Outgrowing Excel: For Some It's Half-Baked

22.04.2011

No. They know they have their hands full with other infrastructure. They never had ownership over a budgeting tool so it wasn't like we were taking something away.

We do take data out of Host Analytics and put it into the SAP ledger/ERP system and vice versa so folks can look at actual vs. plan. This lets users do reporting and analysis where they are most comfortable. We decided not to go with SAP's planning tool because we didn't want to sign up for another major implementation. Sure you get the integration, but there were also obvious downsides for us [as compared to the SaaS approach] such as the high complexity and the fact that it's time consuming.

That is something we talked about. There are trade-offs outside of the lower cost of implementation. And it's something we'll continue to monitor.