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What do you like best about Abacum?

Abacum is always looking to understand the customer needs and improve the tool based on their feedback.

In this way all the improvements they are implementing are resolving a customer needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Abacum?

The UI. It is really nice for notes and collaboration but it needs a bit more in terms of visualization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Abacum solving and how is that benefiting you?

Budget vs real comparison and monthly review with the Executive team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abacum Overview

What is Abacum?

Abacum is the most scalable financial planning solution to automate, analyze, and forecast for strategic impact. Seamlessly integrating with your ERP, CRM, HRIS, and data warehouse, Abacum provides real-time updates to all your reports and forecasts. From management reports and scenario analyses to vendor-level budgeting and headcount planning, Abacum empowers finance teams to drive accountability and achieve results across their business. There’s a reason the fastest-growing companies can report and plan 75% faster with Abacum. To see how Abacum can automate FP&A for your company, visit abacum.io.

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Abacum is the flexible and scalable FP&A solution you can use to make better financial decisions with automated end to end workflows and real-time insights. Leverage the power of automation with Abacum to streamline financial processes, so your teams can focus on scaling and strategic decisions rather than manual tasks. With Abacum’s real-time analysis, make data-driven financial decisions, and quickly adapt to changing business needs.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

At Abacum, we believe finance teams deserve powerful tools and technology to drive strategic decision-making. Our FP&A software saves time by automating data gathering and transformation, modelling and forecasting, and creating reports for stakeholders.

Real collaboration lets you focus on important tasks with Abacum. No more endless email threads to business partners for budgeting or re-forecasting. Just add them to a space, tag them, and include them in workflows.

Stop emailing spreadsheets that are hard to track and control. With Abacum, you can manage all your data and reports in one single place. It's easy to control who can view and edit — no more version confusion or privacy worries.


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Abacum
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2020
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Abacum is the FP&A platform that automates, analyzes, and forecasts for strategic impact. End the spreadsheet struggle. Drive business results through the most scalable Financial Planning Solution. We empower finance teams to: Drive efficient growth with faster revenue forecasts, scenarios and headcount planning , Free up time by automating Board decks and monthly performance and reforecasting reports , Increase your time for analysis with all your operational and financial KPIs in one place, in real-time , Drive budget owner accountability with structured workflows. Experience the power of automated FP&A with Abacum.


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4.5 out of 5
"Transformative FP&A automation"
We've been using Abacum for 6 months, and we've been able to cut down the time we spend on manual reporting and report creation to a small fraction...
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4.5 out of 5
"How Abacum Supercharged Our Financial Reporting Velocity"
- Having a single source of truth - all of our most important data and financials are now stored in one place - Increased speed of reporting - d...
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Abacum Demo - The most scalable FP&A platform in the market
No other platform scales with you as your needs change, complexity increases and the demand for finance data grows. We’re designed to help you forecast with certainty, automate reporting and make finance teams key strategic partners.
Abacum Demo - Revenue Planning
Finance teams routinely struggle to have the time to forecast revenue effectively. Abacum changes that with automated granular modeling to help you plan for success.
Abacum Demo - Headcount Planning
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Abacum Demo - Opex Planning
Understand the cost drivers that underpin your business and construct flexible scenarios to best keep costs down.
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Collaborate on stakeholder reporting, giving clear budget vs actuals for each department in easy to use dashboards and understand the finance levers that drive performance.
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Annie N.
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Finance Director
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Abacum?

We've been using Abacum for 6 months, and we've been able to cut down the time we spend on manual reporting and report creation to a small fraction of what it was. Abacum allows us to better connect our actuals and forecast, drill down into ledger/transaction-level detail, and connect multiple data sources to use in planning and analysis. The implementation team was great and got us up and running so we could do our full budget planning inside of 4 weeks. Where we've had complex situations, our customer success manager and support team help us figure out the best setup or workarounds. The team is also very willing to make product updates and add feature requests to the roadmap. Using Abacum is enabling us to make better plans, in more detail and with better data, than we previously could with spreadsheets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Abacum?

