# Acterys Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra

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Acterys

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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Reviews of Acterys

Ease of use

4.5

Customer Service

4.7

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Khaled C.  
Global Director, Data & Analytics  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Hyper-Segmented Business Solution for Planning that works"

March 30, 2021

5.0

Pros

Acterys leverages best-of-breed technology, SQL, PowerBI, and adds their secret sauce of enabling write back with pretty amazing techniques like splashing and planning and multi-level simultaneously. Hence we can leverage the current team and create value seamlessly with low code technologies

Cons

Regular growing pains of keeping up with PowerBI deployments and continuous upgrades. Due to fast advancing technologies, you need to ensure you are adopting best practices as they are developed

Reason for choosing Acterys

New Generation technology that reduces the technical burden significantly and introduced flexibility to meet the demand of business on time

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MM

Mario M.  
Financial Consultant - Reporting, Risk, Audit.  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Acterys Reporting using Power BI"

September 6, 2021

4.0

The whole team were more than willing to assist whenever and where ever they can.

Pros

Drill down to transaction level from high level Income/Balance Sheet/Cash Flow statement

Cons

Setting up the consolidation model and the mapping and calculation of the intercompany accounts

Alternatives considered

[Spotlight Reporting](https://www.capterra.com/p/159553/Spotlight-Reporting/)[Fathom](https://www.capterra.com/p/136476/Fathom/)

Reason for choosing Acterys

Pricing, integration with Xero and back-end system that allows drill-down to transactional level

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JS

Jonnie S.  
ePMO and BI Manager  
Retail  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Enhanced and flexible BI Writeback Planning Features from within Power BI"

November 22, 2021

4.0

Integrating Acterys with Power BI allowed us to replace an antiquated and cumbersome spreadsheet-based process with an online, real-time, dynamic process.

Pros

The built-in Writeback functionality and tight integration with the Microsoft Power BI platform enabled us to deliver a full Planning/Budgeting/Forecasting solution to our Users in weeks instead of months.

Cons

There are a few quirks and gotchas with using the Writeback to the Cube. Even after we thought we'd figured out all the details, they seem to come back to haunt us periodically.

Alternatives considered

[Workday Adaptive Planning](https://www.capterra.com/p/130072/Adaptive-Insights/)

Reason for choosing Acterys

Cost and integration with existing Power BI architecture.

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JH

John H.  
Lead Analytics Engineer  
Music  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Great, affordable solution"

November 12, 2021

4.0

Really a great solution that has allowed us to level up our QB-based reporting. I am still astonished by its affordability.

Pros

The use case (for us) was very QB specific, but we were not able to resolve this with any other tool without a bunch of custom modeling. Acterys offers an incredibly easy and affordable solution.

Cons

No endpoint for refreshing datasets (that I'm aware of); also, PKs seem to be regenerated with each refresh, which can be a pain.

Alternatives considered

[CData Sync](https://www.capterra.com/p/228591/CData-Sync/)

Reason for choosing Acterys

We were not able to pull the GL as such from CData Sync. We were able to pull various other business objects, but it would've amounted to a lot of remodeling effort to get the GL view we wanted.

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TT

Thom T.  
Director  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "XP&A in a Day"

March 30, 2021

5.0

Solution fully integrated in Power BI, MS Excel and finally MS Azure/SQL Server, really seamlessly built on Microsoft technologies. Can be also setup OnPrem, which was one of our requirments. Extremely fast, performant write-back engine.

Pros

It took us literally only one day to implement an integrated financial planning model (PL, BS, CF) based on our existing Power BI reports. Fully parameterized simulation, budgeting, and rolling forecast. We could easily leverage from exisiting demo templates Acterys is packaged with. We could easily enhance our initial planning model to any further xP&A planning requirements by adding and connecting additional planning cubes.

Cons

Acterys provides really an overwhelming set of features, which could be challenging for beginners. But there's a great support team and the help file/Wiki with best practice samples and templates finally helping in any such situation.

