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Drivetrain Overview

What is Drivetrain?

Drivetrain is a next-generation financial planning, monitoring and decision-making platform. Our cross-departmental software helps teams build integrated plans, budgets and forecasts, track their progress against targets in real-time, and identify bottlenecks to growth. Drivetrain consolidates data from over 200 business systems such as Salesforce, NetSuite, Quickbooks, Workday, and Looker to create a single source of truth and simplify business performance measurement. Drivetrain powers several category leaders giving them a forward-looking view of their business to make faster, confident decisions. To learn more and to see it in action, visit www.drivetrain.ai or send a note to learn@drivetrain.ai.

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Modern finance teams are looking for better ways to plan and make decisions based on data. The existing tools are either legacy systems built with age-old tech, available only to the top-end Enterprises and requiring tedious implementations. The other alternative is to resort to spreadsheets with their obvious limitations and flaws. Drivetrain is building a strategic finance platform that enables finance teams become a strategic partner to the CEO in making confident data-backed decisions and in bringing predictability in business growth.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Drivetrain is a powerful yet easy-to-use financial analysis software that empowers finance teams with integrated planning, real-time tracking, and advanced reporting and analytics capabilities. Drivetrain integrates with ERP, CRM, HRIS, and Billing systems to create a single source of truth for all your data. Our budgeting and planning software enables dynamic scenario modelling and facilitates efficient revenue planning. Drivetrain’s intuitive interface and AI-driven insights enable faster, better decision-making, making it an ideal strategic planning solution and forecasting software.


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2021
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Drivetrain is a financial planning & decision-making platform that helps businesses scale and achieve their targets predictably.


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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Top-Notch Performance: My Experience with Drivetrain"
We have seamlessly integrated our Quickbooks, Chargebee, Hubspot, and Gusto data into Drivetrain, significantly expediting the model creation proce...
Sergio B.
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Sergio B.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Fantastic planning tool with great ease of use."
My overall experience with Drivetrain has been great. The tool is extremely easy to use and very intuitive. Producing new reports is seamless and u...
Aaron B.
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Aaron B.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Incredibly powerful+agile FP&A platform w/ great onboarding support+time to first value"
very knowledgeable onboarding and support team, quick response times, deeply integrated with implementation. Platform can be built to accommodate a...
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Drivetrain Demo - Connect and sync data across your tech stack
Drivetrain consolidates data from over 200 business systems such as Salesforce, NetSuite, Quickbooks, Workday, Looker, and more to create a single source of truth and simplify business performance measurement
Drivetrain Demo - Drivetrain Boards – Create your board presentation in minutes
Create and share interactive, board-ready reports and dashboards that your investors can view on demand. Our ever-growing template library will help you get started quickly. Create actionable dashboards to analyze metric trends such as Bookings, Billings, ARR, churn, LTV, cash flow, and more by ...
Drivetrain Demo - Consolidate and track performance in one place
- Bring together your financial and business applications to track all key metrics in one place. - Monitor budget vs. actuals, cash balance and runway forecasts in real-time. - Conduct variance analyses by any relevant driver. - See the financial impact of changes to departmental plans (...
Drivetrain Demo - Financial Modelling on Drivetrain
Built as a ‘system of metrics’ defined using simple English formulas, Drivetrain enables companies to build easy-to-understand, multidimensional and collaborative financial models - 10x faster - reducing the risk of manual errors
Drivetrain Demo - Speed up analysis to drive better business strategy
Drivetrain enables you to use the drivers and assumptions in your financial model to create and compare What-If scenarios in minutes. Identify key drivers and anomalies with one-click root cause analysis to optimize revenue, cost and profit
Drivetrain Demo - Understand the full impact of your hiring decisions
- Create a headcount walk at a granular level to account for new hires and attrition across regions, departments, designations, etc. - Connect headcount to P&L and cash flow models to understand the impact of new hires and internal movements on your bottom line and future cash flow.
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Gopal S.
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Senior Manager Finance and Accounting
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Drivetrain?

