Buyers Guides for Business Planning

2025 Software Provider and Product Assessment

The 2025 ISG Buyers Guides™ for Business Planning are the distillation of continuous market and product research. It is an assessment of how well software providers’ offerings address enterprises’ requirements for business planning software. The Value Index methodology is structured to support a request for information (RFI) for a request for proposal (RFP) process by incorporating all criteria needed to evaluate, select, utilize and maintain relationships with software providers. The ISG Buyers Guide evaluates customer experience and the product experience in its capability and platform.

The Buyers Guide for Business Planning evaluate providers across four software categories with unique research for each focus area to help enterprises assess and select software providers. The Business Planning Buyers Guide report includes four software categories with specific ratings, rankings and analysis for overall business planning, financial planning, revenue planning and workforce planning. 

• The Business Planning Buyers Guide evaluates 17 software providers and products based on functionality that supports integrated operational and financial planning, multidimensional modeling, forecasting, analysis and reporting. The guide assesses the following providers: Anaplan, Board, IBM, Infor, insightsoftware, Jedox, Lucanet, OneStream, Oracle, Pigment, Planful, Prophix, SAP, Unit4, Vena Solutions, Wolters Kluwer and Workday.
   
  
  • The Financial Planning Buyers Guide evaluates 17 software providers and products in key areas based on how well the software facilitates budgeting and financial planning. The guide assesses the following providers: Anaplan, Board, IBM, Infor, insightsoftware, Jedox, Lucanet, OneStream, Oracle, Pigment, Planful, Prophix, SAP, Unit4, Vena Solutions, Wolters Kluwer and Workday.
    
    
  • The Revenue Planning Buyers Guide evaluates 16 software providers and products based on how well the software facilitates revenue forecasting, territory and quota planning, sales capacity and incentive compensation. The guide assesses the following providers: Anaplan, Board, IBM, Infor, Jedox, Lucanet, OneStream, Oracle, Pigment, Planful, Prophix, SAP, Unit4, Vena Solutions, Wolters Kluwer and Workday.
    
    
  • The Workforce Planning Buyers Guide evaluates 16 software providers and products in key areas based on how well the software supports headcount forecasting, models the employee lifecycle, manages hiring and retention plans and aligns skills with business needs. The guide assesses the following providers: Anaplan, Board, IBM, Infor, Jedox, Lucanet, OneStream, Oracle, Pigment, Planful, Prophix, SAP, Unit4, Vena Solutions, Wolters Kluwer and Workday.
    
    
• The Financial Planning Emerging Providers Buyers Guide evaluates 10 software providers and products, covering software designed to facilitate budgeting and financial planning and highlights how these offerings fit within the broader enterprise planning landscape. The guide assesses the following providers: Abacum, Centage, Cube, Datarails, Drivetrain, insightsoftware, Jirav, Phocas Software, Sage and Solver.
  
  

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