Limelight Software

Score9 out of 10

1 Reviews and Ratings

What is Limelight Software?

Limelight is a cloud-based FP&A platform designed to increase collaboration, productivity and time spent making intelligent, data-driven business decisions.

The software integrates with ERP systems to centralize and leverage data to provide real-time insights for budgeting, forecasting and reporting.

Budget managers can use Limelight to plan and forecast by designing and managing their own budget sheets with its interface. They collaborate across departments in real-time and create automated financial and comparative reports.

Executives & Management use Limelight to analyze trends in the business and identify growth opportunities and cost savings, and monitor cash flow.

Limelight is an industry-agnostic platform serving a range of clients. It combines Excel functionality with data in a single workspace with automated consolidation for instant analysis.

Integrated Financial Planning & Reporting
Cost and Revenue Planning
Reporting and Analysis in Real-Time
Automated Rolling Forecasts
Automated Cash Flow Monitoring
Integrated Workforce Planning
Sales Commissions Planning
Real-Time Dashboarding

Categories & Use Cases

Media

an example visualization, used to show an audience the story behind the data in an elegant and compelling way.

dashboards that provide a central location for users to access, interact and analyze up-to-date information through interactive reports so they can make data-driven decisions.

Limelight's self-service reporting, which allows users to create their own reports, dashboards and ad-hoc queries, which in turn allows for decision making that is based on key figures and trends.

Limelight Workforce Planning's direct integrations with Payroll and HR systems, giving users up-to-date headcount data and automatically calculating taxes, benefits & bonuses.

1 / 5

Sami Novaster

Sr. Director, Finance in Finance and Accounting at Chicago Public Media (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Limelight for reporting, budgeting, and forecasting. We were previously doing much of this in Excel. Limelight has helped reduce user error in entry and in version control. It's also helped us increase the speed at which we can update forecasts, as the consolidation of templates will happen automatically after a user clicks save.

Pros

Agile reporting
Collaborative forecasting and budgeting
Up to date reporting with GL integration

Cons

Complex template speed
Customer service response - was good initially, but has become worse recently
Formatting options in charts

Return on Investment

Limelight has helped us increase the speed of our forecasting, budgeting, and reporting
Limelight has helped us create models to look at many years in the future.