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Why Choose Datarails over Anaplan?

Datarails simply offers greater value in just about every category. As the only completely native Excel FP&A solution, Datarails ensures a quick implementation time and no changes in your data and how you work. In addition, its AI chatbot, drill down capabilities, dashboards, and AI generated storyboards make for the most efficient and time-saving FP&A solution on the market. 

Capterra rating: 4.7

G2 rating: 4.9

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What you can do with Datarails

Primary Focus

Learning curve

Implementation Time

Technical Expertise Required

Cost

Maintenance

Flexibility

Ease of Doing Business With (G2)

User Satisfaction – Quality of Support (G2)

Financial reporting & planning with Excel integration
Low: Excel-based (familiar to finance teams)
Weeks
Low (familiar to finance teams)
Lower initial investment
Minimal IT support needed
Fully customizable, No unique syntax or coding
9.3/10
9.4/10
Enterprise-wide planning platform
High: Proprietary interface
Months
High (often requires specialized developers)
Higher implementation and ongoing costs
Dedicated resources often required
Customizable but requires dedicated internal teams or relies on IT/consultants for significant changes.
8.5/10
8.1/10
Primary Focus
Financial reporting & planning with Excel integration
Enterprise-wide planning platform
Learning curve
Low: Excel-based (familiar to finance teams)
High: Proprietary interface
Implementation Time
Weeks
Months
Technical Expertise Required
Low (familiar to finance teams)
High (often requires specialized developers)
Cost
Lower initial investment
Higher implementation and ongoing costs
Maintenance
Minimal IT support needed
Dedicated resources often required
Flexibility
Fully customizable, No unique syntax or coding
Customizable but requires dedicated internal teams or relies on IT/consultants for significant changes.
Ease of Doing Business With (G2)
9.3/10
8.5/10
User Satisfaction – Quality of Support (G2)
9.4/10
8.1/10

Datarails Benefits

Stay with your own Excel files

Keep working in Excel and keep your financial models. But now you benefit from a unified database, version control, and dashboarding.

From manual work to automation

No longer spend hours and days manually working with multiple different Excel files or software and tech stacks which don’t talk to each other. Enjoy instant updates in seconds, freeing you up for more valuable and strategic finance work.

Tailored to your OKRs and KPIs

Consolidate your data based on the organization’s exact needs and shifting challenges. Allocations, eliminations, FX, and other financial calculations are included as standard.

Using Datarails, our customers save

Igor Bernadski, CFO

Montreal Mini-Storage

$500K

in productivity costs

50

hours of labor a month

75%

less manual spreadsheet work

What you can do with Datarails

Consolidation

Automate the collection of data from your organization and bring it all to one place

Budgeting

Estimate costs and revenues for the entire business, while bringing order to your budget collection process and saying goodbye to back-and-forth emails

Data visualization

Embrace the notion that not everyone loves a spreadsheet as much as you do, and use graphs and charts to share the story of your data and collaborate with other teams

Forecasting

Plan ahead to make sure your company’s business decisions are founded on informed and up-to-date projectionsn

Scenario modeling

Prepare for multiple possible futures by evaluating how various changes in your financials can be expected to affect business outcomes

Analysis

Dive deeper into your financial or operational data to examine anything from key variance drivers to head count, sales performance, COGS and (virtually) everything in between

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Datarails is a financial planning and analysis platform for Excel users. It automates data consolidation, reporting and planning, while enabling finance teams to continue using their own Excel spreadsheets and financial models.