The ability to forecast everything collaboratively is now available to small businesses. We have eight employees, and we can now produce forecasts with uncertainty bands and scenarios just like big companies have been able to. We then distribute these dashboards to investors and look highly competent and professional. This makes it worth the cost.
I cannot emphasize enough the power of this tool. It is game-changing. It allows Sales to collaborate with management to produce sales forecasts transparently and rationally.
It is also beautifully done. Dashboard users can toggle charts between Yearly, Quarterly, and Monthly.
Other products out there might be better, but they certainly cost more. I did not try the more expensive tools because Causal does the job well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I have had long conversations with Causal about the product's shortcomings, and they are responsive and want customers to be happy. The biggest weakness is that there is no concept of release pipelines for models. Any changes you make, even developing a new idea on the weekend, are immediately viewable to all stakeholders. If you break the model, it is broken for your largest investor. This is not cool. You can clone the model and do development in the cloned model, but there is no merge facility. Causal recognizes this as a significant gap. But again, for $2,500 per year, I'll put up with that for a few months until they fix it.
Another philosophical criticism is how Causal limits the number of users, premium integrations, and scenario variables for small business users. Causal's defense is that premium connectors are not yet plug-and-play and require implementation costs on their side. Causal has said their goal is to offer more connectors and functionality to small-business users, who must comprise the bulk of their business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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