• Benchmark your project and get new ideas from over 360 peer organizations that took part in this year’s BPM Pulse survey on budgeting, planning, reporting, consolidation, cloud, and mobile performance management. This document contains the complete raw survey results.
• Author: BPM Partners
• Date: July 2019
• Pages: 80
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Executive Summary:

The 2019 BPM Pulse survey was conducted during April/May 2019 and received over 360 valid responses. Only input from verifiable end user organizations was accepted.

The demographic breakdown:

• Largest group of respondents came from North America (86%)
• While many industries were represented the largest groups (7% – 16%) came from manufacturing, financial services, professional services, healthcare, higher education, software, and not for profit
• Company size – 9% small, 62% midmarket, 29% large/enterprise
• Respondents came from IT, operations, executive management, but the largest group (79%) came from Finance
• Both technology (cloud, mobile, AI, software vendor preference, role of Excel) as well as business topics (forecasting methodology,  profitability optimization requirements, operational analytics focus, budgeting and reporting priorities, etc.) are covered.

Sponsored by OneStream Software

• Discover how to easily go beyond Finance with extended solutions for operations
• Author: BPM Partners
• Date: October 2017
• Pages: 13
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Executive Summary:

Business performance management (BPM, also known as CPM or EPM) has established its place and importance in most corporate Finance departments. BPM applications are very effective at automating routine budgeting, planning, and forecasting tasks, as well as consolidation and reporting. This is the core of BPM, but it is just the beginning of the use cases for performance management in the enterprise. Businesses need measurement, analysis and insight, in a wide range of management tasks, and many users outside Finance are ready to put BPM to work in their jobs. Often, this requires extending or modifying the functionality, models, or analytics to fit a department or business unit.

Sponsored by Jedox

Read about the next generation of budgeting and planning solutions with greater ease of use, customization, accessibility, and breadth.

• Author: BPM Partners
• Date: April 2017
• Pages: 12
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Executive Summary:

Business needs have evolved beyond just budgeting and planning for Finance,  and older solutions are not able to keep up. More modern solutions that extend beyond the core capabilities are now available. They address the expanded BPM requirements of today’s CFO and Finance team, and the need for analysis and insight across lines of business (LOBs). We call this category of solutions “performance management plus”, or PM+.

Sponsored by Vena Solutions

Learn how to cut through the forest of consolidation spreadsheets with ‘Enterprise Excel’.

• Author: BPM Partners
• Date: June 2016
• Pages: 12
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Executive Summary:

Many companies have yet to consider – and indeed, may not even be aware of – financial consolidation solutions to replace the highly tailored stand-alone spreadsheets that currently drive their month-end close process. With Excel entrenched as the lingua franca of finance and accounting worldwide, Finance departments at such companies tend to tolerate a mostly manual approach to consolidations. They struggle through the quarterly and year-end close and reporting cycles, often with a forest of linked spreadsheets. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Sponsored by Host Analytics

Learn how to address the many challenges of an under-powered or overly rigid financial consolidation system with a modern solution.

• Author: BPM Partners
• Date: March 2016
• Pages: 7
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Executive Summary:

All companies know they require planning and forecasting software to replace spreadsheets, but many do not think they need a financial consolidation solution. If they require just minimal or no currency conversion, or have only one general ledger, they often tolerate the struggle to get through quarterly and year-end close and reporting manually. As other processes in Finance are improved, though, the difficulties in the financial close stand out more.