Nothing. Where we've encountered limitations in the product, the team has been great about finding workarounds or adding improvements to the roadmap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Abacum solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were spending huge amounts of time on manual data consolidation and updates. That is all automated with Abacum - we'll go from upwards of 5 person-days per month on just data consolidation, down to < 1 day. All that manual work also led to errors, which we're reducing thanks to Abacum. Our previous planning tool was just spreadsheets; due to data/size limits, we could not plan in the detail that we need to as a business. Abacum lets us plan at driver-level, which gives us a significantly better understand of our business and financial position. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ikaika N.
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CFO
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What do you like best about Abacum?

- Having a single source of truth - all of our most important data and financials are now stored in one place

- Increased speed of reporting - decreasing our dependency on updating multiple spreadsheets unlocking time for more valuable tasks

- Very knowledgeable onboarding team - the Abacum team was very knowledgeable and helpful in getting our most important metrics on the platform for the start! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Abacum?

- No direct API connections with our most used ERP-system Xledger. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Abacum solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Abacum helps us make smarter and quicker decisions since we have cut down the requirement of manual work e.g. updating spreadsheets

- Having everything stored in the same place e.g. data from our BI-system and financials from our ERP-systems makes it easier to do valuable analysis (since you most often need both operational data as well as financial) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tara M.
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What do you like best about Abacum?

Abacum is a transformative tool for us as we scale out our organization. It was easy to use and started providing value within days of kicking off implementation. It is intuitive but also powerful, which can be a difficult line to walk. It is allowing us to democratize our financial data and empower internal planning. The Abacum team is responsive and customer-oriented, but my favorite thing about the tool is that they're often not required — it's user-friendly for even those of us not overtly trained in data management but rather focused on the business KPIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Abacum?

We did extensive diligence for an FP&A tool because as a small org, this was a big decision for us. We're pleased to report there's not a single reason we regret that decision! We made the right one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Abacum solving and how is that benefiting you?

Abacum is democratizing our financial data, allowing us to plan better operationally, and to forecast revenue realization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anastasia S.
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FP&A Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Abacum?

Customer Support is great, they are very quick to reply and help you to resolve any issues or doubts. The attention from Customer Success Manager is great, with structured monthly meetings and personalised approach.

Abacum is very open to any feedback and develop the product very fast making it much more easier to use.

The tool is quite flexible, so if a certain funcitonality is not yet developed there is always a way around it to serve our needs.

Abacum saved us a lot of time in monthly reporting and planning, and provides with a great platform to colloborate with other non financial users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Abacum?

There are not many pre-built templates we can use for modelling or reporting, this would help us to save time and also learn best practices from similar companies. However, we can always ask our Customer Success Manager or support for help if in doubt. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Abacum solving and how is that benefiting you?

Speed of monthly closure and reporting

Monthly rolling forecast

Consolidation of data from varios sources for visualisation

Collaboration with non financial users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Capital Markets
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What do you like best about Abacum?

Customer Support has been outstanding, the tool is easy to administer, implement and rollout. The tool is very dynamic, easy to create reporting, modeling, etc. I like that they are constantly updating the software, looking for feedback on improvements, adding new features and their Abacum Academy has a lot of detailed instruction and best practices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Abacum?

Would be helpful if we were able to budget\forecast using a combination of formulas and manual inputs, right now it's either one of the other. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Abacum solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ability to easily share monthly results with the leadership team, in detail. Also having the ability to easily create spaces that filter & report data based on a defined criteria, so easy to manage! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Abacum?

The flexibility of creating models, structures, and reports is impressive. The way new items easily flow into the dimension structures and aggregations is remarkable. A static - or even a dynamic - Excel structure can hardly ensure this.

The implementation team was super supportive of all matters and came up with creative workarounds when needed. As of today, we have completely cut off our highly complex Excel-based planning and forecasting model and switched to Abacum, with the key stakeholders also on board.

