Is Your Budgeting Process Broken?

Improve Your Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting in 2023 How many people in your organization love planning, budgeting, and forecasting? Probably none. The mere mention of the name “budget” raises eyebrows and evokes cynicism. It should. There is much to laugh about when describing the agonizing annual budget and forecasting processes: Common Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting do whatever you want to update […]

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What are BI and CPM – and Which Should You Choose?

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For an organization to manage their performance, they need to be able to interact with their data in meaningful ways. Business Intelligence (BI) solutions focus on information delivery, while Corporate Performance Management (CPM) platforms are more robust, with access to deeper planning and reporting tools. While CPM and BI can often look very similar, as do whatever you want to update […]

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Why Agility in Planning Leads to Better Business | Kepion Solution

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The phrase “agility in planning” has become a common discussion thread in finance and sales organizations and across all industries. 2020 brought widespread instability in businesses; no one could have predicted the impact of a global pandemic, a new virtual standard for company operations, and unknown impacts to markets across all industries. Many companies have do whatever you want to update […]

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xP&A Accelerator: Improve Performance in 7 Steps | Kepion Solution

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xP&A refers to extended planning and analysis—the implementation of financial planning and analysis (FP&A) across an entire business. This approach unites a company’s disparate divisions through a single and centralized FP&A platform, providing a “single source of truth” for company performance. In effect, each division can develop effective business plans and strategies because of access do whatever you want to update […]

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Why are Companies Searching for SAP BPC Alternatives? | Kepion Solution

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Whether you are considering adopting SAP BPC or have already, it is important to understand the total cost of ownership, the flexibility of the solution, and the product roadmap and innovation. With the announcement of SAP BPC roadmap discontinuing support on Microsoft and NetWeaver (by end of 2024) companies are looking for alternatives. This is do whatever you want to update […]

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How to Leverage Your SAP BPC Microsoft Investments? | Kepion Solution

How to Leverage Your SAP BPC Microsoft

You are not alone in facing the news that your SAP BPC Microsoft solution will no longer be supported.  When considering alternative solutions, not only is it important to seek a solution that can easily transition your existing SAP BPC Microsoft models, data, forms and rules, but it also creates an opportunity to find a do whatever you want to update […]

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Building a Sales Framework with Sales & Operations Planning Software

How to Build A Strong Sales Operations Framework

While it may not be very glamorous, sales operations play a critical role in a company’s success. No matter if you are working with (or scaling to) a couple, dozens, hundreds or thousands of sales reps, how a firm builds its sales ops framework and utilizes its sales and operations planning software is key. After do whatever you want to update […]

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How to Select the Right CPM Software for Your Medium-Sized Business

How to Select the Right CPM Software For Your Medium

In our last post, we detailed what exactly Corporate Performance Management (CPM) is, why CPM is important, who CPM is important for and what the business benefits of cloud-based CPM software are. In case you missed it, CPM is important for every company, but especially those looking to: Because CPM software can be so beneficial, do whatever you want to update […]

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What is Corporate Performance Management (CPM)?

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Despite the fact that we have written lots about both Corporate Performance Management (CPM) (this post on How Dashboards & Scorecards Can Improve Your Financial Reporting & this post detailing 5 Ways to Convince Your Boss You Need New CPM Financial Software) and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) (this post on How to Improve Revenue Planning with do whatever you want to update […]

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