Limelight

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Cloud FP&A software for growth driven finance

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Kyle
Kyle
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best reporting solution for your budget!

Reviewed on 25/4/2019

Limelight has been a tremendous partner that we are extremely grateful for. They listen, execute...

Limelight has been a tremendous partner that we are extremely grateful for. They listen, execute and advise on best practices to fulfill our reporting needs and goals.

Pros

I like how easy it is to use, create, administer and maintain all functions around the reporting. We find it a breath of fresh air with a dramatic leap forward from previous solutions and competitors. The people and service was truly the key as they tailored it to our liking. They are truly a partner that listened and executed well to fulfill our vision.

Cons

There are only minor enhancements that we would like for the software however, the limelight team listened well and already have those improvements in the roadmap in the very near future.

Arlene
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  • Industry: Biotechnology
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Medicinal Genomics Limelight Review

Reviewed on 26/6/2024

From implementation to full usage the experience with Limelight has been nothing short of Stellar! ...

From implementation to full usage the experience with Limelight has been nothing short of Stellar! The Customer Service is far superior to any other company I have worked with in the past.

Pros

Customer Service and Ease of Use. The Implementation & Report Writing Team was nothing short of Stellar

Cons

There was really nothing that I didn't like about Limelight

RODERICK
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  • Industry: Entertainment
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Good but Expensive

Reviewed on 16/9/2024

There is a lot of potential but it doesn't work for smaller businesses due to the a la carte...

There is a lot of potential but it doesn't work for smaller businesses due to the a la carte charges.

Pros

Creates a decent dashboard that captures all elements of a budget

Cons

Cost is too significant when you want a customized report.

James
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Limelight review

Reviewed on 19/7/2023

It's still relatively early, but so far so good.

It's still relatively early, but so far so good.

Pros

Once set up API connectivity brings in balance data monthly with a lot of ease.Customer support has been great.There is a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it there is a good deal of flexibility with report building to represent many different kinds of calculations

Cons

Excel upload is not standard. Each upload type would have to be built by them (at extra cost) rather than being able to just use a relatively standard template.Not their fault, but the API call for transactional data has no flexibility. All transactions have to be loaded which is a drag on API call time and size.In order to see the transactional line items you have to be at the lowest level of dimension. It would be nice if you could have a roll-up but still be able to see the transactional detail rather than needing to expand down however many levels.Building reports has an Excel feel, but not the flexibility. You have to actually type a cell reference rather than being able to use mouse or cursor to select a cell

Alex
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Limelight 3 Year Review

Reviewed on 12/4/2023

We had a great sales team, great technicians, and great sales customer service. Our only issue has...

We had a great sales team, great technicians, and great sales customer service. Our only issue has been the technicians over engineering important pieces of our environment that has made it hard for me, the internal administrator, to navigate without help; but the limelight customer success team has been great and straightening this out for me.

Pros

Our most impactful feature is our forecasting process, and it has become the basis of all major decisions

Cons

Our biggest issue has been over engineering. During the set up phase we had great technicians but they didnt quite seem to grasp the whole picture. Anytime i am trying to change my global variables or scenarios i have run into issues because of over engineering. We are working to get it fixed, and the customer service is great.

Alternatives Considered

Giraffe and Salesforce Sales Cloud

Reasons for Switching to Limelight

Overall consistency with our past manual process and our ability to deeply customize the process flow. We also didn't need all the bells and whistles that were presented to us in our other meetings even though we told them we didnt need those features.
Jeremy
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Great customer and technical support

Reviewed on 9/6/2023

My overall experience has been positive. The team at Limelight responds to our inquires timely and...

My overall experience has been positive. The team at Limelight responds to our inquires timely and are very helpful.

Pros

What stands outs are the custom solutions offered by the technical staff and the ability to re-engineer processes to achieve better results.

Cons

The parts of the software that are excel like should continue to add more excel features. This will help users who are transitioning from excel learn the software faster.

Sami
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  • Industry: Media Production
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Excellent and Flexible Tool

Reviewed on 12/1/2023

While our implementation had been a bit rocky, I have been very pleased with Limelight since they....

