
Hive9
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What is Hive9?
Hive9's cloud-based marketing performance management solution addresses the most common challenges marketing leaders face. Our platform includes up to three integrated modules to help marketers do their jobs more efficiently, collaboratively and transparently so that they can provide the best customer experience: Marketing Planning & Collaboration, Marketing Financial Management & Purchasing Support, and Marketing Performance & Attribution. Hive9 brings your entire marketing plan into an intelligent calendar, providing immediate visibility, insights and better collaboration to ensure your plan is aligned with your strategy. We connect your plan automatically to your budget and actual expenses to ensure no surprises with your CFO and provide better knowledge of your spending by vendor, region, product, target audience and much more. Finally, we clearly show you what's working and what's not. Hive9 performance reports donβt only look backward. We use the foundation of your total plan to predict the business impact for the year and constantly compare with actual results. This forward-looking approach highlights problems in time to implement solutions and produces dashboards that drive action to improve your plan.
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Hive9 Reviews (3)
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Review Summary
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Hive9 receives unanimous praise from its users. All three reviewers rate the product at five stars and highlight genuine workflow improvements without reserving major complaints.
Users consistently emphasize ease of use and time savings. One customer cut invoice processing from twenty minutes per document to just a couple, while another moved from a cumbersome multi-tab Excel budget sheet to a streamlined platform. A third praises intuitive navigation and the ability to extract and visualize marketing spend data quickly. The platform's flexible hierarchy and integration with tools like Salesforce and GSAP also drew appreciation for accommodating different organizational needs.
The vendor relationship itself is a selling point. One customer specifically credits Hive9's responsiveness in customizing the product to their unique requirements rather than forcing them into a generic out-of-box setup. The only real friction mentioned is minorβthat product updates to meet evolving user needs occasionally require process adjustments on the customer side, which the reviewer frames as a positive sign of ongoing improvement rather than a genuine problem.
These reviews suggest Hive9 works well for finance and marketing operations teams who value both software usability and vendor partnership.
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Tuesday, July 6, 2021
ββHive9 for the win!β Overall: We could not have askedβ¦β
βHive9 for the win!β Overall: We could not have asked for a better partner. Hive9 has worked with us from inception to reality. Hive9 continually works with us to implement changes that will continually make the product better for our needs. Pros: Hive9 allowed us to obtain a holistic view of our marketing efforts globally. Hive9 is very accomodating, [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] listens to our needs and finds a way to implement and make processes easier for us. Cons: Hive9 is always changing to meet user needs and make the product better. There can be minor amendments to your process from time to time as a result. Reasons for Choosing Hive9: The support that was offered with Hive9 to take the out of box option and make it our own to solve our unique needs. Reasons for Switching to Hive9: We had outgrown our homegrown system.
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Tuesday, July 6, 2021
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What do you like best? Hive9 is so easy to use and helps to get my invoicing done much quicker! It is so much easier to complete each invoice within a couple of minutes when before, one invoice would take me at least twenty minutes. What do you dislike? So far, I don't dislike anything! Everything has been so great! What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? I went from my budget sheet in Excel, which was slow to load and so many different tabs, to everything in Hive9. It has saved me so much time when I do my invoicing, and it is so much easier to find old invoices. Hive9 has helped free up some time, so I can focus my attention on other tasks to help out the business in other areas. I get my invoices paid in a much more timely manner which also helps out the business.
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Tuesday, July 6, 2021
βHive9 provides an easy navigation on the screen and aβ¦β
Hive9 provides an easy navigation on the screen and a good visual of data on each page. It is very easy to analyse and extract requested set of data and get a very quick overview/status of marketing spend. A logical hierarchy is build in with a flexibility to select relevant attributes for each hierarchy level. This enables a detailed overview for each spend. An easy integration with other tools like GSAP, SalesForce. An easy administration of the site by the admins. An intuitive digital platform for marketers to plan, manage, monitor and analyse their spend on marketing activities. Be able to compare easily the planned cost of those activities versus actuals which come from GSAP. Constant visibility of marketing spend linked to budget with an easy access to the data.