Customization reporting, ERP & Excel integrations, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Drivetrain?

Limitations on new addition require changes in old reporting

Errors leads to hold all reportings Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Single platform for All P&L & BS schedules

Dashboard reporting

Various reporting format such as MTD, YTD etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Satish K.
SK
Assistant Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: In-app
(Original )Information
What do you like best about Drivetrain?

It help us to automate the reports that consume lots of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Drivetrain?

somewhere we need to put manual intervention to automate the process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

time saved in preparing financial statement and we are able to analyse FS in detail after automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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What do you like best about Drivetrain?

-Drivetrain can connect to all my upstream datasources to build the sort of real-time reporting I need.

-Everything you can do in Excel, you can do better in Drivetrain (and then some).

-It uses a similar cell-based structure and formula language so the transition is seamless.

-You can set up your "remembered" metrics (i.e. ARR, CAC, Burn, etc.), feed them into your models, and then build reports ontop of your model(s) to expose results and forecasts to various audiences at your company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Drivetrain?

The data transforms aren't self-service (yet...I know they're working on this). I rely on a dedicated support rep to create joins and other transforms across datasets to produce the key datatables I need for my reporting. Once this is done, it will be fully self-service end-to-end and extremely powerful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We moved all of our excel-based modeling into Drivetrain, which handles everything in a much more transparent and controlled way (assumptions, metrics/KPIs, forecasts, etc.). It also is the only place we've been able to produce consolidated financials (our ERP isn't able to do it yet) outside of excel, so we are able to have a consolidated view of our business in real-time, including historicals and forecasts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Praveen R of Drivetrain

Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We're glad to hear that Drivetrain is helping consolidate your financials and deliver real-time insights with accurate reports and metrics tracking. We're pleased to know the transition from Excel to was seamless.

We hope the data transformation tools we'd launched a few months ago have enabled you to manipulate your data sets in a completely self-serve manner now. Would love to hear how you're liking the ability to define data transformations using ChatGPT-like natural language prompts besides SQL-like syntax for building our your advanced transformation logic.

We'll continue to roll out more tools and features to help you and the team model, report, analyze and derive insights faster.

David O.
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Commercial Director
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Drivetrain?

Centralising data, helpful team, good visualisations, lots of custimation options, always updating features, e.g. weekly forecasting, etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Drivetrain?

Integration with Xero hasn't been seamless, modelling takes quite a bit of getting used to, lack of year on year analysis functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Centralising data from several systems and visualising it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The customer service is amazing. Dheeraj is available to help us to understand the product and fix issues. Without him the implementation would have been way longer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Drivetrain?

It did take some time to fully implement the system and get everything set up the way we wanted. However, the support team was great throughout the process, providing guidance and assistance whenever needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

For my part I am only using the People roster module and it is very user friendly. We didn't use the budgeting module for next year because we didn't have enough time to test it but I really hope next year we will do all our budgeting in Drivetrain 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 Drivetrain?

Easy to navigate and a very flexible FP&A platform. Iwas a power user / admin of an AdaptiveInsight instance and when transitioning to using Drivetrain, I found the transparency behind model logic, the similarity to excel, the ability to import any data structure into the platform, and the the structure of the model really ease to use the biggest highlights for this tool.

At first, the modeling logic at first seemed daughting to learn, but after spending a day learning about how to build models, it was easy to recreate complex financial models into the platform ranging from a hardware BOM cost model, cohort modeling for forecasting, ARR modeling, and opex driver based models.

The platform is very flexible and allows you to slice and dice data within the platform with ease. This allows me to adjust the model at fly quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Drivetrain?

Creating new data sets and mapping the data to new "lists" or mapping groups still requires someone on the backend in Drivetrain to link the data up. This means when building new models or data sets, you have to currently rely on your CS rep to help build the linkage.

