Essbase Alternative : deFacto Performance Mangement

I have used Essbase ever day for the past 13+ years, its huge part of my life, but I've recently started working on some clients running a viable Essbase alternative, deFacto Performance Management.  I'm not saying that I'm leaving Essbase behind, but those of you looking for an alternative to the Hyperion suite (Essbase, Planning, HFM) on the Microsoft platform, might want to give deFacto a look.  Since it offers as good or better performance but at a far more manageable cost, deFacto is a definite possibility for you.

For more information, please see their website defactoglobal.com and mention this blog for special discount on pricing.  Here is some quick points for your reference regarding deFacto Performance Management

• A good way to think about deFacto is that they are Microsoft’s answer to the Hyperion’s of the world, except far less expensive to get up and running and support.

• deFacto Planning is a complete & unified solution - combining budgeting, planning, forecasting, consolidation, reporting and analysis all into one unified product. So unlike their competitors you only have to purchase one solution and not cobble together a bunch of different products to get the functionality you need.

• deFacto’s native Excel user interface securely connects to deFacto’s pre-built Microsoft SQL-based data warehouse. Utilizing both the relational database and multi-dimensional (cube) Analysis Services capabilities of SQL, deFacto offers unmatched performance and scalability.

• deFacto offers the most flexible deployment options as well – on-premise, hosted, cloud, physical or virtual – the choice is completely up to you. Additionally they have both web and device-based reporting, analysis, and budgeting capabilities

Check them out and let me know what you think, I am really stoked about the possibilities of working with deFacto.