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NICE Merced vs Planful comparison

NICE and Planful are both solutions in the Business Performance Management category. NICE is ranked #29, while Planful is ranked #15. NICE holds a 0.4% mindshare in BPM, compared to Planful’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of NICE users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Planful users who would recommend it.
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100% willing to recommend
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100% willing to recommend
 

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Categories and Ranking

NICE Merced
Ranking in Business Performance Management
29th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Planful
Ranking in Business Performance Management
15th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Financial Close Software (20th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of NICE Merced is 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Planful is 2.8%, down from 3.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Performance Management
 

Featured Reviews

it_user217446 - PeerSpot reviewer
The product is incredibly powerful although it can be a little temperamental when communicating between our corporate network and the hosted solution.
Take your time and get the basics right first. The whole solution will work and deliver results so much better if you get it set up correctly first time. You can correct initial set up but if you've put a lot of data into it, it will mean a lot of rework.
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reviewer1110591 - PeerSpot reviewer
It has helped us speed up the turnaround time on our consolidation, and we haven't had anything come up that the program has not been able to solve
The part that we liked about Excel is that it had a better interface in terms of just graphical illustration of our results. So, if we wanted to look at our financial trends and put it into some type of graphical interface for people to look at, we still have to leverage Excel for that. The dashboards aren't as usable as maybe some of the other solutions, such as Tableau or other BI tools. The application that we use today for our BI tools is Tableau. That's how people absorb information. We don't really use the functionality or dashboards within Planful because of the robustness of Tableau. That's our single source of data. If Planful was better or more comparable in terms of features and functionality, we could probably leverage that in Planful.
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Real Estate/Law Firm
6%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
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Also Known As

Merced
Host Analytics
 

Overview

Merced's flagship solutions, available in on-premise, SaaS and hosted models, include Merced Service Performance Management, which provides performance analytics and dashboards, service coaching, incentive management and real-time reporting for enterprise service personnel. They also include Merced Sales Performance Management with incentive and quota management, performance analytics and dashboards, sales development and coaching, and other analytics solutions.
NICE

You need a financial planning solution that meets the structured demands of standardized financial planning and reporting requirements and regulations. Structured Planning with Planful automates labor-intensive planning activities in a complete cloud-based platform – giving your finance team control, consistency, and confidence in corporate financial plans.

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Sample Customers

Financial Services
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