Vareto vs. Datarails: What's the best solution for you?

With Vareto's intuitive interface, finance teams can effortlessly create custom reports that foster better collaboration with business stakeholders

Create custom, dynamic reports in minutes

With Vareto’s intuitive interface, creating, duplicating, and modifying reports takes only minutes. Filter by any dimension to customize and scale out your reports with ease.

Collaborate better, together in one source of truth

Annotate tables and charts and add comments with @mentions to gather input or highlight key trends. Give department leaders self-serve access to the latest spend and variance details (down to the transaction level), with the benefit of granular access permissions to control who sees what. 

Get launched in weeks, not months

Create custom, dynamic reports in minutes

With Vareto’s intuitive interface, creating, duplicating, and modifying reports takes minutes. Filter by any dimension to customize and scale out your reports. Vareto’s dynamic reports seamlessly integrate directly with your ERP, CRM, HRIS, and other business systems to update automatically with your latest data.

It takes hours to build custom reports from the ground up in Datarails and maintain them on an ongoing basis. Every new report can require manual reconstruction, which makes the process hard to scale. Manually pulling and entering data from different tools, CSV uploads, and data matching is time-consuming work prone to human error and diverts resources from high-impact work.

An illustration showing that users can build any report with custom metrics and visualizations by themselves.
Showing commenting and tagging capabilities of Vareto's FP&A Platform

Collaborate better, together

Effective finance teams don’t work in a vacuum. Vareto’s collaboration features make it easy to work with business stakeholders and drive prompt, informed decision-making that your organization requires. Annotate tables and charts with comments with @mentions to gather input or highlight key trends. Give department leaders self-serve access to the latest spend and variance details (down to the transaction level), with the benefit of granular access permissions to control who sees what. 

Datarails isn’t built for collaboration with the business. Because Datarails is limited to Excel, it’s a challenge to get engagement from non-finance users. There’s no ability to add text to reports to provide context to business users. Business stakeholders get overwhelmed by multiple spreadsheets, version control issues, and data that becomes out of date quickly.

Get value in weeks, not months

Realize time-to-value in as little as two weeks with Vareto’s intuitive platform — no third-party consultants needed. Vareto’s customer success team is composed of former finance professionals who understand the needs and challenges that FP&A teams face. Customers rave about Vareto’s customer success team, noting Vareto’s “hyper-focus on the customer and their needs." Vareto’s customer success team has a 10/10 rating for Quality of Support on G2. 

Implementation in Datarails takes weeks, with a steep learning curve and heavy reliance on customer support to get started. With different tiers of support, it can quickly become time-consuming and expensive to get access to the right data you need to drive business decisions.

The ability to instantly compare actuals to plan or any other period in Vareto's FP&A platform

Flexible and scalable as your business grows

Vareto serves mid-market to enterprise customers and is designed with flexibility and scalability in mind. Building, replicating, and modifying reports is intuitive and easy and fast. Users save 30-40 hours each month with Vareto’s reporting automation, making it possible to do more with less. Vareto serves 50 departments and 100 finance and business users concurrently, ensuring everyone can access the latest information to drive decisions. Choosing Vareto means choosing a platform that grows with your business needs. 

Datarails is primarily designed for SMBs. It’s time-consuming to build and replicate reports, making it challenging for businesses to access information as they grow. Excel-based reporting means the reporting process is prone to human error and breakage. Choosing Datarails means choosing a tool that lacks the flexibility and scalability needed for businesses to thrive.

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“My finance team raves about Vareto. From fast onboarding to sleek design and native integrations, Vareto has built a product we genuinely enjoy using.”

Casey Woo, CFO @ Landing

“Now, everyone is looking at the same dashboard with the same definitions. It’s eliminated the debates and noise that consumed a lot of time. Vareto has built transparency and trust in the reporting.”

Ankur Verma, CFO @ Mindtickle

“Finance has a better view of the terrain. With the integrations, we know that everything is in the system. Whenever there’s a decision that needs to be made, I’m confident I can get the data needed. Before Vareto, it would take days. Now, you just click and it’s there.”

Carson Yeung, Strategic Finance Lead @ Wrapbook