CALUMO Reviews & Product Details

Calumo is cloud-based financial performance and analysis (FP&A) software that helps businesses streamline their budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis processes. With Calumo, business users can access real-time data from various sources, create interactive dashboards and visualizations, and collaborate with team members through a web browser or Microsoft Office applications. With features such as scenario planning, data modeling, data integration, workflow management, and security and compliance, Calumo helps businesses improve their decision-making, reduce costs, and increase efficiency. Customers appreciate Calumo’s ease of use, flexibility, and integration with Excel.

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Calumo

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Languages Supported

English

Overview by

Warwick Leitch (COO at CALUMO)

Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

2 months

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

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What is CALUMO, and what problem is it built to solve?

CALUMO is business intelligence and corporate performance management software built to help organizations improve reporting, budgeting, and forecasting. It uses Microsoft technologies, including Excel integration, to bring financial and operational data into reports and dashboards for analysis and planning.

What languages does CALUMO support?

CALUMO supports 1 language: English.

What company sizes and industries is CALUMO the best fit for?

CALUMO’s reviewer-reported fit is concentrated in mid-market and enterprise organizations, with higher education and hospitality among the most represented industries. Other represented industries include restaurants and financial services.

Company size: Mid-market and enterprise organizations.
Industries: Higher education and hospitality, with restaurants and financial services also represented.

What customer support options does CALUMO provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

Support experiences include responsive, knowledgeable help from customer service and consultants, though the level of attention and consultant availability can vary. This may be worth factoring into plans that depend on ongoing external support.

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Alister C.

MIS Manager

Higher Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/27/2017

"The Power of One"

5/5

What do you like best about CALUMO?

Sits on the MS BI stack, Excel integration, Slice and Dice Web Browser, MDX from Excel, Published reports from excel, Writeback from excel or web, Drill thru to Transaction (excel or web), Can publish excel graphs, In-cell charts, technical support is great, consultants great. The product is so functionally rich... eg the four different slices to excel you can do each with their own strengths. Really well thought out and intuitive product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CALUMO?

the name... What does it mean??? Hires publishing to PDF... not high res enough for people that like a page full of numbers (and I mean A3 page FULL OF NUMBERS) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cathi J.

Manager, Systems Accounting

Non-Profit Organization Management

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/5/2017

"Key long-term business partner"

5/5

What do you like best about CALUMO?

Great product, and expert consultants who are knowledgeable, flexible and super-responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CALUMO?

Not having enough time to better use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CALUMO:

Flexible product, easy to install, and is able to bring together data from a variety of sources to enable better business decision-making. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CALUMO solving and how is that benefiting you?

CALUMO is our key financial reporting tool, used for monthly and annual financial reporting, ad-hoc financial reporting, and annual and long-term financial planning and modelling. We have a detailed financial model for our annual operating budgets and the preparation process is significantly streamlined with CALUMO, and it is easy to slice and dice the reports as required by management and our board. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Grant H.

Senior Accounting Manager

Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/6/2017

"Very positive experience"

4/5

What do you like best about CALUMO?

CALUMO is a very powerful tool that is enabling us to provide timely information to our various stakeholders. The visualisation provided by dashboards is very impressive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CALUMO?

You need to have a fairly comprehensive understanding of how the system works in the background to get the most out of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CALUMO:

You need to clearly understand what it is you are wanting to get out of a BI Tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CALUMO solving and how is that benefiting you?

More timely information which is better presented and allowing us to customise information for cost centre managers through the sue of dashboards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sue G.

Finance BI Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/5/2017

"Calumo will change how you work"

5/5

What do you like best about CALUMO?

Easy to use

Intuitive

Visual

Drill through Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CALUMO?

Nothing - it's a great product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CALUMO:

Think beyond what you're doing now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CALUMO solving and how is that benefiting you?

Budgeting and forecasting; regular reporting

Used for reporting finance, research, HR, student, CRM and energy

UNSW have been using calumo for nearly 10 years. Over that time the product has matured and our use of has changed. Our user base is almost 5,000. User have information at their fingertips. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/5/2017

"Director Budget & Management Reporting"

4/5

What do you like best about CALUMO?

I like the ease of use of the product. The ability to use multiple dimensions ie slicing data in various ways. The product is agile and seems to cope with changing demands readily. On site support from Calumo consultants have also been extremely beneficial Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CALUMO?

We don't currently use the commentary input which would be of great use for us. Budgeting and forecasting capabilities are also not maximized. Can have issues with aspects depending on the type of browser utilized can be frustrating as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Restaurants

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/27/2017

"Changed How we look at our business"

4.5/5

What do you like best about CALUMO?

Getting our financials with more information such as % of sales and drillability to GLs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CALUMO?

It takes a lot of time/money to get data in and going. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CALUMO:

It's been great to get what we need for our executive team. We are still adding data/features to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CALUMO solving and how is that benefiting you?

Getting data to executives' hands faster, better, and more accurate. Gives us different slices that we ask for such as department/country. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/10/2017

"Calumo is a great Finance tool with excellent vendor support"

5/5

What do you like best about CALUMO?

The vendor is continually improving the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CALUMO?

More visibility of inbuilt budgeting and forecasting capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CALUMO:

Utilise the web version rather than the excel addin as much as possible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CALUMO solving and how is that benefiting you?

Annual budget creation and monitoring improving financial management. Daily reporting of funds spent and remaining for project reporting allowing quicker more efficient decisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Darren K.

Business Improvement Manager

Maritime

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/6/2017

"Been an enjoyable collaborative learning and development experience"

4/5

What do you like best about CALUMO?

The flexibility and customisation of the program and the ability to automate tasks so that more time is spent on analysing rather than preparing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CALUMO?

Our ERP system whose SQL integration solution was very flaky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/5/2017

"calumoexp review"

3.5/5

What do you like best about CALUMO?

user friendly and flexible view of the data

faster data view

easy to connect and easy to learn

dynamic and secure reporting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CALUMO?

slicing and dicing can be improved

some of the functionalities are not easy to learn for the beginners Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/5/2017

"Good BI tool for Finance"

4/5

What do you like best about CALUMO?

Integration with MS-Excel, Dynamically expanding reports, ability to write-back and ease of use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CALUMO?

Lack of visualisation tools and statistical capability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CALUMO:

If your focus is mainly Financial information and reporting e.g. Budgeting, forecasting, GL reporting etc, Calumo is a very good tool. It doesn't have sophisticated visualisation tools like Tableau but it does financial information management really well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CALUMO solving and how is that benefiting you?

Developed suit of dynamic self-help fund statements and financial reports. Main benefit is better customer satisfaction and time savings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.