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What is Prophix?

Prophix One, a Financial Performance Platform, is used to improve the speed and accuracy of decision-making within a harmonized user experience. To reduce complexity and uncertainty, the software offers automated insights and planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and consolidation functionalities.

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Prophix One Portal: One single point of entry into Prophix One through its portal simplifies access and authentication but also allows seamless movement between applications.
Chart Insights, one of the AI Insights capabilities that utilizes Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing to provide enhanced business awareness.  Chart Insights extends the important details contained within dashboards, and analyzes the complete dataset behind the dashboard, automatically surfacing the data relationships not obvious in dashboard visualizations alone. It then provides a summary of key performance metrics found buried within Prophix charts.  It also summarizes the important insights in plain English.
Prophix One Financial Planning & Analysis: Prophix's self-serve dashboards and visualizations are directly integrated with data, workflow tasks, announcements, and external URLs and databases. Dashboard Studio helps users to be informed and make better business decisions.
Detailed interactive charts and graphs that Prophix offers to uncover insights. Prophix’s visual analytics are linked directly to data with transaction details.  There is no need to input the numbers.  Prophix does this tedious work, automatically.
Prophix’s Workflow Manager, used to assign tasks to users and facilitate approvals across the business.  Stakeholder input can be captured directly with the ability to add comments and notes in a single unified database.
Cell Comments, that allow users to add supporting details like notes and attachments to data.  Since comments are stored with the data, they can be viewed in any template along with their trailing history. Cell Comment Reports can also be generated to show all comments from any data view in one convenient report.
Prophix One Account Reconciliation: Software that streamlines financial close, empowering the Office of the CFO to make data-informed decisions. The centralized platform ensures an efficient process for reconciling dispersed data.
Prophix One Financial Consolidation: Developed to meet the unique requirements for a streamlined month-end close process. Leveraging best practices, it removes the complexity of consolidation by automating processes like multi-currency translations and sub–consolidation, ensuring multi-GAAP and IFRS compliance to reduce the need for expensive customizations. Regardless of group structure, depth, or unique chart of accounts, Prophix can execute complex account consolidations.
Prophix One Intercompany Management: Eliminates manual data collection hassles and errors involving multi-entities and multi-currencies by integrating disparate data sources into Prophix One and automatically structuring the data to elevate financial accuracy. By automating data imports and using intelligent data mapping with built-in validation rules, Prophix One ensures a smooth and reliable data collection process.
ESG Reporting: For addressing NFRD regulations, GRI standards or preparing for CSRD requirements, Prophix One reporting centralizes data from diverse environmental, social, and governance business systems.

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Top Performing Features

  • Financial budgeting

    Annual budget for revenue and operating expenses, headcount/compensation, capital expenses, projects, etc.

    Category average: 8.9

  • Financial Statement Reporting

    Creation and production of balance sheets, income statements, cash flows, other schedules

    Category average: 8.8

  • Drill-down analysis

    Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • XBRL support for regulatory filing

    Support for the XBRL standard reporting format for exchanging financial data.

    Category average: 7.2

  • Pixel Perfect reports

    Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.

    Category average: 7.4

  • Predictive Analytics

    Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.

    Category average: 7.5

Prophix: The all-in-one financial software

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Prophix to assist in our monthly financial reporting and forecasting as well as our annual budgeting process. Prophix is our go to place for pulling any financial and statistical data for ad hoc requests. The software is very user-friendly and easy to pick up, even for less tech savvy users. Working with customer support to onboard new users and set up new cubes has been a breeze and everyone is very friendly. The cloud-based solution allows me to get my data on the fly - even when I am traveling. The dashboarding feature has been effective for executive landing pages and KPI reporting. Overall, Prophix gives me everything I need all in one place.

Pros

  • Ad hoc report generation and drill downs
  • Executive KPI dashboarding
  • Version control
  • Multiple cubes for specific user needs
  • System wide budgeting
  • Report creation in template studio

Cons

  • Machine learning seasonality for forecasting
  • Allow us to copy existing report layouts into template studio
  • Interfacing with Power BI

Return on Investment

  • Prophix has made it easier to share financial performance to decision makers faster than before
  • Prophix has allowed us to eliminate a lot duplicative reporting saving FTE efforts
  • Prophix is self-servicing allowing us to spend less time pulling data and working on other things

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft 365

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI, Oracle PeopleSoft ERP, Microsoft 365

Prophix is great!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to consolidate financial data coming in from different ERPs , weekly & quarterly forecasting, our annual budgeting process, as well as miscellaneous financial analysis requested, specially now that we have several years of data. We create ad hoc reports as well as as workflows for controllers to enter information for month end close.

Pros

  • Ability to build/customize reports
  • Named sets
  • automated processes to bring in data

Cons

  • Workflow email notifications don't always work well (bugs)
  • Prophix M365 had a lot of issues this year
  • report binders are nice but would like to be able to specify what to print so we don't have multiple copies of the same report

Return on Investment

  • streamlined budget process
  • workflows let people know when they need to turn in their information and that helps us have our financial data in a more timely manner
  • faster month end closes

Usability

Other Software Used

Viewpoint Vista, Deltek Costpoint, Microsoft Power BI

Prophix is an Excellent tool for an Efficient Finance Team.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our primary use of Prophix is for budgeting and forecasting. We recently implemented account reconciliations. This has been very helpful since all account reconciliation backups are in one central location. It makes it much easier for the controller to review and approve reconciliations. We anticipate that our annual audit process will also be smoother and quicker.

Pros

  • Easy for end users to learn the system.
  • Easy to track workflows and who has or has not submitted information.
  • Easy to run reports.

Cons

  • The system can be slow.
  • Designing reports can be challenging.
  • More templates.

Return on Investment

  • Streamlined Budgeting.
  • Faster month-end close with Account Reconciliation.
  • Improved Forecasting.

Other Software Used

SAP Concur, UKG Pro

Prophix review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Prophix is used as budget planning and consolidation tool within our organization. It is aimed to provide smooth budgeting process through different rounds of submission while ensuring robust data accuracy. We have used the tool at our team as a consolidation point and that can run our consolidation model and potentially connect to all of our other site's team Prophix model in the future

Pros

  • able to create automation process that allows uploading data in a fast manner
  • have a large "how to" library that is very helpful for beginners
  • the support team is always on point to provide real time answers

Cons

  • would be great to edit/add dimensions to cubes after they have been published
  • would be nice to have options to edit multiple dimension attributes at once
  • ability to connect to powerBI

Return on Investment

  • streamlined budgeting process
  • quicker update through different rounds of submissions
  • accurate data output

Alternatives Considered

IBM Cognos Analytics

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Teams

Recommend Prophix with CSP

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Prophix for our financial packages, budgeting, forecasting, and ad-hoc needs. We have been a customer for nine years and have been a beta tester for several occasions. Considering our diverse business, it makes us unique and helps Prophix build better products and provides excellent service. Our primary use of Prophix is for budget and forecasting. I would say Prophix is excellent at this. We are able to budget/forecast on the businesses leaf leaves and provide better insight into the numbers. This allows our business owners to make better and faster business decisions.

Pros

  • CSP
  • Budgeting
  • Forecasting

Cons

  • More template capabilities like excel
  • Processing power
  • Change licensing capabilities

Return on Investment

  • Went from budgeting in Excel to 5 P&Ls to implementing Prophix and growing the P&L count to 30+
  • Able to make decisions during Covid to pivot and have positive operating profit compared to our competitors
  • Budget on the lowest GL level for over 200+ P&Ls today

Alternatives Considered

FloQast

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Medius