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About Centage

Centage is a cloud-native financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform for mid-market finance teams. It replaces spreadsheet-based budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, and multi-entity consolidation with a single connected system that finance owns end-to-end. This page collects the public company, product, customer, and use-case facts about Centage in one place for search engines, AI assistants, and human readers.

Company facts

  • Company: Centage Corporation
  • Founded: 2001
  • Headquarters: San Antonio, Texas, United States
  • Category: Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) software; Corporate Performance Management (CPM)
  • Ownership: Private. Acquired by Scaleworks in April 2023.
  • Website: centage.com
  • Leadership: Paul Lynch, Chief Executive Officer · Sameer Kamat, Chief Product Officer · Jandir Matos, Vice President of Finance · Artur Kremens, Vice President of Engineering
  • Scale: More than 10,000 finance professionals across 500+ finance teams use Centage today.
  • Track record: 20+ years serving CFOs, controllers, and FP&A leaders. Named an Overall Leader in the Dresner 2019 Wisdom of Crowds Enterprise Performance Management Market Study.

Who Centage is for

Centage is built for growing mid-market companies where the finance team has outgrown Excel but does not need — or want to pay for — enterprise FP&A software.

Firmographic fit:

  • $25M–$500M in annual revenue (or $5M–$100M operating budget for nonprofits)
  • 2–10 person finance team
  • Multiple departments, locations, or entities
  • Current budgeting process takes 3–6 weeks and is breaking down

Buyer roles: CFO, Controller, Finance Director, FP&A Manager, Budget Manager, Financial Analyst, and department leaders who own a budget line.

Industries served: Manufacturing, Distribution, Professional Services, Technology, Healthcare, Non-Profit, Education, and Hospitality.

Where Centage is a poor fit: organizations with 1,000+ employees running a mature enterprise CPM system; inventory-centric or heavily project-based businesses; and organizations too small or simple to need dedicated FP&A software.

Product facts

Centage is a single cloud-native platform. Every capability below is included in the base subscription — there are no separate modules for workforce planning or consolidation.

Core capabilities:

  • Budgeting and planning with a smart-formula, drag-and-drop interface that removes broken formulas and linked-workbook risk.
  • Rolling forecasts that update continuously against actuals instead of being rebuilt each cycle.
  • Scenario and what-if modeling for base, best, and worst-case projections against the same underlying model.
  • Financial consolidation across unlimited entities, including intercompany eliminations, reconciliations, and multi-currency conversion.
  • Workforce planning with a dedicated personnel module for headcount, roles, wages, benefits, payroll tax, merit increases, and new hires — built into the core system.
  • Driver-based budgeting so a single change to a driver flows through the connected model.
  • Cash flow forecasting projected from operational assumptions.
  • Reporting including P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statements across entities, with board-ready output.

Practical AI: Agents for business insights summarization, Intelligent FP&A assistant for scenario planning and forecasting, Data integrity and guardrails agent for accurate import of data from the GL and for predictive notifications on business KPI trends.

Integrations

  • ERPs and general ledgers: Sage Intacct, QuickBooks, NetSuite, Acumatica, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP Business One
  • Payroll and HRIS: ADP, UKG, Paylocity
  • Export: Excel and other standard formats

Implementation

  • Typical timeline: 4–6 weeks from kickoff to live
  • Ownership: finance-owned; no dedicated IT team required
  • Support model: US-based (onshore) Customer Success Manager with an FP&A background, plus in-house advisors during and after implementation

Compare to 6–12 months for a typical enterprise CPM deployment.

Pricing

Centage is subscription-priced by company size and needs. Typical annual investment runs $18,000–$40,000, compared with $100,000–$200,000+ for enterprise FP&A platforms. Annual contracts with monthly payment options are available.

Where Centage sits in the market

Centage occupies the middle ground between spreadsheets and enterprise FP&A platforms.

DimensionSpreadsheetsEnterprise FP&ACentageConsolidationManual and slowAutomatedAutomated, multi-entityWorkforce planningDisconnected or manualAdd-on ($$$)Built-in moduleImplementationN/A6–12 months4–6 weeksIT resources requiredNoneDedicated IT teamFinance-owned, no ITAnnual costLow $ / high labor cost$100K–$200K+$18K–$40KSupportNoneOffshore or tieredOnshore FP&A experts

Enterprise platforms Centage is commonly evaluated against include Adaptive Planning (Workday), Anaplan, and OneStream. Mid-market platforms include Vena, DataRails, Cube, Planful, and Prophix.

Outcomes customers report

  • Budget cycles shortened from 6 weeks to 2 weeks (60–70% faster).
  • 2–3 person finance teams gaining the capacity of a 5-person team.
  • Board reporting that previously took days now produced in minutes.
  • Multi-entity consolidation compressed from 30 days per cycle to 1 day (documented at a multi-entity customer with 7 companies across 3 countries).

