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Lumel brings Enterprise Performance Management to Power BI data models as a native app with Fabric. Lumel offers a full stack EPM suite consisting of Planning, Data apps, Data Management and Modern BI (Reporting, Exploration and Visualization). With pre-built components, Lumel enables rapid deployment of budgeting, forecasting, FP&A modeling, sales and operational planning, scenario management, and driver-based planning with fully integrated reporting, analytics, and data storytelling. By embedding connected planning directly into Power BI, Lumel accelerates planning workflows which shortens time-to-value. Lumel’s native integration with data platforms allows organizations to plan directly on top of their existing data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric, SAP HANA, and more) which eliminates the need for data duplication or new data marts. See detailed ratings and compare to Pigment, deFacto or other vendors >>>
Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, CPG, Mining, Services, Logistics
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JustPerform from insightsoftware delivers a unified platform with a process-first approach, intuitive user experience, and strong governance capabilities. It is designed to be an all-in-one financial performance companion and supports a range of use cases: Extended Planning and Analysis unites Finance, Sales, Supply Chain, HR and Marketing, Financial Close – streamlines the Close, Management Reporting, and Disclosure Management processes, Profitability Analysis – delivers granular analysis across products, projects, customers, and channels, and ESG Reporting – compliant and self-service reporting with ESG frameworks. See detailed ratings and compare to Anaplan, SAP, or other vendors >>>
Healthcare, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Shipping & Logistics, Real Estate, Telco, Transportation, Higher Education
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Equip Your Finance Team to Lead Strategically and Survive the Chaos R
Global CPM Trends and Priorities Report 2025 R
JustPerform – the Unified Planning, Financial Close and Reporting Platform S
How to Bring Speed, Accuracy, and Auditability to Consolidation S
Agile Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting with JustPerform S
9 Reasons to Move Away from Legacy EPM S
Understanding insightsoftware’s Acquisition of JustPerform
Key Factors to Consider Before Investing in Finance Technology
Overcoming Excel-based Consolidation Challenges
Tips to Upgrade from Excel to a Cloud Financial Close Solution
Tackling the Pitfalls of ERP-based Consolidation
4 Major Challenges in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
Bid Goodbye to These Practices for Agile Planning & Budgeting
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Limelight is a financial planning, analysis, and reporting platform that is designed for rapid deployment and management by business users. It is a cloud-based solution offering data integration, collaboration, real-time planning and reporting with Excel features to maximize productivity. The solution directly integrates with ERP systems to offer access to the latest and most accurate financial data. Automated features help accelerate FP&A processes allowing organizations to more quickly get the information they need for strategic decision-making.
Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Not for Profit, SaaS
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Unit4 FP&A is a flexible, no code/low code platform for planning and analytics designed to connect operations and strategy. It provides a full range of integrated performance management capabilities powered by AI for budgeting, planning (financial, sales, HR, project, risk), forecasting, profitability analysis, financial statutory consolidation, and reporting. Workforce Planning with analytics complements salary planning with an operational focus. Also included are self-service business intelligence capabilities for data visualization, dashboards, and predictive analytics. Reporting features are available that support storytelling as well as the consistent design approach of International Business Communications Standards. Direct integration is available with Unit4 ERP, ERPx, Unit4 Financials by CODA and Snowflake. Unit4 has a vertical focus on: Public Sector, Professional Services, Not-for-Profit, and Higher Education. See detailed ratings and compare to Prophix, Vena or other vendors >>>
Energy, Government, Higher Education, Not for Profit, Professional Services, Utilities
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BARC 2023 Planning Survey
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Dresner Advisory 2021 Wisdom of Crowds Consolidation Study R
Dresner Advisory 2023 Wisdom of Crowds EPM Study R
IDC Unit4 a Major Player in Marketscape for Cloud EPM 2020
Ventana Research Unit4 Democratizes Agile, Data-Driven, Decision-Making
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How to Navigate CPM Market Dynamics in 2025 R
