BPM Partners Best Content of 2025
Craig Schiff , President and CEO, BPM Partners
Overview
As we prepare our 2026 research, buyers guides, webcasts, and whitepapers, we wanted to make it easier for you to find all of our existing 2025 content. This blog entry brings together the best of our content from the past year. If you are looking to get caught up on the latest in BPM/CPM/EPM, AI, FP&A, Financial Consolidation and Reporting this is a great place to start.
AI
AI Evolution in Finance Drives a Productivity Revolution: This white paper looks at the evolution of AI in CPM and the benefits to Finance at each stage. Agentic AI has the potential to greatly enhance productivity and this report will examine this as well as the ROI implications. Request whitepaper
AI in CPM Interview with theCube + NYSE WIRED: In this interview from the New York Stock Exchange, Craig Schiff joins theCUBE’s John Furrier for the Mixture of Experts series and discusses why the hype surrounding the shift toward agentic AI is legitimate, emphasizing that successful implementation starts with a robust data foundation. The conversation highlights how performance management vendors are now embedding AI directly into their platforms, removing the need for complex third-party integrations and allowing finance teams to bypass the heavy lifting often associated with data science. This sets the stage for the new era of autonomous finance. Watch the interview
FP&A/Finance
Buyers Guide for Budgeting and Planning Solutions: This is not an analyst report, but a consumer-oriented guide that leverages data from our annual BPM Pulse Research Study and Vendor Landscape Matrix report. It is the most comprehensive Buyers Guide for Budgeting and Planning Solutions available today with detailed sections on requirements, vendors, and the evaluation process. Information on 24 vendors, with detailed ratings for 16. Download
Equipping Your Finance Team to Lead Strategically: The pressures of market volatility, regulatory changes, and geopolitical disruptions demand more than just resilience. They call for strategic leadership guided by data-driven decisions delivered through unified solutions that streamline planning, closing, and reporting. Request whitepaper, Watch webcast
How CPM Modernizes Finance for Banking and Financial Services: To continue success and growth, FSI entities need maximum efficiency and accuracy from their finance team. Yet many FSI entities are hindered by fragmented financial data, disconnected systems, and manual processes. This white paper examines how modern CPM solutions can address these challenges for finance teams in banks. Request whitepaper
How a Complete CPM Solution Boosts Enterprise Resilience: This white paper describes how an end-to-end CPM solution boosts enterprise resilience and fuels finance leadership, especially under volatile conditions. Request whitepaper
Forecast Methodologies and Technologies – Latest Trends and AI: During this webcast you’ll learn how your forecasting approach compares to peer organizations, understand how AI is shaping forecasting accuracy and adoption, and key factors to consider when selecting a new forecasting tool. Watch webcast
How to Navigate CPM Market Dynamics: Learn how data-driven strategies are transforming budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and decision-making. This session will unpack the key trends shaping CPM adoption and priorities, giving you the knowledge to enhance your organization’s performance and stay ahead in a competitive landscape. Watch webcast
The Hallmarks of a Modern, Mature Finance Team: What separates good finance teams from great ones? In this special episode of The CFO Show, host Melissa Howatson brings together insights from more than 20 finance leaders to answer one deceptively simple question: What is the hallmark of a mature finance team? Watch podcast
Financial Consolidation
Buyers Guide for Financial Consolidation, Close, and Reporting Solutions: Just like the Budgeting and Planning Guide, this is a consumer-oriented guide that leverages data from our annual BPM Pulse Research Study and Vendor Landscape Matrix report. It is the most comprehensive Buyers Guide for Financial Consolidation, Close, and Reporting Solutions available today with detailed sections on requirements, vendors, and the evaluation process. Information on 13 vendors, with detailed ratings for 10. Download
7 Things They Never Told You About Financial Consolidation: This white paper and webcast looks at some things you might not have been told about financial consolidation solutions. Awareness of these seven key factors will build your perspective, understanding and confidence when it comes to selecting the best CPM consolidation solution for your organization. Request whitepaper, Watch webcast
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. Watch podcast
Research
The State of Strategic Finance – Finance Teams Grow Up, Glow Up, and Warm Up to AI: Get insight into finance teams’ key challenges and priorities across several topics such as navigating the economy, people management, organizational processes and technology. Download, Watch podcast
The Pulse of Performance Management: AI + BI + CPM: This is the 22nd edition of our annual web event designed to quickly get you and your team up to speed on everything important happening in budgeting, financial planning, forecasting, operational planning, consolidation and close, financial and operational reporting, ESG planning and reporting, AI, and analytics. Watch webcast
Vendor Landscape Matrix 2025-2026 Edition: This 70-page analyst report covers budgeting, financial and operational planning, forecasting, consolidation and close, financial reporting, performance dashboards, analytics and AI, in a single document. Detailed coverage of 17 vendors. Order report
Vendor Snapshots 2025-2026 Edition: Before you invest your valuable time and resources in evaluating (or purchasing) a particular vendor’s products, make sure you have all the facts. Validate your vendors with unbiased facts from their customers and our analysts. Vendor Snapshots contain data from our Vendor Landscape Matrix for two vendors of your choosing. Request snapshots
BARC/BPM Partners Global CPM Trend Monitor 2026: Research, analysis, and recommendations from two of the leading analysts in the CPM space. What are the hottest performance management trends for 2026? How have they evolved over time? What are the implications for your projects? Compare your thoughts with the results of our latest survey and learn what almost 1,000 CPM practitioners think. Learn which CPM trends are making waves in the market. See how best-in-class companies differ from the rest. Get infographic/Request report, Watch webcast
That’s all for now. We’ll be back soon with new content.