They've mentioned this is a commonly requested feature and I hope they build this functionality out since it'll allow power users to build models quicker from new data sets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Automation of operating reporting, ability to navigate messy data, streamlining ARR reporting, ability to recreate excel models, data consolidation from different data sources and file times, automating headcount modeling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Praveen R of Drivetrain

Thank you for your feedback! We're pleased to hear you found our multidimensional modeling capabilities powerful, yet easy-to-use. We're also thrilled to hear that our report automation capabilities and data consolidation prowess stood out to you as some of the key highlights.

We hope the rollout of the self-serve data transformation tools have given you more flexibility and control over your data. Looking forward to your thoughts on both the Natural Language prompt and the SQL syntax features for creating advanced transformations. If you need any assistance, please reach out to me or your customer success manager.

We truly appreciate your feedback, and we're continually improving Drivetrain to make your experience more self-serve. Looking forward to continue serving you through this FY25 budgeting season!

Abhilash K.
AK
Revenue Strategy and Operations
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Drivetrain?

The architecture of being able to combine multiple sources of data and track with plans and actual in a seamless manner has been the best part of Drivetrain.

The support from the team during the implementation as well as constantly upgrading the features in our tenant organically has helped our business case immensely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Drivetrain?

The product currently is about 90% self serve. Would love the product to become 100% self serve in due course of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

a) Helps us get all sources of data in a singular place for financial reporting

b) Our use cases have grown from just reporting to forecasting to do a whole bunch of use cases from both FP&A and RevOps usecases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andrew D.
AD
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Drivetrain?

- Reporting: Drivetrain has allowed us to automate a majority of our financial reporting, from board decks, monthly closes, flux analyses, BvAs out to budget owners, etc. It has already saved us significant time, only a handful of month after beginning the implementation process.

- Powerful & Flexible Forecasting Capabilities: Drivetrain has very flexible forecasting models that allowed us to build our entire forecast, from top-line, expenses, balance sheet & cash and all be interconnected with eachother & our other systems. The formula writing is intuitive and has a short learning curve when transitioning from excel.

- Implementation: The implementation team has exceptional expertise and provides fantastic customer support. The implementation was smooth and we were up and running with all of our finanical models, custom dashboards and reports in a few months. The team was always available and great to work with.

- Integration:We were able to integrate seamlessly with our key systems, Salesforce, NetSuite & GSheets. This integration streamlines our financial processes and ensures that data flows smoothly between different systems.

- Collaboration: As a Finance team member I wanted a tool that serves all of my forecasting & reporting needs, but also wanted something that would allow for cross-functional collaboration. Drivetrain's reports are perfect for this with features like tagging people in comments, user level restrictions, customizable & visually appealing graphs, charts & tables.

- User-Friendly Interface: One of the standout features of Drivetrain is its intuitive interface. It's incredibly user-friendly, making it easy for both finance professionals and non-finance stakeholders to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Drivetrain?

I have yet to encounter any issues with the platform that the customer success team hasn't taken back to their team and included in their next round of product updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Drivetrain is automating our financial forecasting, reporting & KPI tracking. These three items have been a massive time-saver for us already as they use to involve a lot of manual effort and are now updating in real-time. Drivetrain is also consolidating data from multiple different sources to provide non-finance stakeholders a one-stop shop for getting the information they need. We are also using it for headcount management with hiring plans being available to the approriate hiring managers within the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Accounting
TA
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
(Original )Information
What do you like best about Drivetrain?

User-friendly interface

Versatile uses

Attentive and Proactive Support Staff

Regular updates and improvements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Drivetrain?

Occasional Sync issues

Time zone difference leading to delays Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The software has reduced user error by establishing a direct connection to our databases and systems. This integration automatically populates fields with accurate, up-to-date data, reducing the need for manually entered data results in more employee up time and less issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Drivetrain?

Love that they make onboarding so easy - they take the time to do the hard lifting of constructing models and you get to reap the efficiencies and benefits Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Drivetrain?

I would love for Drivetrain reports to integrate directly with slides or powerpoints Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Drivetrain solves the issue of having a central source of truth that stays consistent across the entire business that people can access and view at different levels. It keeps the entire company on the same page which is invaluable when trying to operate at scale Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.