How Evolving FP&A Trends Can Help You Navigate Through Uncertainty R
The Journey to FP&A Excellence R
How to Choose the Right FP&A Solution for Your Business
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The Anaplan AI-infused Scenario Planning, Analysis and Reporting Platform 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. Anaplan Intelligence delivers predictive AI capabilities through ‘Anaplan Optimizer,’ for linear programming and ‘Anaplan PlanIQ,’ its statistical time series forecasting solution. ‘Anaplan CoPlanner,’ is generative AI embedded into applications. See detailed ratings and compare to OneStream, Oracle or other vendors >>>
Consumer Packaged Goods, Financial Services
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BPM Partners Anaplan 2024-2025 Vendor Landscape Matrix: Special Edition R
Constellation Research 2025 ShortList Cloud-Based Planning Platforms
Forrester Total Economic Impact of Anaplan R
Forrester 2023 Wave for Sales Performance Management R
Gartner 2024 Market Guide for Extended Planning and Analysis Solutions R
Gartner Anaplan a Challenger in 2025 Financial Close and Consolidation Solutions Magic Quadrant R
Gartner Anaplan a Leader in 2024 Financial Planning Solutions Magic Quadrant R
IDC Anaplan a Cloud EPM Leader in 2020 MarketScape R
Nucleus Research 2024 CPM Technology Value Matrix R
2025 Pulse of Performance Management: Anaplan Reviewed as Core Vendor R
Anaplan Leads the Way in 2024 Vendor Landscape Matrix
How the Anaplan Acquisition of Fluence Will Change the CPM Market
Anaplan Introduces New Polaris Calculation Engine
Anaplan Launches PlanIQ with Amazon Forecast
Anaplan to Run on Google Cloud
Anaplan Reveals Extended AI Portfolio
Anaplan Achieves Significant Milestones
AI-Enabled Anaplan CoPlanner for Demand Planning Announced
Anaplan Outlines $500 Million Product Roadmap Investment
Anaplan Announces Agreement to Acquire Fluence Technologies
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The Vena AI-Powered Complete FP&A Platform, natively integrated and synchronized with Microsoft 365, is designed to streamline financial and operational planning. Vena’s platform amplifies the value of Microsoft Excel and 365 productivity and analytical tools by combining it 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, account reconciliations, tax provisioning, ESG management, and more. Vena Insights leverages Microsoft Power BI fully embedded and productized in the Vena platform and Vena Copilot is Vena’s Agentic AI technology purpose-built for FP&A use cases. See detailed ratings and compare to Workday Adaptive Planning, Planful or other vendors >>>
Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail, Services
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BARC The Planning Survey 24 R
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BPM Partners Vena 2023 Vendor Landscape Matrix: Special Edition R
Nucleus Research Vena a Leader in 2023 CPM Value Matrix
2025 Pulse of Performance Management: Vena Reviewed as Core Vendor R
CFO Show Podcast: The State of Strategic Finance 2025
Livestream: The Annual Financial Close R
Lessons from SaaS Leaders: Aligning Your Budget to Changing Business Goals R
How to Power Your Digital Finance Transformation R
Transforming Finance-Led Processes for Growth R
Rethinking FP&A: An Analyst’s View
Five Steps to Selecting Financial Software to Grow Your Business
Vena Announces Vena Copilot for Microsoft Teams
Vena’s 2025 Industry Benchmark Report Reveals What’s Next for FP&A Teams
Vena Kicks Off FY26 with Record Growth
Vena Recognized in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Close and Consolidation Solutions
Vena Achieves US$100 Million ARR
Vena Named Top Leader in 2024 BARC Planning Survey
Vena Introduces Vena for Microsoft PowerPoint
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OneStream’s unified, AI-powered, and extensible finance platform includes solutions for financial close and consolidation with account reconciliation, transaction matching, and tax, financial planning and analysis with strategic planning, rolling forecasts, and scenario modeling, and operational planning and analysis with demand forecasting, workforce planning, and ESG reporting and planning. The OneStream Solution Exchange offers downloadable solutions to expand capabilities in all of these areas. SensibleAI™ Portfolio built into the OneStream platform provides machine learning, GenAI, and agentic AI capabilities to OneStream solutions. OneStream Genesis enables no-code application development, CPM Express is a pre-built configurable application for rapid deployment. See detailed ratings and compare to Wolters Kluwer (CCH Tagetik), Oracle or other vendors >>>
Automotive Suppliers, Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Real Estate
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BARC The Planning Survey 24 R
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BPM Partners OneStream 2022 Vendor Landscape Matrix: Special Edition R
Gartner OneStream a Leader in 2025 Financial Close and Consolidation Solutions Magic Quadrant R
