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Corporate performance management (CPM) software monitors and manages an organization's performance, according to key performance indicators. These can be revenue, return on investment, ROI, or other corporate strategic goals.
These activities are designed to assist with both data-driven operational, short-term planning and strategic long-term planning:
Long-term financial planning
Financial budgeting
Forecasting
Scenario modeling
Management reporting
These features allow CPM users to combine and examine data from multiple entities:
Financial data consolidation
Journal entries and reports
Multi-currency management
Intercompany eliminations
Minority ownership
Local and consolidated reporting
Detailed audit trails
These features assist CPM users with their financial statements and regulatory filings:
Financial statement reporting
Management reporting
Excel-based reporting
Automated board and financial reporting
XBRL support for regulatory filing
These tools for at-a-glance and in-depth analysis help CPM users interpret performance metrics in the context of their company's larger strategic goals:
Personalized dashboards
Color-coded scorecards
KPIs
Cost and profitability analysis
Key Performance Indicator setting
Benchmarking with external data
It is vitally important for a CPM system to integrate with a company's BI system. The BI system feeds the CPM system performance data, which the CPM system links with strategic and financial data for the purpose of higher level planning and assessment. Types of integration include:
Flat file integration
Excel data integration
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
This is a process-oriented set of tasks that involves financial activities including:
Budgeting
Planning
Forecasting
Financial consolidation and close
Financial reporting and compliance
Analytics and financial reporting
Calculating return on investment (ROI)
Overhead and operational costs
Profitability modeling
Corporate Performance Management (CPM) is a closely related discipline to Business Intelligence (BI).
CPM leverages the data provided by BI to guide the organization towards its strategic objectives. The KPIs and scorecards that are the endpoint of BI systems are the starting point of CPM. CPM software links those metrics to the strategic goals of the organization.
BI is focused on gathering and processing disparate data and presenting it in an easy to digest form like a report or visualization or a dashboard. However, reporting is not necessarily linked to an organization’s strategy. It does not include any mechanisms for planning, controlling, or managing towards business objectives or KPIs.
The fact that these categories are so closely related has led to some category convergence with a number of leading products offering both CPM and BI capabilities in the same platform.
Pricing varies widely depending on whether tools are designed to serve SMBs or enterprises. Subscription pricing structure is usually per seat per month, with lower pricing for read-only seats. Enterprises are typically paying in the region of $25k total subscription price for market leading solutions.
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