insightsoftware IDL
What is insightsoftware IDL?
Software for financial corporate management with integrated applications for group consolidation, financial planning, operational planning, management reporting, regulatory reporting and analysis.
About insightsoftware IDL
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Self-description of the vendor
insightsoftware is a global provider of comprehensive solutions for the Office of the CFO. We believe an actionable business strategy begins and ends with accessible financial
data. With solutions across financial planning and analysis (FP&A), accounting, and operations, we transform how teams operate, empowering leaders to make timely and informed decisions. With data at the heart of everything we do, insightsoftware enables automated processes, delivers trusted insights, boosts predictability, and increases productivity. Learn more at insightsoftware.com
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Provider and product description
insightsoftware is a US-based global provider of solutions for the office of the CFO backed by private equity investors Hg, TA Associates, and Genstar Capital. The company employs more than 2,600 people worldwide and serves over 34,000 customers with more than 500,000 active users in 150 countries. insightsoftware was formed in 2018 through the merger of Hubble and Global Software, Inc. The vendor’s rapid growth in recent years has been largely driven by acquisitions. In enterprise performance management (EPM), the key vendors acquired by segment include Bizview, Calumo, Fiplana, JustPerform, Longview, Power ON, and others (planning, budgeting, and forecasting); Clausion, IDL, JustPerform, Longview, Viareport, and others (financial close and consolidation); Certent and others (disclosure management and regulatory reporting); and CXO, Logi Analytics, and others (BI). This strategy has resulted in a broad portfolio of software solutions for finance, accounting, and data and analytics. In particular, the acquisition of JustPerform – a modern, unified, cloud-native platform for planning, budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidation, and reporting – strengthens insightsoftware’s ability to deliver an AI-driven, next-generation EPM platform for the future.
insightsoftware’s comprehensive product portfolio includes cloud and on-premises solutions for the key processes of today’s finance organizations: budgeting and planning, financial reporting, operational reporting, close and consolidation, disclosure management, ESG, tax reporting, business intelligence, analytics, and data management. These solutions can be used independently or in combination and are offered to customers based on their individual needs and strategic direction (e.g., focused use cases, UI requirements, industry, global or local orientation, company size, connectivity to source systems, etc.). The overall goal is to enable the office of the CFO to turn information into insights that empower business leaders to strategically drive their organizations.
In the DACH region, insightsoftware’s FPM go-to-market strategy serves customers across both cloud and on-premises deployment models. For organizations adopting cloud-based FPM, IDL Konsis delivers proven financial consolidation and close capabilities alongside JustPerform for planning, budgeting, forecasting, and AI-driven analytics – together forming a unified cloud FPM solution for the DACH market. For organizations desiring on-premises deployment, IDL provides a fully integrated FPM platform spanning financial consolidation and close (IDL Konsis), financial planning (IDL Forecast), and operational planning, reporting, and analysis (IDL Designer), meeting the regulatory, infrastructure, and data residency requirements common in the DACH region. The JustPerform DACH launch is following a phased approach, with planning and AI-driven predictive insights launched in January 2026, expanding mid-2026 to close and consolidation capabilities, and concluding with a fully integrated EPM platform featuring advanced AI across all modules – offering a clear migration path for on-premises IDL customers when they are ready to transition to the cloud.
IDL supports scenarios for financial planning with IDL Forecast and for operational budgets (e.g., sales, HR, etc.) with IDL Designer. IDL Forecast is aimed at business departments, often belonging to a corporate group. Company-wide financial result plans (balance sheet, P&L, cash flow) can be created at subsidiary or group level. IDL Forecast provides a predefined financial (planning) data model with intertwined business rules, based on relational data storage. Thanks to the tight integration with IDL Konsis, it is possible to consolidate plan data (or actuals) immediately, taking into account planned intercompany allocations. IDL Konsis offers comprehensive functions for legal consolidation including intercompany reconciliation as well as management consolidation. Extensive predefined business rules for financial management are available as standard in the solution. In addition to its operational planning functionality, IDL Designer is also the central component of IDL’s reporting platform, offering web-based functions for creating ad hoc and standard reports, OLAP analyses, and dashboards.
For additional requirements not covered by IDL, integration with other insightsoftware applications is possible via the insightsoftware platform.
Strengths and challenges of insightsoftware IDL
BARC’s viewpoint on the product’s strengths and challenges.
Strengths
- insightsoftware offers a comprehensive product portfolio for the key processes of finance organizations, including budgeting and planning, financial and operational reporting, close and consolidation, disclosure management, ESG, tax reporting, business intelligence, analytics, and data management. The solutions can be used independently or in combination to process data from multiple source systems.
- Powerful point solutions with comprehensive functionality to support finance processes that can be used independently or in combination, processing data from multiple source systems. Depending on the individual needs and strategic direction of customers, insightsoftware’s portfolio offers solutions for focused use cases in different industries and geographies, for different company sizes, and connectivity to data sources.
- IDL is an integrated platform and portfolio for financial consolidation and close, financial planning, reporting and analytics, disclosure management, and regulatory reporting that can be deployed in the cloud, on premises, or in hybrid scenarios. It provides extensive predefined business rules for financial management with tight integration of financial planning and consolidation. In addition, a web-based solution for operational planning is available, including comprehensive workflow and annotation functionality, ad hoc reporting, and OLAP analysis with data visualization options.
- Depending on individual customer requirements, the insightsoftware portfolio offers additional applications that can be combined with IDL, for example, via the insightsoftware platform that connects applications and provides centralized solution access, user management, security, and data access.
