BrightAnalytics: a Pigment alternative for multidimensional FP&A and reporting

Why companies choose BrightAnalytics

1. Reporting built on financial reality

Getting a complete view of your actual performance shouldn’t require building reporting structures, chart of accounts mappings, or financial logic from scratch. 

Brightanalytics comes with pre-built financial logic from day one, automatically combining your actual cash flow, profit and loss statements, balance sheets, and budgets into one unified environment. You get a reliable, 360-degree view of your current performance without having to program the architecture yourself. 

Because we read data directly from your source systems, you’re never trapped at a high summary level. You can slice and dice figures across analytical dimensions and drill down straight to transaction-level postings and original scanned PDF invoices.

2. Access 400+ native plug-and-play integrations

We connect to your systems, cloud or on-premise, with 400+ integrations already built. If your system isn’t on the list, we typically build the connector in a matter of days. The platform sits as a direct layer on top of your accounting, ERP, and CRM systems, so you spend your time analyzing data instead of gathering it.

3. Intuitive admin panel that lets you sit in the driver’s seat 

Configuring flexible modeling software often creates a heavy dependency on external consultants. What should be a quick adjustment to a dashboard or cost center can easily turn into a weeks-long technical request.

BrightAnalytics puts full control back in your hands: 

• Admin panel control: Change reporting structures, general ledger account mappings, dashboards, and user access rights directly inside our self-service admin panel. 
• No specialist required: Finance and business teams can adjust the system directly without needing to rely on  changes by IT or external specialists. 
• Rapid deployment: Embedded financial logic allows your team to go from setup to reporting in a matter weeks, rather than months of configuration. . 

4. Consolidation that handles the complexity for you

Managing a multi-entity group requires robust consolidation capabilities. Without a native consolidation engine, processing intercompany eliminations and managing multi-currency conversions requires constant manual workarounds or complex custom scripts. 

BrightAnalytics automates group consolidation entirely through our Advanced Consolidation app: 

• Transaction-level IC eliminations: Intercompany bookings are identified directly at the source. Integrated AI matching analyzes invoice descriptions and currencies across entities to pair sales and purchase records, resolving discrepancies automatically. 
• Automated legal methods: Full, proportional, or equity consolidation methods, along with non-controlling interests and deferred taxes, run automatically out of the box. 
• Live exchange rate conversions: Multi-currency translations process automatically using live exchange rates from central banks like the European Central Bank. tandard reports like P&L, balance sheets, and budgets are ready from day one.

5. One reliable source of truth

BrightAnalytics data stays 100% aligned with your source systems. The built-in health check catches discrepancies between what’s reported and what’s booked before they reach your reports. With everything captured in one platform, you always have a single, clear version of your financial and operational performance to work from.

6. Clear insights in where your numbers come from

To truly understand a budget variance or an unexpected cost spike, you need to verify the source instantly. In custom-modeled applications, visibility often stops at a high summary level, leaving you guessing about the underlying numbers.