everything you think you know about enterprise performance management is wrong
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The era of CFOs as gatekeepers who primarily oversaw transactions is over. To grow aggressively, companies need a modern approach to business analytics. CFOs need real-time insight, context around data, and collaboration capabilities to take their business to the next level. Real time insight from big data and modern systems give CFOs the data they need to improve decisions, reduce risk and improve performance.TRANSCRIPT
April 12, 2023
Enterprise Performance Management
Everything you think you know is wrong
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Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions have definitely evolved through the ages.
Today you need new ways of looking at your business and modeling change − not the unkept promises of slow, expensive and unreliable legacy solutions.
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The Journey
Counting BeansThe traditional analytics offerings − big and bulky and still relevant for some analytics jobs but inflexible, slow and expensive
Year 2000
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The Journey
Excel HellAnalytics on 250 separate Excel documents. Risky, complex and understood by only a select few within an organization.
Year 2007
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The Journey
Collaborative and Mobile Business Planning
New business performance management offerings leverage the cloud on any device, involving people from across the business to drive a data-driven culture.
Today
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Why Legacy EPM Fails and Modern EPM Prevails
The era of CFOs as gatekeepers who primarily oversaw transactions is over. The dark days of information trapped in
systems only accessible by the few in finance are numbered.
To grow aggressively, companies need a modern approach to business analytics. They need applications that are cloud-based, mobile-
first and field ready.
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CFOs Who Don’t Embrace These Technologies will be Left Behind
They need real-time insight, context around data, and collaboration capabilities to take their business to the next level. According to Gartner [1], CFOs are
involved in 84% of all IT decisions.• Making the right technology decisions has
never been more important.
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Is your Finance Department ready for the future?
The cloud is the way smart business do business − and it’s here to stay. IDC [2] research predicts cloud
technology spending will grow by 25 percent in 2014, reaching over $100B.
Cloud
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Is your Finance Department ready for the future?
Mobile is now the de facto way for business users and consumers to devour and act on data. Technologies that aren’t designed to
work on every mobile device will lose market share in the coming year.
Mobile First, Web Always
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Is your Finance Department ready for the future?
According to a recent survey by research and consulting firm McKinsey [3] & Co., more than a third of C-level executives predicted that successfully leveraging big data − along with mobile, social and cloud computing − would boost their operating profits by 10% in just three years.
Big Data
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Is your Finance Department ready for the future?
The average company spends 4 months budgeting using legacy technologies.
Error prone spreadsheets are usually to blame, and they’re costing companies 4 months every year that could be spent more productively.
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Is your Finance Department ready for the future?
In contrast, companies using modern business performance management spend only 14 days forecasting because their analytical processes enable fast, accurate and data-driven decisions.
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Advantages to a Cloud-Based, Modern Approach to Business Performance & Analytics
According to a July 2013 Gartner[1] report, CFOs stated their #1 priority in the coming year is growth. And they state that business analytics and performance management will be their most important tool for achieving growth. With legacy systems it can take weeks to close the books,
but businesses today move in real-time. Can you afford to stick with technologies that can’t keep
up with the pace of business?• And will you wait until your competition adopts them and you are
left behind?
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Are you ready to again pay that $250K maintenance bill from your legacy vendor for zero innovation on a product that’s 20 years old? Modern Performance Management in the cloud gives you more accurate, predictable results for
competitive advantage, without the huge price tag.
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The Choice is to Eat or Be Eaten
Real Time insight from big data and modern systems gives CFOs the data they need to improve decisions, reduce risk and improve performance.
Using old data is like choosing your clothes on yesterday’s weather report. Hope you don’t forget your umbrella!
Advantages
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The Choice is to Eat or Be Eaten
Context around data − You need it to extract value
Modern business analytics use context to pinpoint where to place resources so that your business runs more efficiently. Would you rather use a GPS or a fold out map? We thought so.
Advantages
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The Choice is to Eat or Be Eaten
Collaboration is KeyYour finance department is only one department − but by integrating all departments and roles within your organization, budgeting and forecasting becomes dynamic and effective. No more Excel Hell − need we say more?
Advantages
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The Choice is to Eat or Be Eaten
StorylinesTM Makes It ClearThe ability to see and share actionable visualizations that dynamically tell the story of a company’s performance in the context of data driven decisions that make sense of massive amounts of internal and external data in real-time. Data that everyone can see, share and understand.
Advantages
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CFOs need modern solutions to realize the full potential of their business − they need platforms built for the cloud, for any mobile device and designed to
take in real-time data from virtually any source.
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They need solutions that replace annual budgeting with planning that are always current, saving time and resources and driving a culture of performance across the company. Only then will they move from bean counters to business performance management champions.
Modern Solutions:• Improve decision making• Reduce risk• Improve business performance
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Footnotes[1] Gartner, July 31, 2013. Tech Go-to-Market: Best Practices for Selling Services or Solutions[2] IDC Worldwide ICT Industry Predictions 2014[3]McKinsey & Company Global Survey, “Minding Your Digital Business”, 2012
Still considering keeping your legacy EPM platform?
Consider This: That’s like managing the next 10 years of business performance with a platform built for the last 10.
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