In today’s digital world, analytics and financial planning is a key factor in successfully improving and modernizing the office of finance and business operation. Due to new levels of intelligence, automation, and integration, finance leaders need to expand their current vision and reprioritize their strategic roadmaps—or risk being left behind.
According to Gartner, “as finance applications continue to evolve, application leaders responsible for finance applications should: extend FP&A by executing an extended planning and analysis (xP&A) strategy that enables finance to lead and coordinate broader, company-wide continuous planning and performance management initiatives.”
Or, as SAP likes to call it, Collaborative Planning.
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Gartner, 2020 Strategic Roadmap for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions, Robert Anderson, John Van Decker, 21 February 2020.
