I love that Solver is cloud-based and accessible anywhere, which makes it super easy to use. It's also highly customizable and can connect different systems' data seamlessly. Solver makes running reports simple for users, and after we do the heavy lifting of creating reports, it's very easy to adjust as needed. I also like that it can make the budget as detailed as you can imagine.

We recently used all payroll names and titles for the payroll budget, but calculating payroll budgets for hourly employees is difficult and needed some estimation. We had some difficulty with requests to add more employees and adjust employee data, which had to be done on the data warehouse side.

Solver simplifies running financial reports and is highly customizable. It's cloud-based, accessible anywhere, and seamlessly connects different systems' data. However, estimating payroll budgets for hourly employees is challenging, and adjustments require data warehouse support.

Sophisticated reports and input templates can be created by non-programmers. Our rolling forecast input templates have vastly improved the budgeting process for our franchises (over 100). Support has always been responsive and very helpful. The incremental feature improvements with each release keep adding functionality that is beneficial to us.

We have over 100 entities on Dynamics Business Central on premise, and this makes it impossible for us to use the BC connector. We are able to use the SQL Server connector, and it works well, but it is not real-time integrated, since we have to push data from our BC system to a data warehouse and then import into Solver. The on premise gateway is unstable and cannot be parallelized. Hopefully our update issues will be resolved, once we get our warehouse into Azure SQL.

I find that reports run slower and slower over time, until a Solver update/release, after which it goes faster again. I assume this has to do with rebuilding indexes or something like that.

We are a franchisor, with over 100 franchises. Our rolling forecast templates have made the budgeting process far simpler and more powerful. We also use this for playing out scenarios, such as:

- How long will it take to break even if I hire a new sales executive, factoring in salary, commission, training/ramp up period, and monthly sales projections?

- What will be the impact to my cashflow if I take on a new client of $x per month, costing me $y per month, and billing on net 60 terms?

- What will be the impact on my revenue if I raise monthly prices by x% across my client base? Or on a select group of clients?

For our group of over 100 business owners, ranging in annual revenue from just starting to over $40M, these tools have been game changing, compared with our old Jet Reports limitations of pretty much just seeing balance sheets and cashflow statements.

We love the veratility that Solver gives us when it comes to writing our reports.

Not all programs can interface directly, our payroll system does not so all information has to be manually loaded.

It allows us to quickly get reports in our managers hands through Publisher, and the security allows us to use 1 report for many different types of user.

Solver is a great product to help with financial dashboard, reportings and data warehouse aggregation.

I wish the Rest API and Power BI integrations were a bit more mature to help with our automation and cross department needs.

The platform allows us to aggregate data from multiple business units into a common reporting and dashbaording platform

I love the data warehouse functionality coupled with the ease of use of the Excel interface. I was already proficient in Excel so I didn't need to learn a whole new program to build reports with the data we have in Solver.

The initial setup was rocky for us becuase the Solver pros didn't understand our data and how we use it, and we didn't initially understand the ins-and-outs of how Solver is set up. Now that we understand the program we are making changes to set it up the best way for us but it is more difficult to make those changes after the fact.

Solver allows us to respond to reporting requests much more quickly and take a ton of manual effort off of our team. It allows us to join disparate data sources together to create a full-picture report for decision-makers in far less time and effort than it used to, and with more accuracy.

The easy it is to use and friendly user experience

We should have constant update and new usages of the platform

Easy consolidation and reporting

It created a solution for our financial reporting issues which out of the box Business Central didn't have.

Nothing; it is very well designed. The software add on is very intuitive.

Lack of financial reporting capabilities in out of the box Microsoft Business Central

The reporting features are super easy!!!

Mapping can be a bit difficult to navigate.

Easy budgeting. Solver allows me to set up templates which our team members can then come in and navigate themselves. It allows us to give them onus over their work.

I love the built in excel functionality - no point in re-inventing the wheel. The possibilites in report designer are immense.

It's a steep learning curve, especially if you're not already adept with excel.

We have dozens of departments and the budgeting process was previously manual - time-intensive and with room for human error. Solver has made our budgeting and forecasting processes much smoother.

I like Solver because it's a big time saver and easy to use. The ability to prepare financial reports and do analysis tasks that would normally take two weeks can be done with just a click of a button. I appreciate how Solver makes it easy to create graphs for analysis and how quickly it produces reports. In a busy environment where there's constant pressure to complete tasks on time, Solver is a tremendous benefit. The automation of financial reporting has been extremely helpful.

I think it would be nice to have the graphs that are done to be ready to go. So graphs, tables, and icon or legends can be fixed so that when we run it, it automatically comes as it appears on the software system. That is a major thing that we believe can be improved.

I use Solver to save time in financial analysis and reporting, making it easy to automate tasks. It allows me to quickly generate reports, which would typically take weeks. Solver is a major time saver, especially in a demanding environment.