Nucleus Research’s “CPM Technology Value Matrix 2017” named IBM a leader in Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solutions and found that “recent changes to its CPM products focus both on personal functionality and usability, empowering a greater diversity of individual users with more tools.”

Based on its assessment of 17 vendors offering CPM products, the research firm determined that there are two types of CPM products: “those that are tightly integrated with Excel and those that try to reimagine CPM through a different interface.” Nucleus Research considers IBM among those vendors who offer up an Excel-like experience, noting that IBM’s CPM offerings have “tighter Excel integration” and that “IBM has attempted to keep the comfort of Excel with the improved power of the IBM engine.”

The other vendors named as leaders include Adaptive Insights, Anaplan, Host Analytics, Info, Oracle and Vena Solutions. The report also covers Axiom Software, SAP, SAS, BOARD, CCH Tagetik, insightsoftware.com, Centage, Longview, Prophix and QPR.