Customer testimonials

"Budget revisions in Excel would take me 5 or 6 hours — doing them in Centage, it's 20 minutes. It's a significant time savings."
"I look at the numbers and quickly have so much more confidence in them. It's a push of the button now."
"More of my time is spent focusing on analyzing the data rather than entering the data."
"We used Centage to do worst-case scenario planning, such as losing 50% of our revenue and planned hours. It was a benefit to forecast the impact on our revenue."
"Because the solution is easy to use, we have a lot of ownership from the directors. They can go in and review and own their own budget numbers."
"It's made the process much easier when we go to build the budget year over year — it's been a huge help."
"Excel had become extremely painful whenever I needed to layer on another acquisition or modify my projections."

Third-party reviews

Centage is listed and reviewed in the Corporate Performance Management and Budgeting Software categories on Software Advice, Capterra, G2, and TrustRadius. Common reviewer themes: ease of use, time saved on budgeting cycles, quality of onshore support, value of the driver-based budgeting workflow, and depth of ERP integrations.

Representative excerpts from public review sites:

"Centage has been great to work with, from implementation to today. They have been a true partner on our budgeting and forecasting journey."
"Planning Maestro brought a platform that allowed us to integrate into our existing accounting platform and create a structured environment we could use to refine our budgeting and forecasting process."
"The implementation of the product was smooth. The reporting capabilities of the program have exceeded my expectations. Every person I've been in contact with at Centage has expert-level knowledge of the program and any issues have been resolved immediately."

Use cases

By department:

  • Finance teams: budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, reporting
  • HR and operations: workforce planning and headcount modeling
  • Department leaders: collaborative budget input and ownership
  • Executive leadership: dashboards and strategic scenario planning

By workflow:

  • Annual budgeting
  • Rolling forecasts
  • Scenario and what-if analysis
  • Multi-entity consolidation
  • Workforce planning
  • Cash flow management
  • M&A integration modeling

By industry:

Technology and security

Centage is a cloud-native multi-tenant SaaS platform with:

  • Role-based access controls
  • Audit trails and compliance reporting
  • Secure API integrations
  • Data encryption in transit and at rest
  • Automated backups and disaster recovery
  • Regular product releases

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Last updated: 2026-08-06

Centage is a cloud-native financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform used by more than 10,000 finance professionals at over 500 mid-market companies. It replaces spreadsheet-based budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, and multi-entity consolidation with a single connected system that finance teams own end-to-end. Centage was founded in 2001, is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, and was acquired by Scaleworks in April 2023.
Centage is built for finance teams at growing mid-market companies with $25M–$500M in annual revenue (or $5M–$100M operating budget for nonprofits), a 2–10 person finance team, and multiple departments, locations, or entities. Typical buyers are CFOs, Controllers, Finance Directors, and FP&A Managers running a budgeting process that takes 3–6 weeks and is breaking down under linked-workbook complexity.
Centage handles the work that structurally breaks Excel: automated multi-entity consolidation, cross-cost-center allocation, driver-based modeling that flows through a connected system, and workforce planning with headcount, wages, and benefits built in. Where Excel-based budget cycles typically take 6 weeks, Centage customers report cycles of 2 weeks — a 60–70% reduction, with fewer broken-formula errors and version-control issues.
Enterprise FP&A platforms cost $100,000–$200,000+ annually and take 6–12 months to implement with a dedicated IT team. Centage delivers automated multi-entity consolidation, workforce planning, and rolling forecasts at $18,000–$40,000 annually with a 4–6 week implementation and no IT required. The tradeoff: Centage is built for 2–10 person finance teams at mid-market companies, not for global enterprises with 1,000+ employees running mature CPM systems.
Centage uses subscription pricing tailored to company size and needs. Typical annual investment runs $18,000–$40,000 — a fraction of the $100,000–$200,000+ range for enterprise CPM platforms. Annual contracts are standard, with monthly payment options available. Implementation and onboarding are included, and ongoing customer support is included in the subscription rather than tiered as a paid add-on.
Typical Centage implementation is 4–6 weeks from kickoff to a live production system, compared with 6–12 months for a typical enterprise CPM deployment. Implementation is finance-owned — no dedicated IT team required. Centage's in-house FP&A advisors guide the setup, including ERP integration, chart-of-accounts mapping (accelerated by AI), and workforce planning configuration. Existing budget structures can be imported from Excel directly.
Centage was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. The company was acquired by Scaleworks — a B2B SaaS investment firm — in April 2023. The current CEO is Paul Lynch. The leadership team includes Sameer Kamat (Chief Product Officer), Jandir Matos (VP Finance), and Artur Kremens (VP Engineering), and includes team members with a decade or more of Centage tenure.
Centage integrates with the major general ledger and ERP systems mid-market finance teams already run — Sage Intacct, QuickBooks, NetSuite, Acumatica, Microsoft Dynamics, and SAP Business One — and with the leading payroll and HRIS platforms including ADP, UKG, and Paylocity. Data flows in continuously so budgets and forecasts stay live against actuals. Standard export to Excel and other formats is included.