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Cascade Overview

What is Cascade?

Cascade is a global software company, consistently ranking as the world’s #1 strategy execution platform. At Cascade, we make visions happen by acting as the strategic brain of your organization, remediating the chaos of running your business so that you can move forward. Thousands of leading organizations leverage the Cascade platform to plan, execute, and track their strategies for realized performance and accelerated decision-making. Our customers are redefining the world–executing strategies that range from deploying life-saving vaccines to building the world’s fastest Formula One car. With Cascade at the helm, you’ll find it easy to: ✔Plan: Map your business to establish where you are today, helping you get where you want to go. ✔Execute: Connect the dots, creating a central view of your strategic progression with full context & visibility. ✔Track: Maximize your returns by reporting how your strategy contributes to your overall performance. Features you’ll love - ✔ Strategy Planner - Centralize your strategy to add structure and drive consistency. ✔ Metrics Library - Connect your business data directly to strategic focuses. ✔ Reports & Dashboards - Gauge an accurate picture of your strategic performance. ✔ Alignment & Relationships - Visualize how different plans interact & track dependencies. ✔ Team Management - Delegate ownership & set permissions. ✔ Integrations - Bring all of your information together under a single source of truth. Move your business forward today with Cascade. Book a demo or try it for free today: https://www.cascade.app/book-demo

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Product Description

Cascade is a complete software solution that makes it easy to turn your strategy into reality. Helping you to create your plan, engage your people and track results.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Cascade is the only platform built to span the entirety of your ecosystem to understand the relationships between your business inputs and outcomes. While other products focus on individual or team-based efforts, Cascade looks at the bigger picture. The platform allows you to connect the qualitative with the quantitative in your strategy--creating a holistic view of your performance and showcasing how your different business metrics, initiatives, and investments impact one another.


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Year Founded
2016
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Cascade is the world's #1 strategy execution platform helping thousands of organizations make their visions happen, through building their business and departmental plans, right through to tracking and execution of initiatives, team performance and more. Our customers are redefining the world as we know it - from battling the AIDS epidemic and establishing a supply chain for COVID-19 vaccines, to building the world’s fastest Formula One car.


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Recent Cascade Reviews

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5.0 out of 5
"The best in strategic planning software!"
Cascade is a fantastic strategic planning implementation software. It offers many of the features of a standard project management software, but wi...
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Amit S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great product and really helpful"
The alignment feature helps communicate the plan across the organization. Other features where you can have KPIs and plans are fabulous; they keep...
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Luciano M.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Software that helped us setup strategy and align the team around it!"
The UI, the dashboard overview, and the team alignment. It's ultra-easy to create and plan tasks and goals.
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Cascade Demo - Execution Hub. Get better visibility over the execution engine humming inside your organization.
A single view to see where all your dependencies, blockers, and risks lie across the organization. Defog your execution web to easily reallocate resources, eliminate unnecessary work, reprioritize initiatives, and accelerate progress.
Cascade Demo - Metrics Library. Get complete visibility into your business health.
Consolidate business metrics from different systems, tools, and spreadsheets on one platform. Connect your measures to important business metrics to see which initiatives are moving them forward and get complete visibility before you plan your next strategic move.
Cascade Demo - Strategy Dashboards. Run cross-department analysis to adapt in minutes.
Real-time dashboards for you teams to better understand which efforts you should quickly scale, adapt, optimize or stop.
Cascade Demo - Advanced Report Layouts. Your reports, the way you REALLY want them.
Reports that can be fully customized to support what the narrative requires in the most visual ways.
Cascade Demo - Cascade Planner. Make your planning cycles shorter and execution-focused.
Cascade’s planner brings structure and ease to building strategies by breaking them down into high-level objectives, business metrics they impact, and a series of initiatives, milestones, and programs that are executable and trackable.
Cascade Demo - Strategy Update Hub. Keep everyone updated and aligned to drive focus.
Let your team know how things have been progressing by posting updates on your measures, actions, objectives, or even about the work of entire teams. Keep all your stakeholders aligned, making sure everyone is working towards the same results.
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What do you like best about Cascade?

Your strategy in a glimpse, for everybody to be aligned and involved. Very effective, an invitation to focus on your goals and keep track day to day. What is more important than enssuring you and your team are walking together in the same direction? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

Haven't found anything yet!! It's a flexible tool and for what I read there are constant updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Having the strategy well known for everybody in the team and aligned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

I'm thrilled with the system; everything from its interface to the collaboration tools has been an enormous help. Since we began using the software, we have become a more focused team. It's straightforward to use, and because of that, we've been able to integrate it into our workflow effortlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

As yet, there hasn't been anything we dislike about the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cascade:

Utilise the Free Trial, you won't regret it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our problem was staying focused on a common goal and ensuring everyone in our team was executing to achieve that goal. Cascade helps us keep our strategy on track. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

Swift building and visualization of strategic objectives with links to goals, projects/initiatives, KPI's etc. The terminology and framework used being completely customizable from application's interface by a super user. A draft plan is then deployed to the organization where teams start adding their goals in alignment with the high level plan.

