Vareto offers the modern FP&A platform for leading strategic finance teams.
Vareto is the best financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform alternative to Adaptive Planning (formerly Adaptive Insights). Vareto unlocks the magic of having planning, forecasting, and reporting together in one easy-to-use, next-gen platform.
Unlike Adaptive, Vareto puts the power in your hands. Implementation is as fast as four weeks with Vareto’s in-house Customer Growth Managers. There’s no need to find a third-party consultant or purchase an expensive connector to get you fully onboarded and running. Finance users can set up models natively within Vareto and enjoy spreadsheet-like flexibility and the familiarity of Excel formulas and keyboard shortcuts. No technical skills are necessary for business users to plan, access, or create reports. Easily build and customize beautiful reports and dashboards without the need to write any code. You’re in the driver’s seat — all it takes is a few clicks before you’re ready to share.
Implementation timing
As fast as 4 weeks.
A few months; can take more than a year.
Implementation cost
Included.
Additional cost; ranges from $20,000 - $100,000.
Implementation partner
Personalized setup and custom onboarding with in-house, dedicated Customer Growth Manager (with hands-on FP&A experience) as thought partner.
Need to hire an external Adaptive implementation consultant.
Native integrations
50+ native ERP, HRIS, CRM, and other business system integrations (e.g., NetSuite, Salesforce, ADP) with in-house support.
Data integrations with ERP tools such as NetSuite are difficult to set up.
Ease of use
Walk-up usability for finance and business users alike. Finance users can set up models natively within Vareto enjoying spreadsheet-like flexibility and the familiarity of Excel formulas and keyboard shortcuts. No technical skills are necessary for business users to plan, access, or create reports.
Complex system with a steep learning curve that requires significant training. Adaptive formula logic is different than Excel logic — not all formulas are available in Adaptive. Excel models may need to be revised to be incorporated into the tool.
Collaboration with business partners
Designed for streamlined collaboration between finance and business users. Share self-serve dynamic reports and plans with the benefit of granular access permissions (by report or tab) to control who sees what. Gather inputs from and collaborate in real time with comments, @mentions, and annotations.
Designed primarily for FP&A experts rather than business users. Able to add notes, but collaboration with business users happens outside of the tool.
Data management
No-code data management features empower the finance team to make self-serve changes.
Changes must be done by external consultant or BI team, which takes time and added cost.
Reporting
High customization, with the ability to set custom metrics and a robust ability to manage own general ledger mapping.
Reporting isn’t fully customizable, with limited formatting and display options. Difficult make updates to reflect underlying changes in the business without third-party consultant or backend engineering support.
Transaction-level drill downs
Access the latest transaction-level data in a few clicks.
Though technically accessible in tool, a complex and roundabout workflow with difficulty getting to transaction level detail.
Performance
Able to support 50+ departments, with 100 finance and business users concurrently.
Not well supported.
Workforce management
Fully accurate source of truth of the current state of your headcount and related expenses.
Not supported.
Disclaimer: The comparison information on this page is based on publicly available information reviewed as of November 1, 2022. Please contact marketing@vareto.com for any suggested corrections.
Implementation timing
As fast as 4 weeks
A few months; can take more than a year
Implementation cost
Included
Additional cost; ranges from $20,000 - $100,000
Implementation partner
Personalized setup and custom onboarding with in-house, dedicated Customer Growth Manager (with hands-on FP&A experience) as thought partner.
Need to hire an external Adaptive implementation consultant
Integrations
50+ native ERP, HRIS, CRM, and other business system integrations (e.g., NetSuite, Salesforce, ADP) with in-house support.
Data integrations with ERP tools such as NetSuite are difficult to set up
Ease of use
Walk-up usability for finance and business users alike. Finance users can set up models natively within Vareto enjoying spreadsheet-like flexibility and the familiarity of Excel formulas and keyboard shortcuts. No technical skills are necessary for business users to plan, access, or create reports.
Complex system with a steep learning curve that requires significant training. Adaptive formula logic is different than Excel logic — not all formulas are available in Adaptive. Excel models may need to be revised to be incorporated into the tool.
Collaboration with business partners
Designed for streamlined collaboration between finance and business users. Share self-serve dynamic reports and plans with the benefit of granular access permissions (by report or tab) to control who sees what. Gather inputs from and collaborate in real time with comments, @mentions, and annotations.
Designed primarily for FP&A experts rather than business users. Able to add notes, but collaboration with business users happens outside of the tool.
Data management
No-code data management features that empower the finance team to make self-serve changes
Changes must be done by external consultant or BI team, which takes time and added cost
Reporting
High customization, with the ability to set custom metrics and a robust ability to manage own general ledger mapping.
Reporting isn’t fully customizable, with limited formatting and display options. Difficult make updates to reflect underlying changes in the business without third-party consultant or backend engineering support.
Transaction-level drill downs
Access the latest transaction-level data in a few clicks.
Though technically accessible in tool, a complex and roundabout workflow with difficulty getting to transaction level detail.
Performance
Able to support 50+ departments, with 100 finance and business users concurrently.
Not well supported
Workforce management
Fully accurate source of truth of the current state of your headcount and related expenses
Not supported
Disclaimer: The comparison information on this page is based on publicly available information reviewed as of November 1, 2022. Please contact marketing@vareto.com for any suggested corrections.
Gather inputs from and collaborate with business stakeholders directly in Vareto, with the benefit of granular permissions to control who sees what.
Share BvA reports that automatically update with your organization’s operational data, so you can focus your time on driving business results.
GL account structure changed? Leadership team asked for a different graph? No problem — set up reports with custom metrics, charts, and tables in minutes.
Book a demo to see how Vareto can help you make better, faster operational decisions.
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