Plan with precision

Modern FP&A software is designed specifically for financial decision-making, or more specifically, the planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes companies use to support key strategic and financial decisions that will impact their future financial health.
To accomplish all of these things in one platform, the financial planning software must be able to aggregate data from multiple source systems. It must also provide a way for the different areas of the business to maintain those source systems to collaborate with each other.

FP&A tools also contain the “logic” of the business – an ability to connect the myriad interrelated and complex metrics that FP&A processes require.

There is a wide variety of financial management software and tools on the market today that offer one/more of the core capabilities you need for faster and more effective FP&A.

Ideally, your choice of an FP&A solution will be a single, fully comprehensive platform that supports all your core FP&A functions while providing additional capabilities and features that speed time to value, such as built-in modeling templates and a short learning curve.

Drivetrain offers all of this and more, including 800+ integrations to automate data consolidation from all your source systems, robust yet flexible multi-dimensional modeling, collaborative and connected financial planning and financial forecasting, budgeting and variance analysis, metrics and KPI tracking, financial reporting and real-time financial statement analysis – combined with a familiar, Excel-like user interface, that makes it easy to get up and running fast.

Absolutely! However, many businesses start looking for a purpose-built FP&A solution when it starts to become obvious that spreadsheets cannot manage the complexity in their businesses as they begin to scale.

Drivetrain offers the best of both worlds for growing businesses looking for a better solution. With robust FP&A capabilities – multi-dimensional modeling, financial planning including financial forecasting and budgeting, scenario analysis, metrics and KPI tracking, financial analysis and reporting, and more – combined with a familiar, Excel-like user interface, Drivetrain makes it easy for new users to get up and running fast.

While you can still use spreadsheets with Drivetrain, downloading data from various types of financial management software tools and uploading it into the platform, you don’t need to.

With 800+ integrations, Drivetrain eliminates the need to manually move data in this way by connecting to all the systems containing the data you need for FP&A. By integrating directly with Drivetrain, your data will automatically flow into the platform in real time providing a single, central data source to work from that’s always accurate and up to date.