How a Complete CPM Solution Boosts Enterprise Resilience

Sponsored by Anaplan

  • This white paper describes how an end-to-end CPM solution boosts enterprise resilience and fuels finance leadership, especially under volatile conditions.
  • Author: BPM Partners
  • Date: December 2025
  • Pages: 17
  • End-user organizations request your copy today by completing the White Papers Request form.

Executive Summary:

Enterprise finance has to contend with not only familiar business cycles and periods, but also disruptive circumstances that are marked by uncertainty. The latter conditions may be outside the experience of many managers and executives. Expected by organizational leadership to skillfully navigate these challenges, finance groups need assurance that their systems are up to the task.
To support analysis and decision-making in these complex situations, a complete CPM solution is more effective than a partial solution with limited and siloed functionality.

When a CPM solution covers the full spectrum of business performance management processes—from budgeting, planning and forecasting to consolidation, reporting, and analysis—within a unified platform, it can be described as an end-to-end or complete solution.

 

Podcast: The Future of Consolidation

The CFO Show, Sponsored by Vena

Beyond the Close: How Financial Consolidation Creates Strategic Advantage

  • On this episode of The CFO Show we discuss why financial consolidation is essential to performance management, and how the options and customer interest have evolved over time.
  • If you’ve been wondering why more and more vendors are adding financial consolidation to their performance management suites this episode will provide some insight.
  • Speakers: Melissa Howatson, CFO, Vena; Craig Schiff, CEO and Lead Analyst, BPM Partners
  • Released: December 16, 2025
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  • Bonus Content: What is the hallmark of a mature finance team?

On this episode, we unpack:

  • Why consolidation and planning belong together
  • How AI is reshaping FP&A and controllership
  • The shift from legacy tools to unified performance management
  • What modern close and consolidation software must deliver