• Benchmark your project and get new ideas from over 300 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: June 2018
• Pages: 80
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Executive Summary:

The 2018 BPM Pulse survey was conducted during May 2018 and received over 330 valid responses. Only input from verifiable end user organizations was accepted.

The demographic breakdown:

• Largest group of respondents came from North America (83%)
• While many industries were represented the largest groups (7% – 19%) came from manufacturing, financial services, professional services, healthcare, higher education, and not for profit
• Company size – 8% small, 59% midmarket, 33% large/enterprise
• Respondents came from IT, operations, executive management, but the largest group (76%) came from Finance
• Both technology (cloud, mobile, AI, software vendor preference, role of Excel) as well as business topics (reforecast frequency,  profitability optimization requirements, operational analytics focus, budgeting and reporting priorities, etc.) are covered.

Sponsored by Host Analytics

• While many companies use workarounds, learn how to benefit from robust consolidation capabilities during the budgeting and planning processes
• Author: BPM Partners
• Date: July 2017
• Pages: 10
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Executive Summary:

Financial consolidation functionality can play a key role in making corporate budgets more accurate, faster, and easier to create. If consolidation capabilities such as intercompany eliminations and alternate rollups are not available in their budgeting and planning solution, companies usually resort to work-around methods or make do with rudimentary capabilities that can be tedious and promote errors. In such instances, it can be difficult to create an accurate corporate budget that supports the organization’s structure and its reporting requirements in different jurisdictions.

Sponsored by Prophix

Understand functionality, vendor capability, security, and cost before locking into a deployment approach.

• Author: BPM Partners
• Date: January 2017
• Pages: 13
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Executive Summary:

The progression toward cloud-based solutions in enterprise applications is seen in almost every software category. More vendors of business performance management (BPM or CPM, for corporate performance management) software offer a choice, and every company should compare its architecture options before locking in the final decision. Users have choices in performance management software. Functionality and vendor capability to deliver the needed capabilities should be the top two criteria.

Sponsored by Vena Solutions

Learn how ‘Enterprise Excel’ combines workflow and a centralized database for controlled planning and analytics in operational departments.

• Author: BPM Partners
• Date: April 2016
• Pages: 10
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Executive Summary:

The use of corporate performance management (CPM) based on ‘Enterprise Excel’ can bring the benefits of CPM – including controlled planning and modeling, analytics, and workflow automation – to operational areas across and beyond the Finance department.

Sponsored by Centage

• Warning signs that indicate it’s time to make the move, and steps to minimize the costs and time frame required to implement.
• Author: BPM Partners
• Date: August 2013
• Pages: 12
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Executive Summary:

When and how should an organization with revenues up to $250 million make its move from budgeting and forecasting that are based exclusively on spreadsheets, to a packaged application? How can the SME significantly lower its TCO (total cost of ownership) for a business performance management (BPM) solution? A valid starting point is to establish which processes urgently need automation and how dominant a factor implementation time will be in your system selection process. For some companies, especially those with very small IT departments, the amount of pre-configuration and built-in logic or financial intelligence are important; in other words, how ready the application is right out of the box.