End user acceptance is very high due to intuitive interface. We have experienced users starting to enter their plans only after a few hours of training.

Once initiatives/goals are approved, tracking kicks in where you can define periodic update tasks and reminders to ensure projects/tasks and related risks are updated regularly.

Out of the box views and reports are great and still there is room for building custom dashboard and reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

A feature linking tracking of goals to individual performance management workflow existed in previous version and it was removed from the new releases of software some time ago. This was so unique and made sense to us and it still exists in our deployment . We would love to see it back and improved in the new releases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Communication and alignment around key strategic objectives. Prioritization and focus together with engaging employees via clear goals and real time tracking and feedback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

The responsiveness of the team. Excellent customer service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

The platform continues to undergo improvement. This a positive thing, but it means you have to relearn and get familiar with the changes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are using Cascade Strategy to manage the implementation of our strategic plan. it is very helpful in tracking or work progress and monitoring the level of engagement. As such, it ensures that stakeholders are accountable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gerard O.
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What do you like best about Cascade?

The Cascade platform is flexible, user-friendly, and truly multifunctional. It makes the work of building, tracking and managing a strategic plan fairly straightforward. These are important features for users in our client industries (higher education and non-profits). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

It can take some time to truly become proficient but the outcome is worth the investment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cascade:

Spend time at the front end of the implementation process learning how best to make the platform work for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cascade helps our clients to visualize what their plans will look like and how goals, objectives, actions, and costs all align. Cascade also functions as a communications system as well as a tracking system, which allows users to let other users know when updates have been made to the plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

The dashboard is fantastic, my team uses this for every Friday meeting. It allows us to know if we are meeting our targets for sales deadlines or are falling behind and specifies by how much on specific metrics that we set. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

It would be helpful when cloning goals to edit the dates and or targets for all clones. This would be a huge time saver for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cascade:

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

We are able to track our lease-up timelines to ensure occupancy is achieved and adjust our strategy if we are falling short or ahead of timelines. This software also creates a healthy competitive sales atmosphere for our agents to compete with one another on sales goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

Ability to collaborate with staff on the Strategy! Cascade software flows well, so most Strategic plans can be added without making major changes. I love how the Software makes you stop and think about the business actives and projects and how they align to an overall strategy. With more people working remote, offerings like Cascade can add a lot of value to the business with low cost of input. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

Not much really, it's highly flexible tool. If rolled out to a lot of staff, it may need easier ways for Low level staff to engage, but the system is fast, reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cascade:

You need to delete all the prompts from the demo and add your own data to get a real sense of how it works for your own requirements - Cascade seems happy to do this for me, send a Strategic plan and they will present it back in their software for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cascade has been instrumental in allowing our teams to collaborate while working remotely.

High Level Strategy is typically discussed within Face 2 Face meetings and planning sessions. Using Cascade we have been able to collaborate in real time with the planning team to update and realign the company strategy. Without Cascade I am not sure how this could be done. We use other tools like Office365 and Monday.com but these don't collaborate well when changes are required - they are more tracking tools for things you have already completed. The ability to group our KPI's and Projects into the different spheres of Strategy is probably the most unique feature that I have never seen before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

It is intuitive, easy to use, and considers every important aspect. It's flexibility to adapt to our plan was amazing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

It would be great to have a fully multilingual version Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cascade:

We are a small company; the founders also have wide experience working with strategic planning. We were looking for something to meet our needs, and literally loooked everywhere; we compared about a dozen options. Cascade was, by far, the best choice, offering everything we were looking for, at an affordable price, and with great flexibility of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Having a place to host our company strategy, use it as a basis for our strategic followup meetings, keeping everyone aligned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

The software is very customizable and user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

The platform tends to load very slowly at times and the demo button oftentimes does not work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cascade:

The software is extremely customizable. Do not panic because it does not come with features you are looking for out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Helping clients to become aware that there is an alternative to the ad-hoc way they are currently doing strategy execution and helping them get there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

The tool helps me to easily create my objectives, measures, and initiatives. I can also create parent and child relationships. The reporting engine is fantastic. The dashboards are beautiful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

The weighting system needs to be more user friendly as it is confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cascade:

It has a little learning curve but awesome once you master it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The monitoring of our corporate strategy is now automated thanks to Cascade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.