Connect Azure SQL and
Planful with AI

Automate the flow of actuals from your enterprise databases into financial planning workflows. Stop exporting transaction data to CSV, manually mapping GL accounts, and reconciling mismatched periods between operational systems and finance tools.

No code required
Live in minutes
SOC 2 Type II

What you can automate today

Redbird gives your team ready-to-run workflows — just connect your accounts and go.

Sync daily actuals from Azure SQL to Planful for continuous variance analysis

Automatically pull revenue, expense, and operational metrics from Azure SQL tables and load them into Planful actuals cubes. Redbird maps your chart of accounts, handles period alignment, and flags data quality issues before they reach finance.

Push approved budgets and forecasts from Planful back to operational databases

Write finalized budget targets and departmental forecasts from Planful into Azure SQL tables that power dashboards, BI tools, and operational applications. Keep engineering and product teams aligned with the same financial targets finance is tracking.

Generate monthly variance reports combining Azure SQL actuals and Planful budgets

Automatically join actual transaction data from Azure SQL with budget and forecast versions in Planful. Produce variance analysis reports with drill-down capability by department, cost center, or project — no manual VLOOKUP or pivot tables required.

Alert finance when Azure SQL actuals exceed Planful budget thresholds by entity

Monitor spending patterns in real-time operational data and trigger notifications when departments or entities are tracking over budget. Finance teams get early warning before month-end close, with context pulled directly from both systems.

Consolidate multi-entity actuals from Azure SQL into Planful consolidation structures

Aggregate transactional data across regional databases, subsidiaries, or business units in Azure SQL and map them to Planful's entity hierarchy and elimination rules. Automate intercompany reconciliation and prepare data for consolidated financial reporting.

Archive historical Planful scenario versions to Azure SQL for audit and compliance

Automatically export completed planning cycles, board-approved forecasts, and scenario models from Planful into timestamped tables in Azure SQL. Maintain a queryable audit trail of all financial planning decisions with full version history.

Live in four steps

No engineers, no pipelines to maintain. Redbird handles the connectivity — you focus on the outcome.

01

Connect your accounts

Authorize Azure SQL and Planful with OAuth or API credentials. Redbird never stores your data — it just passes through.

02

Describe what you want

Tell Redbird what to do in plain language — no SQL, no code, no configuration files required.

03

Review and activate

Redbird shows you exactly what it will do before running anything. Approve the workflow, set a schedule, and switch it on.

04

Let it run — and iterate

Workflows run on your schedule or on triggers. Every run is logged. Adjust with natural language at any time.

Built for data-driven teams

Redbird understands both Azure SQL schemas and Planful's dimensional structures — connecting transactional data with financial planning hierarchies without custom code.

AI that speaks SQL and financial dimensions

Redbird reads your Azure SQL table structures — transaction tables, GL schemas, cost center dimensions — and maps them to Planful's cube structures, account hierarchies, and entity rollups. It handles common FP&A challenges like period misalignment, currency conversion requirements, and multi-entity consolidation logic automatically. When your chart of accounts changes or Planful dimensions are restructured, Redbird detects schema drift and adapts mappings without breaking workflows.

Azure SQL table & view schemas
Planful cube dimensions & hierarchies
GL account mapping & rollups
Period & entity alignment
10×

faster than building ETL pipelines and manual actuals uploads

No SSIS packages, stored procedures for export, or month-end CSV formatting required

Auto-generated reports

Redbird can pull from Azure SQL and Planful simultaneously, merge the results, and format a polished report — sent on a schedule or on demand.

Trigger-based alerts

Set conditions in natural language. Get notified in Slack or email the moment a threshold is crossed in either Azure SQL or Planful.

Enterprise-grade security

SOC 2 Type II certified. Data flows encrypted in transit and at rest. Fine-grained permission controls with full audit logs.

Bidirectional sync

Push data from Azure SQL into Planful, or from Planful back into Azure SQL. Resolve conflicts with configurable merge rules.

Full audit trail

Every workflow run is logged — what ran, what changed, and why. Replay or revert any individual step at any time.

Triggers & actions for every team

Start workflows from any database event in Azure SQL or planning activity in Planful — Redbird handles the orchestration.

Azure SQL
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

New rows inserted in actuals table

Trigger when transaction data is added to GL or operational tables.

Trigger

Monthly close procedure completes

Detect when stored procedures finalize period-end calculations.

Trigger

Budget threshold exceeded in transaction data

Monitor when cumulative actuals cross predefined spending limits.

Action

Query aggregated actuals by dimension

Run SQL queries to pull summarized data by cost center, department, or entity.

Action

Write budget targets to reference tables

Insert or update budget data from Planful into Azure SQL lookup tables.

Action

Archive transaction snapshots to history tables

Create point-in-time backups of financial data for audit trails.

Planful
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

Budget or forecast version submitted

Trigger when a planning cycle moves to approved or locked status.

Trigger

Actuals loaded into Planful cube

Detect when finance teams manually import or refresh actuals data.

Trigger

Variance threshold breached in report

Monitor when budget-to-actual variance exceeds tolerance in any dimension.

Action

Load actuals into Planful data cube

Write transaction-level or summarized actuals from Azure SQL into planning cubes.

Action

Update account mappings and hierarchies

Sync chart of accounts changes or entity structure updates from source systems.

Action

Export scenario models to external systems

Push approved budgets, forecasts, or what-if scenarios out of Planful.

Azure SQL
+
Planful

Ready to connect your stack?

See how Redbird automates the flow between Azure SQL and Planful — turning manual actuals uploads and variance reconciliation into continuous, reliable data pipelines that keep finance and operations aligned.

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