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Limelight

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Cloud budgeting, reporting & forecasting platform.

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Limelight FAQs

Q. Who are the typical users of Limelight?

Limelight has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business

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Q. What languages does Limelight support?

Limelight supports the following languages:
English

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Q. Does Limelight offer an API?

No, Limelight does not have an API available.

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Q. What other apps does Limelight integrate with?

Limelight integrates with the following applications:
Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate, Dayforce HCM, Sage Intacct, Infor Cloud ERP, Dynamics 365, FinancialForce Accounting, NetSuite, Kinetic, Salesforce Sales Cloud, ADP Globalview Payroll, Domo, Paylocity, Qlik Sense, Tableau, Workato, Acumatica Cloud ERP, IBM Cognos Analytics, Microsoft Power BI, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Clearlogin, Microsoft Excel

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Q. What level of support does Limelight offer?

Limelight offers the following support options:
Phone Support, Email/Help Desk, Chat, Knowledge Base, FAQs/Forum, 24/7 (Live rep)

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Limelight product overview

What is Limelight?

Limelight is a cloud-based FP&A platform designed to increase collaboration, productivity and time spent making intelligent, data-driven business decisions.

Key benefits of using Limelight

  • Integrated Financial Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting & Reporting - combine the best of Excel and the Web into a single workspace with automated consolidation for instant analysis.


  • Cost and Revenue Planning - produce several iterations of cost & revenue planning, apply drivers and immediately see variances.


  • Reporting and Analysis in Real Time - our self-service reporting lets users to make their own reports, dashboards and ad-hoc queries, which allows them to make profitable decisions using important numbers and trends.


  • Automated Rolling Forecasts - re-forecast dynamically on any quantity of actual periods.


  • Cash Flow - monitor your cash position very closely and automate calculations via direct links to the P&L and Balance Sheet.


  • Workforce Planning - integrate directly with your internal Payroll & HR systems and receive the latest headcount data and automatically calculated taxes, benefits & bonuses.


  • Sales Commissions - sales representatives can see their commissions, track key performance metrics and view their rankings at any time.
  • Typical customers

    Freelancers
    Small businesses
    Mid size businesses
    Large enterprises

    Platforms supported

    Web
    Android
    iPhone/iPad

    Support options

    Phone Support
    Email/Help Desk
    Chat
    Knowledge Base
    FAQs/Forum
    24/7 (Live rep)

    Training options

    Webinars
    Videos
    Live Online
    In Person
    Documentation

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    Limelight features

    Functionality

    4.4

    /5

    28

    Total features

    97

    6 categories

    Most valued features by users

    Reporting & Statistics
    Activity Dashboard
    Third Party Integrations
    API
    Reporting/Analytics
    Data Import/Export
    Customizable Reports
    Workflow Management

    Limelight users reviews

    Overall Rating

    4.5

    /5

    28

    Positive reviews

    Rating breakdown
    • Value for money
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    • Customer support
    • Likelihood to recommend8.96/10
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    Pros
    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.
    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.
    The best part of Limelight is the ease of use. It's very user friendly and easy to pick up.
    Cons
    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.
    Inability to change column or row members once a template or report is created.
    I don't think there is anything we disliked about Limelight, even the pricing is reasonable, so nothing to complain about.
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    Kyle K.

    Construction, 1,001-5,000 employees

    Used daily for 6-12 months

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    • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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    Best reporting solution for your budget!

    Reviewed 4 years ago

    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.

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    Sami N.

    Media Production, 201-500 employees

    Used daily for 2+ years

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    • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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    Excellent and Flexible Tool

    Reviewed 2 months ago

    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.

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    Eric V.

    Airlines/Aviation, 51-200 employees

    Used daily for 1-2 years

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    • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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    FlightAware

    Reviewed 2 months ago

    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.

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    Arlene B.

    Biotechnology, 11-50 employees

    Used daily for 6-12 months

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    • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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    Limelight Budget & Forecast Platform Tool

    Reviewed 2 months ago
    Pros

    Working with the Limelight Consultant made it virtually seamless to build and use the Limelight Budget & Forecast Platform for our company. The attention and knowledge from the Limelight Customer Service Team was second to none. The ability of the team to make changes on the fly to the build of the platform moved the project to completion in a short amount of time. The mimic of the platform to excel made the transition very easy. I liked that the design of the module included ALL formats. Very User Friendly. I also liked that it seamlessly integrated with our NetSuite ERP making it easy to report both "Actuals" and Budgets in all templates and reports

    Cons

    There were no cons. I loved everything about this product!

    JM
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    Jason M.

    Education Management, 1,001-5,000 employees

    Used weekly for less than 6 months

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    • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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    A big upgrade

    Reviewed 2 years ago

    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...

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