五对五:Gartner®再次认可了anplan在xP&A方面的优势

Comparing vendors with extended planning and analysis (xP&A) solutions can be tough. The emerging space is filled with products that tackle xP&A to different degrees of completeness; some are only partial solutions and others are good at one aspect of xP&A but not so great at others.

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Gaining clarity into the evolving market of financial planning and analysis (FP&A) can be tricky. Luckily, Gartner picked up on this confusion in the market last year and published its first Market Guide for Cloud Extended Planning and Analysis Solutions, highlighting 15 vendors, and indicating that xP&A is where the financial planning market is headed.

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But that was a year ago. Now, Gartner issued the 2022 edition of this Market Guide, dropping that list down to seven, trimming away half of the FP&A vendors. Of the seven that were recognized, five of them have packaged solutions for three or fewer of the key planning functions Gartner identified, where, once again, Anaplan is recognized for having all five xP&A capabilities beyond Finance.

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The statistics given in the guide show that businesses’ understanding of the value of xP&A is evolving rapidly. For example, according to the report, “Through 2024, 30% of FP&A implementations will be extended to support operational processes, with 50% requiring a substantial xP&A roadmap.” Nearly all of Gartner survey respondents – 96%– agreed that operational planning needs to be integrated and aligned with FP&A and “importance is materializing at the C-suite level.”

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In other words, the need for a complete solution that can work across the entire organization is here today.

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The Gartner survey also found that 55 percent of finance and IT leaders responsible for planning efforts agreed the finance function plays an outsized role in driving collaborative cross-enterprise planning efforts. Despite that, Gartner implies that xP&A is evolving from being “finance-centric” to more platform-centric, describing it as “a maturing approach to enterprise planning.” A shared data model, high data capacity and performance modeling capability, centralized application services and collaborative planning are viewed as keys to breaking xP&A out of finance and into prominence across the entire organization. Not coincidentally, these attributes are key parts of Anaplan’s solution.

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Gartner cautions that application leaders should “be mindful that operational planning solutions offered by FP&A vendors, while maturing, may not be as robust as stand-alone BOB planning application counterparts. The depth and breadth of functionality offered by solutions often vary and must be properly evaluated in addition to vendor experience.”

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For Anaplan, planning has been foundational to our value proposition. And as a result, our cloud-native Connected Planning platform, which is a singular product built via a unified code base, is the only vendor that has been named a Magic Quadrant™ Leader in Finance – for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions, in Sales – for Sales Performance Management, and now in 2022 with Supply Chain – for our Supply Chain Planning Solutions.

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It’s exciting to be recognized once again in this fast evolving and increasingly important space. Want to learn more? See the full Gartner Market Guide here.

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Gartner, Market Guide for Cloud Extended Planning and Analysis Solutions, 19 July 2022, Robert Anderson et. Al.

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比较具有扩展计划和分析(xP&A)解决方案的供应商可能很困难。新兴领域充满了不同程度完成xP&A的产品;有些只是部分解决方案，有些擅长xP&A的一个方面，但不擅长其他方面。

清晰地了解不断发展的财务规划与分析市场可能会很棘手。幸运的是，Gartner在去年发现了市场上的这种困惑，并发布了第一份《云扩展计划和分析解决方案市场指南》，重点介绍了15家供应商，并指出xP&A是财务规划市场的发展方向。

但那是一年前的事了。现在，Gartner发布了2022年版的《市场指南》，将名单减少到7家，削减了一半的FP&A供应商。在被认可的七家公司中，有五家公司提供了针对Gartner确定的三个或更少的关键规划功能的打包解决方案，其中，anplan再次被认可为拥有财务之外的所有五个xP&A功能。

指南中给出的统计数据表明，企业对xP&A价值的理解正在迅速发展。例如，根据报告，“到2024年，30%的FP&A实施将扩展到支持操作流程，50%需要实质性的xP&A路线图。”几乎所有Gartner调查的受访者(96%)都认为，运营规划需要与FP&A整合并保持一致，而且“在高管层的重要性正在显现”。

换句话说，现在需要一个可以在整个组织中工作的完整解决方案。

Gartner的调查还发现，55%负责规划工作的财务和IT领导者认为，财务职能在推动跨企业协作规划工作方面发挥着巨大的作用。尽管如此，Gartner暗示xP&A正在从“以财务为中心”向更加以平台为中心发展，并将其描述为“一种成熟的企业规划方法”。共享的数据模型、高数据容量和性能建模能力、集中的应用程序服务和协作规划被视为将xP&A从财务中剥离出来并在整个组织中占据突出地位的关键。并非巧合的是，这些属性是anplan解决方案的关键部分。

Gartner警告说，应用程序领导者应该“注意FP&A供应商提供的运营规划解决方案，虽然日趋成熟，但可能不如独立的BOB规划应用程序那么强大。解决方案提供的功能的深度和广度往往各不相同，除了供应商的经验之外，还必须对其进行适当的评估。”

对于anplan来说，规划是我们价值主张的基础。因此，我们的云原生连接规划平台是一个通过统一代码库构建的单一产品，是唯一一家在财务(云财务规划和分析解决方案)、销售(销售绩效管理)和供应链(供应链规划解决方案)领域被评为Magic Quadrant™领导者的供应商。

在这个快速发展和日益重要的领域再次得到认可，令人兴奋。想了解更多?请参阅完整的Gartner市场指南在这里．

Gartner，《云扩展规划和分析解决方案市场指南》，2022年7月19日，Robert Anderson等。

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