Replace Cosmos for Financial Reports
Compare consolidation capabilities, Excel® integration, scalability and cost of report management — then consider Vivid Reports as your Cosmos alternative. Keep Excel front-and-center while you gain budgeting and deepen financial reporting functionality.
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Outcomes at a glance
Multi-ERP & Beyond BC
Connect to over 60 ERPs before or after your transition to BC. Vivid is multi-ERP.
Zero Report Rebuilds
Whether you have converted to Cosmos or not, reports never need to be entirely rebuilt in Vivid —Vivid-ize—and keep your current format.
Get Budgeting and Dynamic Forecasting
Extend from reporting into budgeting, forecasting, and analysis — all in Excel.
Scale Entities, Currencies and Reporting Tree Complexity
Vivid is multi-entity, multi-currency and brings cross ERP integration all with blazing refresh speeds.
Get "True Excel"
Vivid delivers true Excel — fully formatted, interactive, and native. Not a static export or image, but real spreadsheets with your slicers, filters, and logic preserved.
Vivid: Financial reporting and budgeting with an industry leading level of Excel integration
Fast, familiar - no new interface, no rebuilding budgets from scratch
Build and Automate Budgets with Confidence
Make budgeting automation a simple extension of your financial reporting
Collaborate
Automating Collaboration
Dynamic and Agile Forecasting
Sophisticated functionality for demanding clients
Report definitions are centrally managed.
Change once - change everywhere.
Cosmos vs. Vivid Reports
Cosmos
Deployment
Multi-tenant cloud deployment serving Business Central
On Prem, hosted, and private cloud serving any of over 60 ERP solutions.
Maintenance
If the GL, dimensions or entity list changes, reports that reference them must be maintained – everything is hard-coded to a report.
Change once change everywhere: Adding a new location or division to the reporting tree immediately rolls-out across all reports.
Simplicity of use
Report creation is done in the cloud and requires understanding Cosmos functions – Sum, lookup, balance, nested if statements, and conditional columns.
Report building is right in Excel – no proprietary reporting language.
Implementation
Every report the client is using needs to be rebuilt in Cosmos using one cell formula for each piece of information added to the report. Some formula can be 1500 characters long.
Clients keep their existing Excel reports, adding automation to the existing formats and leveraging the clients embedded business understanding.
Budgeting and Forecasting
Not available
Rich budgeting and forecasting functionality can be added at any future point.
Scalability
Unknown. Significant change means report formula must be rebuilt – potential to become brittle in a dynamic/changing environment. Cannot go beyond Dynamics Business Central.
Vivid scales effortlessly across ERPs, changes to divisional structures, new entities or offices, and currencies.
Templates
Advertises 30 pre-built report templates for
Doesn’t use templates. We believe it is faster to Vivid-ize an existing report the client already uses than to customize templates.
Speed
Unknown. Advertises it’s quick.
Optimized for financial performance. A report with ~4,000 cells of data might refresh right into Excel in about 2 seconds.
How do I convert to Vivid?
Assess
Share reports and structures; let’s isolate the few things we need to focus on fixing. We’re candid about our ability to be successful, and will back that with a free POC to demonstrate it will work. Typically, clients are up with a proven pathway to success within weeks.
Convert
Convert your existing Excel reports rather than replacing them. Each report you build will make it faster to build the next one. Move incrementally from building your month end package to building extremely sophisticated dynamic reports or FP&A product analysis to moving into budgeting and forecasting.
Enable
Short training; finance owns and manages report definitions. Roll-out user self service so managers can refresh, drill, and get their own answers.
Great Software Isn’t Enough — You Need a Team That Has Your Back
Vivid’s Support Stands Out — and the Data Proves It.
There’s a simple way to measure what it feels like to work with a vendor, in every interaction, ask yourself: was it easy to get my issue handled?
That’s what the Customer Effort Score (CES) asks. It’s a tougher test than satisfaction survey because it penalizes friction anywhere in the process—waiting, repeating, or being passed around. Vivid scores 6.97 out of 7—well above benchmarks. In plain terms, customers tell us: every interaction feels easy.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Vivid uses centrally stored definitions; you simply place definitions onto the Excel surface.
When converting from Cosmos, we start with the spreadsheet you are already using, you add the definitions, simplify the report, and Vivid refreshes the report automatically.
Initial wins in weeks; By this we mean – in a few days or weeks, you will know with absolute certainty that Vivid reports are correctly generating the right financial numbers and that changes or corrections are easily cascading across all work you’ve done previously
A full timelines varies by company because a company could have hundreds of reports. With Vivid, implementation is rapid iterations of report building. Once done, reports require minimal maintenance.
Yes. Vivid connects to 60+ ERPs and runs in Excel as the design surface.
Yes—drilldown is options are: to account, transaction, transaction detail, invoice (when the client has AP automation). Drill also to variance, variance impact, and trend over time.
Yes, Vivid uses a similar Excel-based model. Vivid has bi-directional write-back from Excel for manager input, automated template distribution and consolidation, unlimited budgets and scenarios, can lock input to manage iterations, provides input auditing, notes and assumptions capture, and FP&A teams can budget at whatever level of granularity chosen while selecting from multiple budgeting techniques (such as account-based, project based, function-based, driver-based or zero-based budgeting).