Built for the ledger you already run.
Live GL connection, not a monthly dump.
The Centage Data Integrator installs behind your firewall and pushes actuals into Centage on a nightly schedule. No Excel export. No person in the loop.
Budget every position without a bolt-on.
Positions, wage bands, benefits, and payroll tax by state, all in the built-in Personnel Module. No separate license.
Consolidation, eliminations, board pack in minutes.
Multi-entity roll-up runs automatically. Intercompany eliminations, funder reports, and the board packet built the same way every month.
$18K to $40K, live in 4 to 6 weeks.
Finance-owned setup. No 6-to-12-month enterprise rollout. No $100K enterprise ticket. Onshore FP&A-literate support.
Insurance if you ever migrate.
The FP&A model transfers when your GL does. Move from GP to Business Central, or Sage 100 to Intacct. The reports move with you.
Centage Data Integrator, installed once, runs itself.
CDI is a Windows lightweight application that installs on the server hosting your GL. It authenticates with a read-only SQL user, reads the tables Centage needs (chart of accounts, base structures, transaction detail, account summary, GL budget versions), writes a canonical file, and pushes it to Centage on the schedule you set. Windows Task Scheduler runs it every night. Finance runs updated reports every morning.
- Read-only SQL user. No writes back to your GL, ever.
- Runs inside your firewall. No inbound port needs to open.
- Set once, forget. Task Scheduler runs the pull. No person in the loop.
- Nightly by default. Daily and on-demand also supported.
Comparision table of FP&A-to-GL integration.
We do not claim real-time on any on-prem GL. Everything below runs nightly or daily on your schedule. The four tiers are what separates a connector that holds from one that flakes.
| Your GL | Spreadsheets | Enterprise FP&A (Adaptive, Anaplan, Planful) | Centage · Our pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) | Manual export | Cloud APIs only; GP on-prem out of scope | CDI agent, scheduled |
| Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) | Manual export | Not supported | CDI agent, scheduled |
| Microsoft Dynamics SL (Solomon) | Manual export | Not supported | CDI agent, scheduled |
| Microsoft Dynamics AX (Axapta 2009 / 2012) | Manual export | Not supported | CDI agent, scheduled |
| Sage 100 | Manual export | Not supported | CDI agent, scheduled |
| Sage 300 (ACCPAC) | Manual export | Not supported | CDI agent, scheduled |
| Sage 500 | Manual export | Not supported | CDI agent, scheduled |
| SYSPRO | Manual export | Not supported | CDI agent, scheduled |
| QuickBooks Desktop | Manual export | Not supported | CDI agent, run manually |
| Sage Intacct | Manual export | Cloud API | Cloud API, nightly rolling pull |
| Oracle NetSuite | Manual export | Cloud API | Cloud API |
| Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT | Manual export | Not on marketplace | Cloud API, CSV fallback |
| Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central | Manual export | Cloud API | Cloud API |
| QuickBooks Online | Manual export | Cloud API | Cloud API |
| Acumatica | Manual export | Cloud API | Cloud API |
| Sage MIP (Abila) | Manual export | Not supported | Partner-facilitated |
| Emphasys | Manual export | Not supported | Partner-facilitated |
| Epicor (incl. Kinetic) | Manual export | Not supported | CIF file upload |
| Deltek (Costpoint, Vision) | Manual export | Not supported | CIF file upload |
| Multiview | Manual export | Not supported | CIF file upload |
| Anything else on-prem | Manual export | Not supported | CIF file upload |
Adhesive Technologies runs on SYSPRO, an on-prem manufacturing ERP that the entire cloud-native FP&A category ignores. SYSPRO does not natively produce financial statements. Before Centage, that meant a manual Excel workflow at every close.
Now the CDI agent pulls SYSPRO data on a schedule Wintle set once and hasn't touched since. Actuals land in Centage. Actuals land in his Excel report format. Every month, the same five-minute workflow.
“It takes me five minutes, boom, I have them in Excel. Everything works very smoothly.”Steeve Wintle · Controller · Adhesive Technologies, Inc.
The cloud-native FP&A vendors do not support SYSPRO. The enterprise FP&A vendors cost $50K to $500K a year. Centage sits between them, at $18K to $40K.
Continuity across a GL migration (if you ever make one).
If you do decide to migrate, from Dynamics GP to Business Central, Sage 100 to Intacct, Dynamics NAV to Business Central, or any other move, the FP&A layer stays. Your model, historical actuals, budget versions, forecasts, workforce plans, and board reports transfer. We re-point the connector at the new GL. The Excel shadow layer stays gone. You do not rebuild the FP&A stack from zero.
Your CIF data foundation is portable. The CDI agent generates the same CIF whether the source is GP or Sage 100 or NAV. The Centage model reads CIF. Change the source, keep the model.
Stay on your GL for the next ten years and Centage still works. Move to a cloud GL in 2028 and Centage moves with you. Same tool. Same reports. Same board packet.
Teams like yours, already there
What Centage looks like in practice across different industries and org structures.
“Centage gave us the flexibility we knew we needed, but thought we couldn't achieve. It allowed us to totally change our approach to the budgeting process.”
“90% of what I do revolves around Centage. It's simple, fast, and without it, I couldn't do my job. I didn't get much training when I started, but I was able to jump right in.”
“It's a wonderful thing that I can go in, hit a couple of buttons, wait a few minutes and all my actuals data comes right into Centage. I have access to so much more information now than I ever had before.”
Three workflows a legacy GL cannot do alone.
Built for finance teams on legacy and on-prem general ledgers. If your GL is Dynamics GP, Sage 100, Blackbaud FE NXT, MIP, SYSPRO, or QuickBooks Desktop, three workflows break Excel at every close: hand-assembling trial balances out of the ledger's Windows client, holding a position-level workforce plan the GL cannot store, and running multi-entity consolidation across a workbook chain that grows.
Centage runs all three on one model. The CDI agent pulls actuals nightly, unattended. The Personnel Module carries positions, wage bands, benefits, and payroll tax by state. Consolidation, intercompany eliminations, and the board packet run automatically. Live actuals from GP, NAV, Sage 100, SYSPRO, and Elite via the CDI agent; from Intacct, Business Central, and NetSuite via the cloud API.
Three real objections a Controller on a legacy GL will raise.
Cloud-native promise?
“Cloud-native FP&A tools say they integrate too. Why are you different?”
Ask any cloud-native FP&A vendor which of their existing customers is running your specific GL today. If they name one, verify it. If they cannot, the demo you saw was a pre-loaded CSV in a QuickBooks Online sandbox. The four honest tiers above are the map every buyer should be scoring vendors against.
IT will not allow?
“Our IT team will not let a Windows service touch our GL server.”
CDI installs with a read-only SQL user and a scheduled task. Ports do not need to open outbound. Setup is a one-time IT touch: SQL user + Task Scheduler entry + service install. After that, no IT involvement. Documented, versioned, and reviewed by IT admins at every reference customer.
Migration ahead?
“We are going to migrate off this GL in 18 months. Why buy now?”
Because the FP&A model earns its keep on today's close cycle, and it re-points when the GL changes. Rebuilding the FP&A layer inside a workbook chain glued to your current GL is the cost that shows up 90 days into the migration. Centage removes that cost from the migration entirely.
Frequently asked questions
FP&A integration, migration continuity, and pricing for legacy and on-prem GLs. What Controllers and VPs of Finance on GP, Sage 100, Blackbaud FE NXT, MIP, SYSPRO, and QuickBooks Desktop ask before a demo.
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