AI-Powered Company-Wide Planning
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BPM Pulse 2026
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OVERVIEW
The Pigment integrated business planning platform is modeling-centric and can support most financial and operational planning requirements. It combines the flexibility of a fully customizable platform with use-case specific solutions that are based on best practices and include their own organization charts, templates, and reports. With a focus on Finance, Sales, and HR current solutions include revenue planning, one-click what-if scenario planning, workforce planning with organization chart visualization, sales capacity, territory and quota planning, supply chain planning, and carbon accounting. The guiding vision is to make the planning and reporting process intuitive, integrated, and adaptable. See detailed ratings and compare to Planful, Anaplan or other vendors >>>
INDUSTRY SUCCESS
Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail, Wholesale
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Industry View
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Gartner 2024 Market Guide for Extended Planning and Analysis Solutions R
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Platform for Financial Performance Management
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OVERVIEW
The Planful Platform is a unified solution for Financial Performance Management, combining purpose-built applications with embedded AI to help finance, accounting, and business teams collaborate, automate, and accelerate planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and analytics. The Budget Manager Experience provides a role-based interface for users outside of Finance to easily access just the information they need. A Power BI connector provides live access to Planful data and a native Snowflake connector syncs Planful data in real-time. A suite of persona-based assistants for Planful AI, including Analyst, Planner, and Controller automate key tasks. Recommended Alternatives: Jedox, Lineos from insightsoftware, OneStream, Pigment, Prophix, Vena, Wolters Kluwer (CCH Tagetik)
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INDUSTRY SUCCESS
Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Technology
SELECTED CLIENTS
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Industry View
BARC Score Financial Performance Management R
BPM Partners 2025 Vendor Snapshot for Planful R
BPM Partners Planful a Leader in 2025-2026 Vendor Landscape Matrix $
Constellation Research 2024 ShortList Cloud-Based Planning Platforms
Dresner Advisory 2025 Wisdom of Crowds EPM Study R
Gartner Planful a Challenger in 2026 Financial Close and Consolidation Solutions Magic Quadrant R
Nucleus Research Planful a Leader in 2022 CPM Value Matrix
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Intelligent Planning. Plan Smarter, Drive Outcomes, Lead Transformation.
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OVERVIEW
Board’s Intelligent Planning platform is designed to enable companies to manage and control their entire planning process from goal setting down to operational execution in one intuitive, flexible, and scalable environment. The solution combines budgeting, planning, predictive forecasting, simulation, reporting, analysis, and consolidation and close capabilities. Board has an Office of Finance focus, with added value capabilities in the areas of supply chain and retail. The overall goal is to enable organizations to discover actionable insights that will help drive better business decisions. Recommended Alternatives: Anaplan, Jedox, Lineos from insightsoftware, OneStream, Pigment, Wolters Kluwer (CCH Tagetik)
INDUSTRY SUCCESS
Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Professional Services, Restaurant Services, Retail
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Latest News
Board Unveils AI Agents for the Office of Finance
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Board Launches New Group Consolidation and Reporting Solution
AI-Driven Scenario Planning, Analysis and Reporting Platform
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BPM Pulse 2026
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OVERVIEW
The Anaplan AI-driven scenario planning and analysis platform that serves as the decision infrastructure for the Agentic Enterprise delivers a unified and extensible solution for connected planning, uniquely aligning financial plans and targets to operational plans and models of execution for collaboration, consistency, accuracy, and optimized decision-making across the enterprise. Core solution areas include Finance encompassing planning and financial close and consolidation, Sales & Marketing focused on Go-to-Market planning, Supply Chain planning, and HR & Workforce planning. Examples of out-of-the-box applications include Integrated Financial Planning, Operational Workforce Planning, Territory & Quota, Demand Planning, and Merchandise Financial Planning. See detailed ratings and compare to OneStream, Oracle or other vendors >>>
INDUSTRY SUCCESS
Consumer Packaged Goods, Financial Services
SELECTED CLIENTS
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Industry View
BPM Partners 2026 Vendor Snapshot for Anaplan R
BPM Partners Anaplan a Leader in 2026-2027 Vendor Landscape Matrix $
BPM Partners Anaplan 2025-2026 Vendor Landscape Matrix: Special Edition R
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Gartner Anaplan a Challenger in 2026 Financial Close and Consolidation Solutions Magic Quadrant R
Gartner Anaplan a Leader in 2025 Financial Planning Solutions Magic Quadrant R
IDC Anaplan a Leader in 2026 Global Enterprise Planning MarketScape R
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Orchestrated Planning, Decisioning and Close
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BPM Pulse 2026
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OVERVIEW
The Vena Microsoft-native platform for Orchestrated Planning, Decisioning and Close, natively integrated and synchronized with Microsoft 365, is designed to streamline planning, decisioning, and close. Vena’s platform amplifies the value of Microsoft Excel and 365 productivity and analytical tools by combining them with the control and scale of its centralized in-memory Vena CubeFLEX™ database and collaborative workflows. Vena addresses the full spectrum of financial planning and forecasting, extended planning including revenue and sales planning, and goes beyond planning with financial consolidations and close, account reconciliations, tax provisioning, ESG management, and more. See detailed ratings and compare to Pigment, Jedox, Prophix or other vendors >>>
INDUSTRY SUCCESS
Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail, Services
SELECTED CLIENTS
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Industry View
BARC The Planning Survey 25 R
BPM Partners 2026 Vendor Snapshot for Vena R
BPM Partners Vena a Leader in 2026-2027 Vendor Landscape Matrix $
BPM Partners Vena 2026-2027 Vendor Landscape Matrix: Special Edition R
Nucleus Research Vena a Leader in 2025 CPM Value Matrix
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Elevating Performance.
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OVERVIEW
Syntellis, now part of Strata Decision Technology, delivers intelligent planning and performance solutions that help society’s foundational institutions guide decisions and identify new opportunities for financial and organizational success. Syntellis’ suite of products integrates operational and strategic data across industry-specific performance management solutions and uses data science to deliver real-time, actionable insights. Syntellis IQ is a data science engine that utilizes AI/ML to synthesize billions of data points to surface key insights in market and customer data so organizations can improve their financial position, operations, and strategic outcomes. Syntellis Performance Solutions’ Axiom Software delivers a unified platform that includes budgeting, forecasting, reporting, analytics, strategy management, consolidations, capital planning, profitability, and cost management. Axiom Software also provides tailored industry suites for healthcare, banks and credit unions, and higher education. See detailed ratings and compare to Anaplan, Oracle or other vendors >>>
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INDUSTRY SUCCESS
Financial Institutions, Healthcare, Higher Education, Manufacturing, Retail
SELECTED CLIENTS
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Industry View
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Latest News
Syntellis to Become Part of Strata Decision Technology
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Syntellis’ Axiom Comparative Analytics Ranks #1
Kaufman Hall Software Becomes Syntellis Performance Solutions
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