While our implementation had been a bit rocky, I have been very pleased with Limelight since they. They continue to add features to the product and make it more valuable. Their customer service has been very responsive any time I do have an issue. Our [SENSITIVE CONTENT] also loves being able to see the reporting by just logging in.

Pros

The automatic import of data from our accounting system is invaluable for reducing work and human error. The flexibility of this software for building reports has helped us automate much of the manual reporting we were doing.

Cons

For more complex reports, the load time can be slow, especially if you have a lot of people in the system.

Alternatives Considered

Centage, Martus and Vena

Reasons for Switching to Limelight

I liked that the reporting was built similar to Excel, which helps a wide variety of people understand it and helps make the reports easier to build. You're able to restrict users to seeing only certain departments. Workforce planning was robust.
Jason
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

A big upgrade

Reviewed on 25/5/2021

As our single largest expense item, workforce planning is critical. Limelight has helped us gain...

As our single largest expense item, workforce planning is critical. Limelight has helped us gain more accurate projection capabilities into our workforce, utilizing employee-specific data, linked with actual payroll data (from ADP) and the ability to see historical paid hours and project specific hours by employee into the future. Often our prior projections involved carrying forward current month actuals, maybe including new hires we knew about, but often inaccurate. Now we have projection employee counts, accurate paid time (even during holidays and breaks) for nearly 2,000 employees

Pros

The workforce planning tool has been the biggest improvement to our processes, providing insights and projection accuracy that we didn't have previously. We're able to get both employee counts and paid time historically as well as projected values through our projection period.

Cons

While the workforce planning module has been the most useful tool to us, it's also been the most challenging to set up and run. This was a new process for us, and we have 35+ end-users in limelight. Most of our challenges have been creating an environment with intentionally limited input options so users don't "break" the calcs. Limelight's support team has been very responsive, even after go-live implementation, in helping solve our data input and template challenges.

One other item that has been a blessing and a challenge is the report books function. While this has been improving even in the first 6 months since implementation, the process for setting up a report book, identifying errors when the book fails, and outputs to excel are still a little challenging, and not as user friendly as much as the rest of the system. This is an area where I can see opportunities for big future improvements.

Brittany
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  • Industry: Events Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Excellent customer service but difficulties in modeling a complex workforce

Reviewed on 2/7/2024

I appreciated Limelight's ability to apply logic to benefits, merit increases and bonuses. I found...

I appreciated Limelight's ability to apply logic to benefits, merit increases and bonuses. I found the customer service team to be extremely helpful and responsive. We struggled to model a complex workforce with numerous seasonal positions working in both the beginning and end of the fiscal year. Exports of reports & templates to excel required manipulation to obtain the necessary information.

Pros

Responsiveness of customer service and data analytics / coding team

Cons

Difficulty in modeling a non-traditional workforce

Alicia
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Great budgeting software

Reviewed on 28/3/2024

Pros

It is so customizable and the implementation team has done a great job in translating our numerous Excel files to a workable and easy method of budgeting templates and input pages. Our employees love that it still looks like Excel, so the transition was smooth.

Cons

It takes a lot of dedication and time to test and fully implement, although I think that would be true for any budgeting software since each company is unique. There are some sorting features that I'd like Limelight to have the capability of doing with the click of a button versus manually (sorting by employee name, account number etc), but they told me they've let their development team know so hopefully it will be a feature in the near future.

Eric
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  • Industry: Airlines/Aviation
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

FlightAware

Reviewed on 16/1/2023

Unfortunately our business needs changed during implementation due to acquisition but we were able...

Unfortunately our business needs changed during implementation due to acquisition but we were able to adjust during implementation to suit our new FP&A needs from our parent company.

Pros

The data import from our ERP and timely and accurate, and the reports generated for financial statements and internal reporting are critical to our monthly financial review.

Cons

Report building is a little complicated, but the trade-off is the support staff is very responsive in helping you trouble shoot your report building problems.

Brian
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Limelight

Reviewed on 23/2/2023

Pros

The ease of use, reliability, and customer support.

Cons

Limits on customization for dashboards when compared to platforms like Power BI

Alyssa
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  • Industry: Events Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Simple Solution

Reviewed on 11/1/2023

Limelight has automated much of our budgeting process and makes it easy to create management and...

