--- title: Catalyst Reviews meta\_title: 'Catalyst Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 20 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Catalyst works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 20 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Accounting & Finance url: https://www.g2.com/categories/accounting-finance --- # Catalyst Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Catalyst but has limited features. Are you part of the Catalyst team? [Upgrade your plan](https://my.g2.com/ebm-software-catalyst/upgrade?utm_campaign=s3&utm_medium=claim-popup&utm_source=g2) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Unlock your data and unleash your performance. Catalyst is powerful, cloud-based business performance software that is designed to accelerate your profitability. Reporting, Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting have never been this simple. Catalyst allows you to easily slice, dice, drill down and pivot enormous amounts of granular data instantaneously to get a complete picture of your business, find anomalies, draw fully-baked insights and make fact-based decisions that positively impact your business. Analyze and create reporting for any data source, from your financials to big data. Don’t just find anomalies, understand them. Catalyst brings all of your data into one clear view: a simple, app-like interface that serves as a single source of truth and democratizes data for your organization. With Catalyst, you finally get a complete view of your business and clarity for the path forward. * * * Seller [EBM Software](https://www.g2.com/sellers/ebm-software) Discussions [Catalyst Community](https://www.g2.com/products/ebm-software-catalyst/discuss) Overview by Marcelo Camara Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 4 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/ebm-software-catalyst/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Vena](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vena") Vena 4.5/5(480) ](https://www.g2.com/products/vena/reviews) [ ![Planful](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Planful") Planful 4.3/5(508) ](https://www.g2.com/products/planful/reviews) [ ![Anaplan](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Anaplan") Anaplan 4.6/5(462) ](https://www.g2.com/products/anaplan/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/ebm-software-catalyst/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 20 real user reviews. Implementation Time 4 months [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Consumer Goods](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consumer Goods") UC Verified User in Consumer Goods Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/26/2021 "Great for various P&L scenarios" 4/5 What do you like best about Catalyst? Love that we can easily upload and run different P&L scenarios. Easy to allocate costs and run analyses. The pivot options are great for looking at different product segments/SKUs. Training from Catalyst rep was very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Catalyst? Quicker refresh of cubes when uploading scenarios/allocating costs. Sometimes the lag messes up our allocation process and uploads incorrect amounts if my colluegues and I are both working in the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Catalyst solving and how is that benefiting you? Quick analyses and pivots between various P&L scenarios and products. Quick and customizable upload processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Industrial Automation](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Industrial Automation") AI Verified User in Industrial Automation Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/26/2021 "Overall it is easy to work with" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Catalyst? That it is in pivot format and the team is easy to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Catalyst? Good but a bit clunky with the continual logins and getting kicked out of excel all together. Hierarchies can be a bit difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Catalyst solving and how is that benefiting you? Financial reporting for PE company. Good overall for that and am getting the profitability cube working to make it an even better experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Food Production](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Food Production") AF Verified User in Food Production Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/28/2021 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Catalyst is neat but very quirky" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Catalyst? I like the fact that you can pull data from multiple systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Catalyst? Most people seem to be afraid of it because it requires a lot of time and knowledge to work and build valuable reports in Catalyst Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Catalyst solving and how is that benefiting you? The consolidation of data - I like Catalyst it's just a bit quirky at times Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Will Flor of Catalyst [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/catalyst-review-5083897/official_response/edit) Thank you so much for your feedback! The last thing we want is for anyone to be tentative to use the product or create reports and analysis, so we'd love to get you over that hump. If you send a note to support@ebmsoftware.com and reference your review, someone on our Customer Success team will reach out to set up some time with you and anyone on your team. Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Consumer Goods](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consumer Goods") AC Verified User in Consumer Goods Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/9/2021 "Good for Data summary & consolidation" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Catalyst? Visualizations of data in a dashboard format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Catalyst? Certain data points in the EBM export are not intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Catalyst solving and how is that benefiting you? Summarization of Data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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