Buyers Guides for Business Planning

2024 Software Provider and Product Assessment

The ISG Buyers Guide™ for Business Planning evaluates products based on their support for IBP, a high-participation process that integrates individual business unit or departmental plans in the context or corporate strategy and financial objectives. This enables enterprises to plan, budget, report and analyze faster and more accurately, bringing together executives, managers, analysts and administration, while offering AI and reporting capabilities. The software must be capable of accessing data from a variety of sources, modeling the data for analysis, analyzing the data using a variety of techniques, communicating the results in a variety of ways and supporting the data and analytics processes.

The Buyers Guides for Business Planning evaluate software providers across four categories and produced a separate Buyers Guide and research for each to help best understand, assess, optimize and select software providers.

• The Business Planning Buyers Guide evaluates products based on their support for IBP, a high-participation process that integrates individual business unit or departmental plans in the context or corporate strategy and financial objectives. The guide assesses the following providers: Anaplan, Board, IBM, Jedox, OneStream, Oracle, Pigment, Planful, Prophix, SAP, Vena Solutions, Wolters Kluwer and Workday.

• The Financial Planning Buyers Guide evaluates products based on how well the software facilitates enterprise budgeting and financial planning. The guide assesses the following providers: Anaplan, Board, IBM, Infor, insightsoftware, Jedox, OneStream, Oracle, Pigment, Planful, Prophix, SAP, Vena Solutions, Wolters Kluwer and Workday.

• The Revenue Planning Buyers Guide evaluates products based on our comprehensive assessment of how well the software facilitates the creation and update of sales forecasts, supports territory and quota planning. The guide assesses the following providers: Anaplan, Board, IBM, Jedox, OneStream, Oracle, Pigment, Planful, Prophix, SAP, Vena Solutions, Wolters Kluwer and Workday.
  

• The Workforce Planning Buyers Guide evaluates products based on how well the software facilitates the creation and updating of headcount forecasts, models the employee lifecycle, supports hiring and retention plans, aligns skills with requirements and promotes agility through scenario planning. The guide assesses the following providers: Anaplan, Board, IBM, Jedox, OneStream, Oracle, Pigment, Planful, Prophix, SAP, Vena Solutions, Wolters Kluwer and Workday.

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