Planning, Reporting & Analysis
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Vendor Listing

These are the main vendors providing budgeting, forecasting and reporting software either as part of an integrated suite or as a series of dedicated applications.

 

There are probably 5 or 6 top vendors in this list and many others not listed due to their niche status or size. 

 

One of the independent assessments of these Vendors can be found in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management.

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Adaytum - Leading budgeting and forecasting application acquired by Cognos

 

Armstrong-Laing - Activity Based Costing and Predictive Planning applications now acquired by Business Objects

 

Applix - BPM tools vendor based on its own OLAP engine with strong Excel focus - to be aquired by Cognos

 

Business Objects - Acquired SRC and ALG to add financial analytic capabilites to its Business Intelligence offerings.  Bought Cartesis and now itself bought by SAP

 

Cartesis - High End Consolidation Vendor that acquired INEA to develop its Budgeting and Forecasting capability now owned by Business Objects

 

Clarity Systems - Until recently a US based consultancy with a Performance Management suite based on Hyperion Essbass, now in Europe and running also on Microsoft SQL Server / Analysis Services

 

Coda - This ERP vendor has added Performance Management and BI to its core offering.

 

Cognos - one of the first BI vednors to acquire best of breed applications for Performance Management.  The former Adaytum and Frango products round out its Performance Management Suite

 

Comshare - Performance Management application acquired by Geav, in turn acquired by Infor

 

Corvu - Originally a Balanced Scorecard vendor, they now have a Performance Management suite

 

Frango - Leading cnsolidation application acquired by Cognos

 

FRx Software - A Microsoft subsidiary offering Financial Reporting and Budgeting and Forecasting applications

 

Hyperion - Performance Management suite of applications acquired by Oracle

 

INEA - Budgeting and forecasting applications now acquired by Cartesis

 

Infor - A more recent organisation that has acquired many Tier 2 ERP vendors but through the Geac purchase aquired Comshare, nown called Extensity MPC - an integrated Performance Management application 

 

Longview Solutions - A Canadian organisation with an integrated Performance Management application acquired by Exact Software

 

Microsoft PerformancePoint - Microsofts first venture into the Performance Management space with an integrated application for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis

 

MIS Alea - Budgeting, forecasting and reporting applications acquired by Systems Union, in turn acquired by Infor

 

Oracle - ERP vendor with its own Performance Management applications has now acquired Hyperion -  itself a leader in the Performance Management with a suite of applications inclusing the former Business Intelligence company Brio

 

Outlooksoft - an integrated Performance Management application formed by ex Hyperion employees

 based on a Microsoft platform now owned by SAP

 

Prophix - A US based supplier of a Performance Management suite based on MS SQL now expanding into Europe

 

SAP - ERP vendor with its own application suite for Performance Management and host of acquired products

 

SAS - Privately owned company strong in Business Intelligence and data analysis that also has a Performance Management application suite