Why choose Drivetrain vs. Datarails?
Finance teams pick Drivetrain for its flexibility, simplicity, and scalability. Build dynamic reports faster, unlock real AI capabilities, and connect all your systems — without any manual work or a painful setup.
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Drivetrain vs. Datarails
Reporting, Planning, And Insights Made Effortless
Say goodbye to clunky Excel workflows and switch to Drivetrain for cloud-based reporting, smarter AI-driven planning with integrations for all your business data systems.
“Drivetrain has very flexible forecasting models that allowed us to build our entire forecast – top-line, expenses, balance sheet and cash flow – to get them all interconnected with each other and our other systems.”
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“I have used several FP&A platforms and Drivetrain is the best I've used because we can model at a very granular level (vendor, department, etc.) without much effort and create digestible reporting outputs. This is the first platform I've used where I've felt comfortable getting rid of the "backup" excel model.”
“Drivetrain has simplified our life by eliminating many manual steps involved with maintaining an excel forecast. Importing actuals, saving snapshots and scenarios, and creating new metrics and calculations is MUCH easier than in excel.”
Surface insights fast
Drivetrain’s easy-to-use reporting features makes it easy to create board-ready reports with beautiful visualizations in minutes. Formulas automatically roll up new accounts and dimensions without any effort.
Datarails users don't enjoy this benefit. With every new account or dimension, they have to manually adjust their formulas, which creates more work and increases the risk of error. Users also say the report builder formats are basic at best, limiting how they can present their data. Building a report from scratch is difficult, too, with a data mapper that's too technical & hard to comprehend.
Simpler, Smarter, and Faster to Use
Drivetrain is an intuitive cloud-based platform anyone can pick up quickly — even non-finance users. Native AI capabilities help you model, transform, and analyze data without technical expertise or headaches.
Datarails is an Excel-based tool that's resource-heavy, comes with a complex setup, and is difficult to scale. Users have to learn Datarails' custom syntax for even the simplest operations. The platform’s AI capabilities are also limited to a basic chatbox, doing little to address its inherent usability issues.
Say goodbye to integration and data issues
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Drivetrain’s 800+ pre-built connectors along with an expert in-house implementation team ensures that all your data is available on the platform within a few days of onboarding.
Datarails offers far fewer integrations (~200). It doesn’t provide a native integration with Google Sheets, and users have described the implementation process as "painful" with clunky connections with tools like QuickBooks, Tableau, Xero in serious need of improvement.
Don’t just take our word for it
Here’s how users of both tools rate Drivetrain and Datarails on G2.
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