Drivetrain Pros and Cons

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

Limitations on new addition require changes in old reporting

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

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

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

-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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

- 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.

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.

User-friendly interface

Versatile uses

Attentive and Proactive Support Staff

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

Occasional Sync issues

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

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.

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