Longview Analytics delivers powerful business insights by integrating comprehensive data analysis with cutting-edge financial planning tools. It supports informed decision-making by offering a seamless experience in combining data visualization with in-depth reporting capabilities.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Longview Analytics | 2.8% |
| Anaplan | 6.5% |
| Adaptive Insights | 4.9% |
| Other | 85.8% |
Specialized for advanced data management, Longview Analytics is a robust platform designed to address complex analytical challenges. It empowers organizations to convert raw data into actionable insights through sophisticated features like predictive analytics, forecasting, and real-time data integration. Its capabilities help optimize financial processes and streamline operational efficiency, ultimately enabling strategic growth and competitive advantage in rapidly changing markets.
What are the key features of Longview Analytics?Longview Analytics finds broad application across various industries by aligning with sector-specific needs. In finance, it supports accurate budget forecasting. Retailers use it for demand forecasting, optimizing inventory, and supply chain management. Healthcare organizations leverage it for operational efficiency and patient data analysis. This adaptability showcases its versatility as a valuable tool across multiple sectors.
Longview Analytics was previously known as arcplan, Longview Close, Longview CPM, Longview Tax.
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| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Technology Lead Onsite at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees | 4.0 | I found this product excellent for multi-dimensional forecasting and scalability, backed by great support. However, its initial setup was painful, and its lack of developer-friendliness requires significant scripting and automation. |
| Sr. Business Analyst at Archer Daniels Midland Company | 4.0 | I used Khalix for its simplicity and customization in forecasting and reporting. Though ETL was challenging and technical support varied, it was stable. The high cost relative to slow user growth was a key reason we stopped. |
| Sr. Project Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees | 3.5 | I've used this solution for nine years, finding its sophisticated financial planning, constant rate reporting, and currency translation very valuable. Deployment is easy and support good, though web reporting could improve. |
| Lead Functional Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees | 3.0 | I find Longview for Excel crucial for consolidated financial views, and it's quite stable with decent technical support. However, I believe it needs better database integration and improved user-friendliness compared to Hyperion. I think it's a good fit for SMEs. |
The ability to report multi-dimensionally and the scalability.
This tool is mainly used for forecasting, and it will, for sure, help all the organizations that need data/reports on expenses and headcount forecasting.
This could be made more developer friendly, and could include the ability to implement automation scripts.
I have used it for more than four years.
The database setup is a pain initially, but once it's done everything works fine.
The application was stable most of the time.
Scalability was very good in this product.
It's very good and quick.
Technical Support:They're good and efficient.
The initial set up was complex and painful, both with respect to database setup and the execution script.
We used a vendor team who were very good.
This product is good, but from a developer stand point, you will end up in writing more scripts. I would advise to do automation, as most of the jobs can be automated.
Its simplicity and customization are the distinct features.
Khalix is a simple tool that builds on existing data sources to develop solutions in forecasting, planning and consolidation needs. I've used this tool to build a position reporting system that help traders and managers to make informed decision in risk management. I also developed a dashboard that showed forecast margins and KPIs for operations. It standardized the reports and charts for users across my organization with less effort
The link between underlying details, upfront reports, and charts is weak. However, as a simple top end tool, the display details is not its purpose. However, having a way of easily inspecting details would add to its functionality.
I used Khalix (the last version before upgraded to Longview 7) from 2008 to 2014.
The biggest challenge was the data ETL (Extract, Transform and Loading) process. There is fewer built in architecture out-of-box, so I had to build this from scratch. Having some templates out-of-box might reduce the development cycle significantly.
With only 400+ users, we hardly had any stability issues. Most downtime was server related and not specific to the software.
9/10 as they are a very user friendly customer service team and they are always responsive and promoting the exchange of new ideas.
Technical Support:6/10 as the consultant team was not providing us with good practices. For some work, we have had to redo what they have done. Some consultant are more knowledgeable than others.
No previous solution used.
It was a straightforward set up as Khalix is based on eight dimensions. This makes it straightforward when mapping data but there is some complexity when deal with static data.
We worked side-by-side with a vendor team. I'd highly recommend to do it this way for an easier hand-over. As mentioned above, the vendor teams expertise wasn't up to expectations. They didn't provide the best practice at first. We have had to re-work some of the project.
The original cost is set to use enterprise wide but the users growth is too slow to justify the cost. That's one of the reasons we stopped using this tool.
Yes. They're SAP BI and IBM Congros.
Three key elements to consider when adopt this tool:
Constant Rate Reporting across the entire organization became easy.
Web based reporting can have better user interface and functions.
I have used this solution for the last nine years.
No, deployment is easy.
Only a few times did we encounter issues with stability and the cause was that the product hardware configuration was not up to date with the increased volume and user base. New versions are better than older versions.
No issues encountered.
8/10 - They are a very prompt and knowledgeable customer service support.
Technical Support:8/10.
I have not personally used it, but organizations that used TM1 earlier switched to Longview because that tool was not meeting some of the organizations needs.
It's straightforward but one needs to be an administrator in order to do the setup
I have implemented the product through both vendor team and in house one. I would rate vendor team at 8/10.
Yes, we also looked at TM1, and Hyperion.
This product offers wide range of corporate performance management tools for powerful financial consolidation, planning and reporting.
Longview for Excel is of utmost importance.
Well certainly this product has helped many finance users in the organization as this product enables them to see the numbers for any cost center and business unit and also get a consolidated view of group level numbers.
It should definitely have an added application for databases. Why I am saying this is because I was a hard core user of Hyperion application at one point in time and I have worked as an administrator on it. So if you compare it with Oracle then Longview isn't that user friendly.
I've use it for two and a half years.
I was part of the administration team and also joined the organisation much later when it was already implemented.
The system is pretty stable, but since it's technology, you cannot completely run away from issues. At the same point in time the issues were manageable, and we never came across a situation wherein we completely shut down the application from users interface.
Not really.
6/10.
Technical Support:8/10.
I am an employee with the organization, prior to this I was working with WNS as a Hyperion system administrator. I shifted due to personal reasons but not due to the system.
No idea about this, but we do have license costs involved.
No.
In a country like India, which is one of the most emerging markets and there's a huge scope and demand for new systems, tools and BI applications and when companies like Oracle and SAP are coming with newly innovated Financial Management tools which are very expensive and can be used only by bigger organizations who can afford it. I would think India can be a successful market for Longview as they can provide their services to SMEs.
