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
BPM Partners First Look: Pigment
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BPM Partners Pigment a Leader in 2026-2027 Vendor Landscape Matrix $
BPM Partners Pigment 2025-2026 Vendor Landscape Matrix: Special Edition R
Forrester Total Economic Impact: Pigment R
Gartner 2024 Market Guide for Extended Planning and Analysis Solutions R
Gartner Pigment a Visionary in 2025 Financial Planning Solutions Magic Quadrant 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, JustPerform 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
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Intelligent Planning. Plan Smarter, Drive Outcomes, Lead Transformation.
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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, JustPerform from insightsoftware, OneStream, Pigment, Wolters Kluwer (CCH Tagetik)
INDUSTRY SUCCESS
Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Professional Services, Restaurant Services, Retail
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FP&A for Midmarket Service-based Organizations
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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, Jedox, Vena or other vendors >>>
INDUSTRY SUCCESS
Energy, Government, Higher Education, Not for Profit, Professional Services, Utilities
SELECTED CLIENTS
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Industry View
BARC 2023 Planning Survey
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BPM Partners 2026-2027 Vendor Landscape Matrix $
Dresner Advisory 2021 Wisdom of Crowds Consolidation Study R
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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
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The Financial Performance Management Solution for Collaborative SMEs
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OVERVIEW
XLerant’s BudgetPak is an easy to use cloud-based solution focused on collaborative budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting. An Excel add-in, myXL, provides custom reporting capabilities with dynamic integration to the database. The full suite of modules built into the BudgetPak product includes annual and hourly salary planning with enhanced detailed benefits planning, scenario modeling, and long-term projections using predictive analytics. There is built-in support for the creation, distribution, and reporting on company-wide strategic initiatives at the department and account level. The product utilizes a unique guided prompt approach, coupled with an intuitive interface, to facilitate the budget preparation and submission process. See detailed ratings and compare to Prophix, Jedox, Una AI, or other vendors >>>
INDUSTRY SUCCESS
Business Services, Higher Education, Not for Profits
SELECTED CLIENTS
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Industry View
BPM Partners 2025 Vendor Snapshot for XLerant R
BPM Partners XLerant a Challenger in 2025-2026 Vendor Landscape Matrix $
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XLerant Rated Highest for Ease-of-Use for Sixth Consecutive Year in 2021 BPM Pulse
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Jobs at this Vendor
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 $
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Nucleus Research Vena a Leader in 2025 CPM Value Matrix
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Financial Performance Platform for the Midmarket
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BPM Pulse 2026
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OVERVIEW
Prophix One™ is the Autonomous Finance Platform built for the Office of the CFO in growing, complex midmarket organizations. It brings together best-of-breed capabilities for Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Financial Close & Consolidation, Accounting & Compliance, and Reporting & Analytics in a single, integrated platform that supports connected financial and operational planning. Prophix One FP&A Plus handles the greater complexity and granularity needed for operational planning and Prophix One Intelligence is an advanced AI engine natively integrated into the Prophix One Platform. See detailed ratings and compare to Planful, Vena or other vendors >>>
INDUSTRY SUCCESS
Healthcare, Higher Education, Manufacturing, , Not for Profit, Professional Services, Retail
SELECTED CLIENTS
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Transforming the office of the CFO by accelerating planning, consolidation, tax and analytics.
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OVERVIEW
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 >>>
INDUSTRY SUCCESS
Banking/Financial Services/Insurance, Energy/Utilities, Healthcare, Higher Education, Logistics, Manufacturing, Retail
SELECTED CLIENTS
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Industry View
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Jobs at this Vendor
Connected Planning and Reporting Platform
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BPM Pulse 2026
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OVERVIEW
The Jedox EPM planning and performance management platform delivers connected and adaptable planning. It unifies cross- departmental performance management with solutions for Integrated Financial Planning, Financial Close and Consolidation, Revenue Planning & Forecasting, Sales and Operations Planning, Lead and Pipeline Management, Supply and Demand Planning. HR/Workforce Planning, and ESG Reporting. Intelligent Automation reduces manual efforts through structured workflow, scalable data harmonization, and JedoxAI. See detailed ratings and compare to Anaplan, Pigment, Vena or other vendors >>>
INDUSTRY SUCCESS
Banking, Education, Energy, Government, Manufacturing, Services
SELECTED CLIENTS
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Industry View
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