Limelight has automated much of our budgeting process and makes it easy to create management and board reports off this information.

Pros

The software is simple to use and resembles Excel in many ways which made it an easy switch for our users.

Cons

The end user does not have much control/ability to customize reports (i.e. they cannot sort based on any column; that is hard coded in the back of the report).

Morgan
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  • Industry: Wholesale
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Budget Review

Reviewed on 21/2/2023

Pros

The initial conversion process was seamless.

Cons

The vast amount of software capabilities are high level and is a lot to retain.

Julie
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Limelight review

Reviewed on 22/1/2019

I have to say that I was expecting the set up to be a little bit easier. I understand that every...

I have to say that I was expecting the set up to be a little bit easier. I understand that every company has different needs so the design is done from scratch but I thought a budget is a budget same for all companies. Not being a computer geek, I have learned that all the relations between downloaded data, the input templates and the reports have a complex inter-relations that any little thing can set off wrong. Limelight staff were very quick to understand our environment and with every testing phase corrected any issues that came along. The development stage was very hands on and the limelight staff was always there to make any changes required when expected results were not coming through. They never give up until they figure out how to get what we want and have all the necessary knowledge within their organization be it accounting or programming and technical interface with various plateforms. They never hesitated in bringing help from other members of their team even if they were not specifically assigned to our project.

Pros

Being in the service industry, our most important expense is wages and it happens to be the most complex expense in our organization combining multiple collective agreements, progression rates, multiple benefits, and also incudes multiple funds , regions and departments. Limelight designed a combined integration of input from our accounting data base and manual overrides with recalculations that gives us the most accurate budget all the way down to the individual employee. What would normally take dozens of excel spreadsheets in all done through a few templates and flow trough to our financial statements under budget column

Cons

Limelight was able to provide us with all the necessary features so there is really nothing that I do not like in the software. It does take a bit of getting used to to navigate the steps but Limelight provided training and went so far as provide us with our own personal how to instructions .

Benny
Benny
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organisation Management
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

We gained faster reporting and analysis

Reviewed on 15/1/2019

Limelight is adding tremendous value to our organization. Users find it easier to adopt the system...

Limelight is adding tremendous value to our organization. Users find it easier to adopt the system and we now have a centralized place for budgets, expenses, and reports. Information is so much more readily available to our senior management.

Pros

It has a better user interface than the native TM1 software.

Cons

We were hoping to have Single Sign On right out of the gate but owing to our specific environment in our company, it did not go smoothly during implementation and we needed to push it to the next phase.

Kendra
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  • Industry: Medical Practice
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Exceptional

Reviewed on 16/7/2021

Pros

It’s reliable, accurate, and fast. If there are any issues, it’s easily fixed.

Cons

I like it all. It all works exactly like it should.

Megan
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  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Still at the starting line but excited for where this platform will take my team

Reviewed on 2/5/2019

If every sales team and integration team were like Limelight, the business world would be a better...

If every sales team and integration team were like Limelight, the business world would be a better place. All too often in my career, the sales teams justified the reputation of the "Sales" guy, constantly over promising while the platform underdelivered. The disconnect between the sales team and the implementation team was, more often than not, a gap that could rarely be filled. From my first conversation with the reps to the continued working relationship I carry with the customer reps, I have every ounce of confidence that Limelight as a platform, and as a partner, was the right choice for our team!

Pros

Right from the start, the platform was visually familiar and seemingly uncomplicated. Its ability to communicate with our accounting software, virtually seamlessly, promised to increase our ROI on the time committed to completing variance reports and conducting variance analysis.

Throughout the demos I couldn't help but think "this is too good to be true, nothing is this easy". I was convinced of its benefits from the end user perspective but was concerned about the potential complication of the back end or maintenance of the software. Much to my surprise, Limelight was true to their word, the back end and maintenance has been just as smooth as promised.

Cons

Given that I am still in the construction stage, I am not in the position to comment on this aspect as of yet. So far, I am extremely pleased with the entire process, as well as the amazing team that introduced us to Limelight along with their colleagues who have worked with us to build the platform to suit.

Jonathan
Jonathan
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  • Industry: Music
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Awesome CDN service!

Reviewed on 8/9/2019

We've been using Limelight for quite a while now as our main CDN system. The experience has been...

