xFP&A Blog

Browse featured stories and the latest posts on a variety of extended financial planning and analysis topics. 

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Differences Between EPM and CPM Software

The terms Corporate Performance Management (CPM) and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) are often used interchangeably. These two forms of performance management software help businesses manage their resources and stay on track with their...

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Financial Reporting in Power BI or in a CPM Solution?

If you have ever tried to build and maintain financial reports inside a visualization tool, the answer should be simple. Power BI works well for...

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How to Improve Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting

Are you dreading your company’s budgeting process? Are you manually exporting data from your ERP system to Excel and compiling numerous spreadsheets...

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How to Choose the Best CPM Vendor

We are all customers of a business. Whether you’re browsing Amazon for a home vacuum that doesn’t break down every year or picking out produce at...

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How to Use Workflows in Your Budgeting Process

This article will describe the value of using workflows for budgeting.

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The Benefits of Budgeting with Budget Templates

Budgeting is a topic that is not very popular in many organizations. It can be an extremely time-consuming project for many employees. This is why it...

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Microsoft Dynamics Reporting Solver

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How to Enable Modern Reporting and Budgeting for Microsoft Dynamics

Making world-class decisions is imperative for any organization to succeed, and the ability to do it quickly and efficiently gives a competitive...

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Top 5 Reporting Problems Faced by a CEO and Their Technology Solutions, Part 2

This article continues the discussion of the top five problems facing CEOs today in regard to corporate performance management, with a focus on...

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Top 5 Reporting Problems Faced by a CEO and Their Technology Solutions, Part 1

This article discusses the top five problems facing CEOs today in regard to corporate performance management, zooming in on reporting.

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Top 8 Business Intelligence Acronyms

Have you ever started a new job in an industry you have no experience in? Learning the industry jargon can be overwhelming. I can personally attest...

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