Challenges
- While many of insightsoftware’s products have a long history and existing customer base, the vendor is relatively new to the market, having launched in 2018. Today, insightsoftware and its products do not have the same market presence and global visibility as competing financial software solution providers (e.g., SAP, Oracle, etc.).
- Prior to being acquired, IDL was a local FPM specialist with a strong focus on its home markets in the DACH region and France. While the product’s head-to-head win rate is good, IDL’s solutions do not have the market presence to be considered for purchase worldwide.
- The breadth and constant addition of new products to the insightsoftware portfolio means that the ongoing development, integration, and unification of the various portfolio components (e.g., IDL) is a resource-intensive task for the vendor and a work in progress. Overall, 19 percent of surveyed customers complain that the product has a rather slow pace of development and innovation compared to competitors.
- Customer feedback in this year’s Financial Consolidation & Group Accounting Survey indicates mixed perceptions around the business benefits achieved, the customer satisfaction, and user experience with IDL, particularly its ease of use.
insightsoftware IDL User Reviews & Experiences
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The information and figures are largely drawn from BARC’s The BI & Analytics Survey, The Planning Survey, The Financial Consolidation Survey and The Data Management Survey. You can find out more about these surveys by clicking on the relevant links.
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Individual user reviews for insightsoftware IDL
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What do you like best?
Konsolidierungsschritte einfach zu verstehen.
What do you like least/what could be improved?
Anbindung an IDL Publisher.
What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?
Gut überlegen, was nach der Konsolidierung noch gemacht werden muss, z.B. Berichte schreiben, ESEF.
How would you sum up your experience?
Guter Kontakt zu Accountverantwortlichen, nicht alle Entwicklungen positiv seit IDL zu Insightsoftware gehört, keine ausgereiften Produktlösungen.
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What do you like best?
Sehr gute Fachberaterin, die uns bei fachlichen Themen sehr gut und schnell unterstützt/berät.
What do you like least/what could be improved?
Die technische Hotline ist immer schlechter erreichbar, mit längeren Reaktionszeiten als zu Beginn (Installation im Unternehmen war 2010), bei gleichzeitig deutlich steigenden Wartungskosten! Das heißt, der Service wird schlechter, die Kosten steigen jedoch für den schlechteren Service. Das ist tatsächlich enttäuschend für uns als Kunden.
What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?
Einen Prototyp vor finaler Kaufentscheidung erstellen.
How would you sum up your experience?
Die fachliche Beratung ist sehr kompetent und empfehlenswert. Die technische Unterstützung ist verbesserungswürdig! Das System ist nach einer ersten Produkt-Fachschulung wirklich in den wesentlichen Funktionen intuitiv bedienbar!
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What do you like best?
Deutschsprachige Hotline für Fachbereich und IT. Flexibilität zwischen Automatismen und manuellen Buchungen. Abbildung von Sachverhalten im Voraus möglich, nicht erst, wenn alle Kontensalden vorhanden sind.
What do you like least/what could be improved?
Ansprechbarkeit der Hotline vor dem Ticketsystem und persönlich häufige Release-Updates führen dazu, dass man in sehr kurzer Zeit out of Maintenance ist. Obwohl die Updates oft für Planung und Controlling sind und nicht im Konsolidierungsbereich, der von uns ausschließlich genutzt wird.
What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?
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How would you sum up your experience?
Sehr gutes Verhältnis mit offenen Gesprächspartnern.
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What do you like best?
Fachberatung und logisches Arbeiten.
What do you like least/what could be improved?
Einige Funktionen, die immer wieder manuell angestoßen werden müssen.
What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?
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How would you sum up your experience?
Gute Erfahrungen.
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What do you like best?
Wenig Schnickschnack. Direktes Zusammenspiel mit den IST-Daten der Konsolidierung.
What do you like least/what could be improved?
Die Oberfläche, die manchmal etwas komplexe Handhabung, die technisch-fachliche Beratung in der Verfügbarkeit.
What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?
Nicht ohne XLS-Link arbeiten und wenn irgendwie möglich, die geplanten Termine einhalten, da kurzfristige Verschiebungen so gut wie nicht möglich sind. Unser Berater war jedenfalls eigentlich immer 3-4 Wochen im Voraus verplant.
How would you sum up your experience?
Software läuft und macht aktuell das, was wir wollten. Fachliche Beratung sehr gut, wenn man einen Termin bekommt. Antwortgeschwindigkeit des Supports sollte verbessert werden. In Summe: Kann man gut mit arbeiten.
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What do you like best?
It is functional.
What do you like least/what could be improved?
Integration, scalability with effective price.
What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?
Get training but consider other options first.
How would you sum up your experience?
It is basic, and we need to understand how to use it better. We've not had enough support and encouragement to do this.
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What do you like best?
Flexibel & schnell anpassbar
What do you like least/what could be improved?
Kaum Innovation.
What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?
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How would you sum up your experience?
Alles soweit in Ordnung.
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What do you like best?
Konsolidierungslösung. Integration der verschiedenen Module (Cockpit, Publisher, Designer, Konsis).
What do you like least/what could be improved?
Bei Buttom-Up-Planung je Kostenstelle und Kostenart fehlen die Szenario-Rechnungen im IDL Cockpit (auf GuV Ebene)
What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?
Konzept muss vorliegen.
How would you sum up your experience?
Grundsätzlich gut. Seit der Fusion mit der insightsoftware sehr viele unterschiedliche Ansprechpartner.
