Corporate Performance Management (CPM) Archives

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

Posted on February 11, 2022 (November 8, 2022) by Sam Payment

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 […]

Why Agility in Planning Leads to Better Business

Posted on January 28, 2022 (November 22, 2022) by Sarah Bergseth

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 […]

xP&A Accelerator: Improve Performance in 7 Steps

Posted on December 10, 2021 (September 8, 2022) by Sarah Bergseth

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 […]

5 Reasons Why Your Small Business Needs Corporate Performance Management

Posted on April 25, 2017 (August 25, 2022) by kiadmin

In a follow-up to my previous post (How to Select the Right CPM Software For Your Medium-Sized Business), I want to highlight some reasons why your small business needs Corporate Performance Management. 1. You don’t have enough time. As a small business owner, you are stretched thin having to manage and operate all aspects do whatever you want to update […]

What is Corporate Performance Management (CPM)?

Posted on April 18, 2017 (November 8, 2022) by kiadmin

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 […]

5 Ways to Convince Your Boss You Need New CPM Financial Software

Posted on March 30, 2017 (July 29, 2022) by kiadmin

You and I both know that your firm needs to upgrade your CPM financial software. You know why finance is rapidly moving to the cloud and you know why financial dashboards matter and how they can help your firm. You are fully aware of the ways in which spreadsheets are a weakness to your work-flow, do whatever you want to update […]

Corporate Performance Management Software – The Midmarket Company Savior

Posted on March 18, 2016 (November 8, 2022) by kiadmin

Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software or business performance management is an umbrella term generally used to describe a methodology or a process that helps businesses manage the success of their company. One can also think of corporate performance as the collective accomplishments, successes, and failures of an organization. Important to all, the new improved corporate do whatever you want to update […]