Connect Planful and
SQL Server with AI

Automate the flow of financial data between your planning platform and enterprise database. Stop exporting actuals, reconciling budget-to-actual variances manually, and rebuilding reports every month—let Redbird sync your financial data stack in real time.

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 ERP actuals from SQL Server into Planful budget models automatically

Pull actual financial results from your ERP database tables in SQL Server and load them directly into Planful for variance analysis. Redbird maps GL accounts, cost centers, and entities automatically, eliminating manual imports and version control headaches.

Push finalized budgets and forecasts from Planful to SQL Server data warehouse

Export approved budget versions, rolling forecasts, and scenario models from Planful into SQL Server tables for enterprise-wide access. Finance, analytics, and BI teams work from a single source of truth without manual CSV exports.

Archive historical Planful versions to SQL Server for audit and compliance

Automatically capture locked budget versions, board submissions, and planning snapshots from Planful and store them in SQL Server with full lineage tracking. Maintain complete audit trails without cluttering your active planning environment.

Enrich Planful workforce plans with headcount actuals from HRIS in SQL Server

Merge actual employee data—salary, department, hire dates—from your HRIS tables in SQL Server into Planful workforce planning modules. Keep headcount assumptions aligned with reality as new hires, terminations, and org changes occur.

Alert finance teams when SQL Server actuals exceed Planful budget thresholds

Monitor variance between actual spend in SQL Server and approved budgets in Planful. Trigger notifications when departments exceed their allocations or when revenue falls short of forecast, enabling proactive budget management.

Automate consolidation workflows by syncing multi-entity data from SQL Server to Planful

Pull entity-level financials from distributed SQL Server instances—each subsidiary's local database—and consolidate them automatically in Planful. Handle intercompany eliminations and currency conversions without spreadsheet gymnastics.

Live in four steps

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

01

Connect your accounts

Authorize Planful and SQL Server 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 Planful's dimensional planning structures and SQL Server's relational schemas—so you can automate financial data flows without writing stored procedures or managing API mappings.

AI that reads Planful hierarchies and SQL Server schemas

Redbird automatically maps Planful dimensions—accounts, entities, departments, scenarios, versions—to SQL Server table structures and foreign key relationships. It interprets your GL account hierarchies, cost center roll-ups, and entity consolidation rules, then translates them into the right SQL queries and Planful cube loads. When actuals tables change or you add planning dimensions, Redbird adapts the mappings without manual reconfiguration.

Dimension mapping
Account hierarchy sync
Multi-entity consolidation
Version control
10×

faster budget-to-actual reconciliation vs SQL exports and manual Planful imports

No stored procedures, SSIS packages, or monthly import scripts

Auto-generated reports

Redbird can pull from Planful and SQL Server 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 Planful or SQL Server.

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 Planful into SQL Server, or from SQL Server back into Planful. 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 automations from any financial event in Planful or data change in SQL Server—no custom code required.

Planful
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

Budget version locked

Fires when a planning version is locked for reporting in Planful.

Trigger

Forecast submitted for approval

Triggers when a rolling forecast or reforecast is submitted through workflow.

Trigger

Variance threshold exceeded

Activates when actual-to-budget variance crosses configured limits in Planful reports.

Action

Load actuals into cube

Import financial data into Planful cubes with proper dimension mappings.

Action

Update scenario assumptions

Modify driver values or planning assumptions in specific Planful scenarios.

Action

Create consolidation journal entry

Post eliminations or adjustments to Planful consolidation workflows.

SQL Server
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

GL table updated

Fires when new transactions are posted to general ledger tables in SQL Server.

Trigger

Month-end close completed

Triggers when stored procedures mark accounting periods as closed in SQL Server.

Trigger

Dimension table modified

Activates when cost centers, departments, or account structures change in SQL Server.

Action

Insert budget rows

Write approved Planful budget data to SQL Server staging or warehouse tables.

Action

Execute stored procedure

Run SQL Server stored procs for calculations, transformations, or data validation.

Action

Update dimension metadata

Sync Planful dimension changes back to SQL Server reference tables.

Planful
+
SQL Server

Ready to connect your stack?

See how Redbird connects Planful and SQL Server in minutes—not sprints. Automate your financial data flows and let your finance team focus on analysis instead of reconciliation.

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