Forrester predicts that SaaS will replace on-premises software as the primary delivery model in five years—even though 8 in 10 EPM users today, in Forrester’s estimation, still rely on on-premises software. That being said, in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Performance Management, Q4 2016, Forrester only examines vendors that make their products available via SaaS or cloud delivery. “We excluded vendors with exclusively licensed, on-premises deployment models from the evaluation,” writes Paul D. Hamerman, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. And we agree, EPM in the cloud is a disruptive force in business and you can’t afford to be left behind.
Read the Forrester report to learn about:
- The current EPM landscape. The report evaluates 10 vendors in depth and briefly mentions eight others that didn’t make the cut. Each vendor is evaluated on the same 36 criteria.
- Modern EPM and the future of EPM. The report explains what technologies and capabilities comprise EPM. It also explores how EPM historically was positioned to serve people in finance, but today is used in many other corporate functions.
Anaplan and its customers believe that the last point—the expanding uses cases for EPM across the business—is particularly important in understanding what makes us different. “…
Anaplan disrupts traditional notions of finance-centric EPM,” Hamerman writes, “Anaplan is best for companies with relatively complex, data-intensive planning and modeling use cases in finance, sales, marketing, operations, and HR across a variety of industries.”
Enterprise performance management should live, and will live, in the cloud. Don’t get left behind.
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Source: Forrester “The Forrester Wave” Enterprise Performance Management, Q4 2016” by Paul D. Hamerman, October 6, 2016.