We've been using Limelight for quite a while now as our main CDN system. The experience has been great so far !

Pros

Customer service is really good. The CDN functionality is awesome and helped speed up our website considerably.

Cons

I don't think there is anything we disliked about Limelight, even the pricing is reasonable, so nothing to complain about !

Luke
Luke
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  • Industry: Music
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Limelight Financial Software

Reviewed on 21/1/2019

Our company struggled to pull financial information and our monthly reporting package was over 120...

Our company struggled to pull financial information and our monthly reporting package was over 120 tabs in Excel just to make it work. Limelight solved all of those problems and we no longer have to prepare Excel financials, saving us time and money. It also has enabled us to perform analysis immediately and drill-down into the details. We couldn't be happier with the results of Limelight.

Pros

The best part of Limelight is the ease of use. It's very user friendly and easy to pick up. It does not require hundreds of hours of training like other software does. It does exactly what our company needs and the entire Finance department was able grasp the functionality within minutes.

Cons

We have no cons, it works exactly like we had hoped.

Brian
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  • Industry: Accounting
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Exceptional product

Reviewed on 10/6/2019

It's allowed us to supply the Business unit leaders with the proper financial reporting and give...

It's allowed us to supply the Business unit leaders with the proper financial reporting and give them insight to each and every account down to the penny. It's opened up a number of possibilities in regards to budgeting better and forecasting on the fly. Limelight has allowed us to hold better control of our expenditures. Love this product!

Pros

I love the ease of use and the availability of reports it's capable of producing. It's helped with our closes and FP&A reporting tremendously!

Cons

There isn't much if anything that I haven't liked with this software. It's super easy to use and allows instant reporting for financial presentations.

Frank
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  • Industry: Music
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Limelight Review

Reviewed on 6/6/2019

Pros

This software has enabled our company to have instant P&L reporting , whereas in the past we had to make manual reports every time to needed to run financial data.

Cons

The only thing i don't like is that I cannot drill down to GL activity.

Bruce
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  • Industry: Commercial Real Estate
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Currently in implementation....

Reviewed on 7/6/2019

Experience to-date has been very good from the start of the engagement, through the sales process...

Experience to-date has been very good from the start of the engagement, through the sales process and contact signing. The Lime light sales team was very easy to work with and were not your typically "sign-a-deal today" type of crew which was refreshing. We have not yet pushed Limelight into a production environment, but are confident that the cloud-based planning and reporting solution will greatly improve efficiencies and controls with our annual planning and quarterly forecasting process.

Pros

The implementation process has been proceeding on schedule and our implementation consultant truly understands the FP&A function which has added great value to the process. While we're not yet complete with the implementation, the process has been very flexible allowing complete customization to our company specific requirements, including reporting We are looking forward to our user acceptance testing and go-live.

Cons

At this point in our process, I have not identified any cons and the application is on a path to function as advertised and provide the value and efficiencies we were seeking as we move away from an Excel based planning tool.

Noel
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Limelight 3 mths in

Reviewed on 2/5/2019

The support I am getting from the limelight team is the best I have ever experienced with a...

The support I am getting from the limelight team is the best I have ever experienced with a software company. I reach out to them, and they are immediately trying to help me out. Great group of people.

Pros

The software offers a lot of flexibility. I can present data in report format which is much more useful than the typical dashboard presentation views in other tools. The ability to use limelight for both data collection applications as well as distribution is great. The natural connectivity to Essbase means I don't have to invest much time in changing my existing reporting platforms to leverage limelight. I have had the tool now for 3 months and have successfully written over 30 reports that will serve 100+ users easily. My management team is excited about what we will be able to do with limelight to minimize data management overhead within the finance organization.

Cons

Graphing needs to be enhanced. Some small tweaks to report development would go along way. Looking forward to seeing version 3.

Ron
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Pretty good product for what we use it for.

Reviewed on 6/6/2019

Limelight is good for basic applications. As the company matures, the software is becoming more...

Limelight is good for basic applications. As the company matures, the software is becoming more versatile.

Pros

Simple software. It works well for simple applications.

Cons

Lacking some functions since it's a relatively new product, but the engineers are constantly working to improve.