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Top Microsoft Features in the Best CPM Software Apps
This article is part 6 of an 8-part series on evaluating the best xFP&A/CPM tools for your business. Part 6 focuses on the many Microsoft integration capabilities to look for in the best xFP&A/CPM software applications.
Most organizations in the world use one or more technologies from Microsoft. So, when selecting a new cloud Extended Financial Planning & Analysis (xFP&A)/Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solution the benefit of close Microsoft alignment can be from “slight” to “very important” or “required.” As the world’s businesses have migrated one application after another to the cloud, they have had to re-establish whatever connectivity they had between their solutions when they hosted them in their own server room. For the reasons mentioned above, most of the top xFP&A/CPM vendors have integrations to the most popular Microsoft technologies in order to increase their customers’ productivity. Here are some of the top Microsoft integrations to look for in the best xFP&A/CPM solutions based on which Microsoft technologies your organization uses, one or more of these integrations may be beneficial (or even highly important):
- Microsoft Office / Microsoft 365 integration
- Excel integrations can offer everything from the xFP&A/CPM report designer being an Excel add-in, to report export to Excel and data import from Excel.
- PowerPoint integrations are typically used to display and refresh reports or dashboards within a corporate financial presentation.
- Word integrations are less popular but can be critical for governments and other organizations that need to refresh financial and other figures inside lengthy annual or quarterly report documents.
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- Power BI integration
- Microsoft Teams integration
- Microsoft Dynamics integrations
- Azure deployment
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