 10 OpenBooks is rated 4, which is lower than the average cost of Budgeting & CPM 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 Budgeting & CPM software cost.

Bottom line: Budget Maestro is more expensive than OpenBooks.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared OpenBooks Vs. Planning Maestro based on some of the most important and required Budgeting & CPM features.

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

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

Target customer size

OpenBooks's typical customers include: Small, 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.