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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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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?

The availability of Jamie Perkins to assist in explaining the features and benefits of the software. Additionally, the usefulness of the tool for the applications that I need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

I only dislike the lack of a "whiteboard" working space for group discussions. Adding this would help our conversations even more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I use it as a project management tool to lay out our different projects and communicate the project layers to our teams. In comparison to other tools Cascade has allowed our teams to function much more effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

Cascade provides our organization with a level of transparency we've never experienced before. Traditionally siloed teams have insight into what other groups are working on, facilitating a new level of engagement and cross-team collaboration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

The only downside of Cascade is there's nowhere to hide! Full transparency exposes your areas of stagnation or little growth (which honestly is positive). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cascade forces our team to get organized from the very beginning and think through how we're actually going to achieve our goals and what steps are required to get there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

I like the flexibility of the system which allows me to report up to the Executive team and the Board, while at the same time operationalising our strategy. We can also prepare rpeorts for other senior stakeholders. This allows us to have appropriate governance and transparency in our work, with little or no additional burden. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

The product is still evolving, and so occasionally we find somethign we'd liek to do but can't. However the team are very responsive in addressing new ideas or providing useful work arounds. Very little I don't like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cascade:

If you need a straightforward tool to support both operations and strategic planning, this is the one to look at. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I need to report up two separate hierarchies, which is ordinarily a painful process of duplciation. Using Cascade, all work is done once and I can do whatever reporting is necessary to meet different stakeholder needs. But most importantly, it is helping us operationalise the strategy on a day-to-day basis, keeping my team in touch with activities and helps us manage our work across locations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

With the ability to build multiple structured plans, we have been able to align, communicate and track the progress of our goals within and across departments in our organisation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

Snapshot reports can be slow to update, especially with a large amount of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cascade has helped us transition from an Excel-based planning and review culture to an efficient solution for our business. Using structured plans, we have been able to align, communicate and track our goals' progress within and across our organisation's departments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shelby T.
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What do you like best about Cascade?

The interface is intuitive, the reporting is comprehensive and customizable, and the support team is knowledgable and responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

There is nothing I dislike about the Cascade product or organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cascade helps our organization to create strategic and operational goals and manage projects in a streamlined way, and creates visualizations so our whole team can see and understand how our goals fit together and how we are progressing toward goals in real time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

The delivery team (Ariel Fox) and (Nic Dirk-HA) They have both been exceptional, patience, helpful and gone beyond to ensure the onboarding process is smooth Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

Not discovered one yet, when i do would inform Ariel, which i am sure she would fix as she has always done.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

An Enterprise PPM tool for our organisation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

I think the most useful feature for us was the reporting features, both dashboards and snapshots. This was really powerful for us to have concise, accurate and live reports for not only our entire business plan but down to individual projects and programmes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

I think for someone in the role I am in, PMO, being able to have the ability to not only look at the overarching strategy and cascading that down but also being able to understand the dependencies of tasks or even project to project would have been very powerful. Cascade at present doesn't quite have that capability but in fairness, it was not their original USP so I understand why this wasn't in place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cascade is solving the problem of being able to link business strategy and strategic goals to individual teams/business units to show them just how important and impactful there work can be for a business to achieve its goal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

We had a great experience with Bec Lee, who helped us work through issues we had with our plan. Bec went above and beyond to get our strategic plan uploaded into Cascade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

Cascade did not provide us with adequate training to set up our plan. Bec saved the day! If it were not for Bec's willingness to help and her can-do attitude, we would be looking for new software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cascade has helped to bring multiple divisions together to work towards a common strategic goal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

Cascade has given my company a single source of truth when it comes to our goals and what specific actions the business is taking to get there. The interface is flexible and customizable when it comes to including custom fields and aligning goals to multiple areas of focus. The Cascade team seems to be available around the clock for solving urgent asks and they have also been incredibly responsive when it comes to building custom solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

I would like to see greater flexibility in building visuals in the dashboards. Additionally, the main working space (called the planner) would be made better if we were able to slice and dice to the same extent as the reporting feature (snapshots). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cascade:

Leverage the Cascade support team - they are experts in planning the implementation of this tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Before Cascade, our leadership team found it challenging to identify what our strategy was across the enterprise. There was no single, aligned area that defined what actions each of our businesses were taking to improve. With Cascade, we have been able to have one place our leadership team accesses to see progress against our goals and pinpoint where they need to provide support. We have also been able to eliminate about 80% of our efforts searching for strategy material to reference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cascade?

Cascade helps us to align all our plans by connecting various plans to one another. Cascade as helps us execute plans by utilizing their robust platform to facilitate the whole process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade?

There is not a lot to dislike about Cascade but one thing that I could recommend it some greater option on formatting the snapshots and dashboards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cascade is solving our alignment of our annual operating plans from the system level all the way down to each operating department with our organization to create one vision. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.