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THE BOTTOM LINE
Corporate Performance Management (CPM) is quickly transforming due to the emergence
of cloud-based CPM players, the use of disclosure management and tax management
solutions, the integration of CPM with business intelligence, and the increased demand for
performance management from line-of-business sources. In this context, Nucleus has
evaluated the usability and functionality that end users have received from CPM vendors
in the 2013 Corporate Performance Management Value Matrix.
MARKET OVERVIEW
Corporate Performance Management has traditionally been seen as a suite of capabilities
that support operational finance tasks such as: planning, budgeting and forecasting (PBF);
financial close and reporting, profitability, cost management, spend management, and
financial consolidation. In addition, many vendors also provide a strategy management
module to link high level strategy to specific operational performance measures.
Despite the relative maturity of core CPM, a new generation of software solutions that are
easy to use, quick to install, and often cloud-based have led to a new mid-market interest
in CPM. This market represents both a net-new opportunity for emerging vendors and for
larger, more traditional vendors to provide cost-appropriate solutions for this market.
In addition, over the past several years, a new set of capabilities have entered the
Corporate Performance Management market that have significantly changed the Return
on Investment associated with CPM solutions, including international support, tax
management, cloud-based solutions, mobile agents, and application integration. To
understand how these changes have led to value, consider that the value of CPM can
broadly be categorized into three different areas: commoditized value, differential value,
and rare value. By separating these three value propositions, it becomes much easier to
define what separates Leaders from Core Providers.
RESEARCH NOTE
TECHNOLOGY VALUE MATRIX – FIRST HALF 2013
CORPORATE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
June 2013 Document N93