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Gartner® Market Guide for Cloud Extended Planning and Analysis Solutions

Cloud xP&A is a maturing approach to enterprise planning — consolidating both packaged financial and operational planning solutions on a single vendor platform. Application leaders can look to these vendors to enable continuous enterprise-wide planning and collaboration.

Gartner® Market Guide for Cloud Extended Planning and Analysis Solutions

As enterprises seek a more intelligent planning approach that drives collaboration and performance business-wide, Extended Planning & Analysis (xP&A) solutions are becoming a necessity. According to the Gartner® Market Guide for Cloud Extended Planning and Analysis Solutions, released in July 2022, "through 2024, 30% of FP&A implementations will be extended to support operational finance processes, with 50% requiring a substantial cloud xP&A roadmap from their FP&A vendors." 

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Gartner, Market Guide for Cloud Extended Planning and Analysis Solutions, Robert Anderson, Greg Leiter, Melissa Hilbert, 19th July 2022. 

Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Financial Planning Software, 19 December 2022, Regina Crowder | Matthew Mowrey | Farrah Watson 

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software, 14 December 2022, Regina Crowder | Matthew Mowrey | Farrah Watson 

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