InfoCat has been implementing budgeting, planning and analysis solutions for over 20 years.  When we talk to prospective customers about consultancy projects/implementation costs they sometimes ask about fixed-price contracts, believing this will give them certainty and remove any risk associated with the project.

There is a good article published today on thought leadership site The IT Insider - "Budgeting in the Cloud".  They have really hit the key points, very succinctly, on why organisations are making such a meal of the planning process.

Planning Analytics was 'launched' in December 2015. More recently IBM made it available to partners to test and understand - clearly (IMO) a sensible step towards broader acceptance. These are my findings so far and my thoughts for the future - we should hear more at Vision (Orlando, 9 May) about what's coming:

Last week we kicked off our discussion on the issues to be considered when comparing cloud and on-premises options for your performance management application.  The post immediately below this one covered our first three topics:

We talk to businesses of all kinds about their performance management processes and their plans for the future.  A natural part of that discussion is where new applications will be located – in-house or in the cloud – and the pros and cons of those options untainted by marketing hype.