Reason for choosing Acterys

Limited feature set (import functionalities, visuals), slower write-back engine

Switched from

[Jedox](https://www.capterra.com/p/130198/Jedox-Budgeting/)

No full integration into Power BI;

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RW

Richie W.  
Managing Director  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Taking Excel and Power BI to the next level"

July 28, 2020

5.0

Budgeting, Planning and forecasting within a multiple entities , currencies and systems. Financial consolidation with inter company eliminations

Pros

End to end platform. Acterys picks up the hardest part of CPM and BI... data management and data modelling. I have worked with other solutions, as soon as you get into data integration or transactional data, you start to reach the limits the system too quickly. The level of automation and flexibility is unparalleled. Beautiful Power BI templates with pre-baked financial intelligence, with the ability to build custom reports from scratch ... if you have either a planning, reporting, financial consolidation Or BI requirement and you use Excel and or Power BI, this is an absolute must

Cons

Great customer experience. Some initial configuration for the workflow

Reason for choosing Acterys

Fast ROI. Usability. End to end platform

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AJ

Adriaan J.  
CEO  
Accounting  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Incredible Performance & Functionality"

April 29, 2021

5.0

The performance of Acterys is great. It's fast and reliable. The resource library (wiki Page) is content rich and updated regularly. The solution integrates beautifully with Power BI and Excel. The right back functionality is an absolute game changer. After engaging with this product, you get the feeling that there is a very competent team behind this product, one that has a great understanding not only how to build a great product, but how to scale it without compromising on performance. Well done to everyone involved. Incredible work.

Pros

Incredible performance backed by best in the business technology like MS Azure SQL Server. There is a great set of features built into this product. The ability to add additional cubes and right back functionality is fantastic. Its easy to implement and to built beautiful reports in a day. Complicated DAX measures...it all done for you. Very impressed.

Cons

There is really a lot of features and it can be overwhelming if you do not know where to start. Once you learn to navigate the wiki page, it really does get a lot less overwhelming.

Reason for choosing Acterys

The performance of Acterys is on a totally different level than our previous solution. It's fast and it just works seamlessly.

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GK

Gavin K.  
Financial Director  
Import and Export  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Acterys Planning and writeback - Compelling product"

March 29, 2021

5.0

I have only had positive experiences from Agility \[SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN\] and colleagues have always supported me from the beginning. Never to much of a hassle to resolve my demanding issues and questions.

Pros

Writeback functionality from Power Bi is amazing. We have one source of the truth and no more excel workbooks with links all over the place. No version difference. Easy to integrate and use once over the learning curve.

Cons

My only negative, and i understand now that its a feature of the product. Its not intended to be a replacement of an ERP system or database, so is limited once the cube becomes too large.

Reason for choosing Acterys

As mentioned above i didn't know of any alternatives. I do now, but believe that Agility with its local support and keen pricing is the best decision we could of made.

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Gaston C.  
Business Intelligence Technical Manager  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: I used a free trial

### "Great experience and ease to use tool for planning and budgeting"

August 2, 2018

5.0

Support, training, consulting and a good team worried about a satisfied client for long term partnership relationship.

Pros

Integration between ease to use tools like Excel and Power BI, so the user can use common financial tools and create stunning reports for Planning, Financial and Budgeting and control daily basis operation, with a great write back to a consistent model as a backend system. The integration with Financial systems like ABC, QuickBooks Online, and Xerox is a good tool.

Cons

Some financial basic knowledge that the user need as a pre requisite. In that case the user can ask for training, webinars or support.

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Response from FP&A Software

August 2, 2018

Gaston, Thank you for the kind review of Acterys! Just one little addendum: the accounting system supported with a one click connector is Xero not Xerox.

VR

Verified Reviewer  
IT Administrator  
Accounting  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Good product"

April 1, 2021

5.0

Pros

The setup is easy and integration with the Accounting system is seamless.

Cons

The billing part is somehow disappointing as you cannot use a credit card to purchase on the site.

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YK

Yury K.  
Business Relationship Manager BI / Commerce  
Food & Beverages  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Profit and Loss using Acterys "

June 11, 2021

5.0

Pros

I like the idea of the app itself, not only to use Power BI as a reporting system, but also to enter the data needed for further use. In one place to both see a sales report and to plan future sales. It is possible to install the system both or to use as a SAAS solution. Hybrid solutions are also possible.

Cons

In our particular case, implementing the solution required serious customisation, including tons of SQL code. But the Acterys specialists handled it successfully.

Reason for choosing Acterys

Acterys provided SAAS solution that was very important for us due to a limited time available for implementation

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