Also love the constant developments and new features. "What's new" is my favourite item on the menu bar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Abacum?

Although the implementation team provides high-quality support, you also need to have at least a basic understanding of the system's logic and limitations to transform your old modeling structure to Abacum. Otherwise, you may have to rebuild certain parts again.

Several dynamic items are still missing: dynamic filters like Excel slicers, formatting limitations on spaces, and handy solutions to switch between planning scenarios. I hope these will be covered soon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Abacum solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are running all of our FP&A processes and models in Abacum (or linked to Abacum) now. So literally everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Abacum?

Abacum is an extremely powerful, easy-to-use, FP&A platform that can cover all of your budgeting and reporting needs. It has been very easy to implement and their support team has been top notch to work with. We have been able to integrate with all of our major platforms, pull in all necessary data, prepare dashboards (which they call "spaces") for leadership and department heads, and establish a much better budgeting process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Abacum?

We did an extensive search before choosing Abacum and are very pleased with our choice. Some of their competitors warned us about a portion of their team being based in Europe (we're a US-based org) but that has not been an issue at all. Our implementation team must work crazy hours because they've been very available to us despite the time difference. Also, we were warned about the need to write formulas in their modeling process but just as we were assured by our sales team, their formula syntax is very intuitive, easy to learn, and has not been a burden at all. All that to say - we have no concerns about Abacum at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Abacum solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our initial purpose for finding Abacum was to get a better platform for our bottom-up budgeting process. Obviously, when we found Abacum, it is so much more than that. Not only will it make budgeting so much easier for our department heads, but will also provide really excellent reporting, dashboarding, and communication about all things financial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vinicius C.
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What do you like best about Abacum?

Abacum is a modern planning and reporting software with a flexible approach to integration, modeling and usability. The platform is clean and easy to use by users.

As integration goes, I've never had such a great experience with vendors. They are very customer oriented, results-driven and focused on product development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Abacum?

As they are a new software company, some features still don't exist. They try to accommodate the best, develop as fast as possible and work on workarounds, but sometimes it's just not possible if it's an immediate/urgent need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Abacum solving and how is that benefiting you?

I had three main problems that Abacum is helping me to solve:

1. Distribution of information and internal customers interactions

Now I have a simple place to share information, request explanations from business areas, produce reports and execute budgeting and forecasting in a participative manner;

2. Modelling and budgeting process complexities done manually

My company is from Brazil, and we have very complex payroll regulations. Also, the number of internal customers I need to attend has been growing very fast and we could not keep up with manual file sharing with SoD to everyone. Now with Abacum, I can do both of those things easily.

3. Monthly reporting done manually

All the financials reports, KPI's, SaaS metrics and some OKR's were built manually by my team. This process would take several days; now, with Abacum reporting, integrations and modeling capabilities, my goal is to reduce this time by more than half. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robert S.
RS
CFO
Computer Software
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Abacum?

Very powerful reporting and analytical tool. It significantly reduces the time FP&A spends fixing reports, correcting errors and creating different views. It also allows for better exploring of our own data, something that is harder to do when simply using a spreadsheet. Connects well to key data sources which for a company like ours is Sage Intacct, Salesforce, BambooHR as well as Google Sheets etc. FP&A is now able to spend more time analysing and exploring and less time compiling reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Abacum?

DataViz options for building tailored visualisations (similar to Tableau) can be somewhat limited, making some visualisations a bit repetetive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Abacum solving and how is that benefiting you?

FP&A uses Abacum to connect to key data sources in the company (Sage Intacct, Salesforce, BambooHR, other key spreadsheets) and automates the compilation of key reports. This signficantly reduces errors and time to report, which allows FP&A to do more analysis and less time compiling reports and troubleshooting errors and reconciliations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CB
Finance manager
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Abacum?

The visibility & comparisions between data versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Abacum?

takes alot of time to set up to initiate using the software properly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Abacum solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data visualization and a proper financial management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.