Gartner OneStream a Leader in 2024 Financial Planning Solutions Magic Quadrant R
Nucleus Research 2023 CPM Value Matrix R
How CPM Modernizes Finance for Banking and Financial Services R
Extending Performance Management for Company-Wide Benefits
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How CPM Modernizes Finance for Banking and Financial Services R
How the Events of 2020 are Impacting Planning and Analytics in 2021 and Beyond R
The FP&A Roadmap – How to Advance Your Planning and Forecasting
KKR-backed OneStream Surges in Market Debut
OneStream Files Confidentially for IPO
New Performance Management Leaders 2023
CFOs Say Economic Disruption is 2023’s Biggest Challenge
The Need for Financial Data Quality
The Performance Management Gold Rush
Selecting Performance Management Software with Your Head in the Clouds
OneStream Unveils Productivity Tools and Platform Enhancements
OneStream Unveils SensibleAI Agents and SensibleAI Studio
OneStream Announces Q1 2025 Results
OneStream Collaborates with Coupa for Business Spend Management
OneStream Launches Solution Exchange
OneStream Receives $200 Million Investment at $6 Billion Valuation
OneStream Adds Governed Analytics in Latest Release
OneStream Software to Receive Significant Investment from KKR
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insightsoftware delivers performance management solutions in three key areas: (1) Capital Management: Equity Management, (2) Controllership: Close/Consolidation, Tax Provisioning, Transfer Pricing, Disclosure Management, and (3) FP&A: Budgeting & Planning, Financial Reporting, Operational Reporting, Data Visualization. The insightsoftware product suite enables the Office of the CFO to be connected, proactive, and empowered. Current products include Tidemark, Longview Close, Longview Tax, Longview Transfer Pricing, Longview Analytics, and Bizview. See detailed ratings and compare to Wolters Kluwer (CCH Tagetik), Planful or other vendors >>>
Banking/Financial Services/Insurance, Energy/Utilities, Healthcare, Higher Education, Logistics, Manufacturing, Retail
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BARC Score Financial Performance Management 2021 R
BPM Partners Longview Acquired by insightsoftware
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The Performance Management Gold Rush
Avoid Common Financial Planning Mistakes for Manufacturers
Creating Your Month-End Close Process Flow Chart
How to Account for Seasonality Using Financial Planning Software
Longview Transforms the Office of the CFO Through Connected Finance
Logi Analytics Wins Dresner Advisory Award for Embedded BI
insightsoftware to Acquire Magnitude
insightsoftware Acquires CALUMO
insightsoftware Receives $1 Billion Investment from Hg
insightsoftware Acquires Certent – Adds Equity and Disclosure Management Capabilities
insightsoftware Acquires French Financial Software Provider Viareport
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IBM Planning Analytics is designed for integrated and extensible planning and offers a unified set of capabilities for budgeting, planning, forecasting, analysis and reporting for financial as well as operational data. The solution delivers AI-infused integrated business planning across the organization, putting the power of algorithmic forecasting in the hands of LOB users. In addition to a web UI, Planning Analytics supports a full-featured Excel interface and the ability to publish Excel reports and forms to the web. A catalog of accelerators from IBM and partners extends planning and analysis capabilities. Connectivity to IBM Watson Studio is available for advanced decision optimization. IBM Controller is a standalone consolidation solution that is integrated with IBM Planning Analytics. See detailed ratings and compare to Oracle, SAP or other vendors >>>
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Education, Financial Services, Government, Life Sciences
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Aberdeen The ROI of Sales Planning Analytics R
BARC IBM a Market Leader in 2022 Integrated Planning Report R
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Ventana Research 2022 Business Value Index: Product and Vendor Assessment R
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deFacto is a unified, AI-enabled Integrated Business Planning platform that enables mid-market to large enterprises to optimize overall business performance by synchronizing planning and decision-making across every functional area. The application library includes FP&A, HR, S&OP, Demand Planning, Tax, Supply Chain, CapEx, and Project Planning. deFacto extends full write-back and planning capabilities to Excel and Power BI. It automates the generation of Power BI reports and templates, leverages the full range of Microsoft tools including Azure, Fabric, and connects to any financial and/or operational data source. See detailed ratings and compare to JustPerform, Vena or other vendors >>>
Consumer Products, Financial Services, Healthcare, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Telecommunications
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