AARO CPM vs CCH Tagetik

AARO CPM provides financial consolidation and reporting for organizations with multiple entities. It supports group accounting, consolidated financial statements, analytics, operational management analysis, simulations, recalculations, planning, budgeting, and forecasting. AARO says it can support groups ranging from three companies to a thousand, with users able to analyze data and generate consolidated statements during financial close. The preconfigured Base Package includes an EU BAS chart of accounts based on IFRS, an acquisition register, cash flow, financial statements and notes, acquisition elimination, Excel add-ons, and a dashboard. AARO Integrator imports data from multiple ERP systems, including VISMA, Navision, Hogia, Agresso, NetSuite, SAP, and Microsoft Dynamics; imports can be scheduled or handled semi-automatically with mapping and conversion rules. AARO Connector makes figures available in other systems, including BI, budgeting and forecasting solutions, Excel, and other Office tools. Deployment is available as a managed cloud service or on-premise. Pricing is on request, with demos offered.

CCH Tagetik brings financial close, planning, and reporting together in a platform for the Office of the CFO. Its capabilities include budgeting, forecasting, scenario modeling, workforce planning, variance analysis, forecast-versus-actuals work, and financial consolidation. The platform also covers ESG and regulatory reporting, corporate tax, account reconciliation, profitability analysis, and supply chain planning. It is offered for cloud or on-premise deployment, with connectors for SAP, Microsoft, and Qlik and integrations with ERP, CRM, SharePoint, MS Office, and numerous data formats. The SAP HANA version is described as SAP-powered certified, with real-time data access and drill-through. The vendor lists cloud certifications and reports, plus 24x7x365 availability monitoring and alerting and 99.9% uptime achieved. Standard support is included in the annual maintenance fee; additional options cost extra. Founded in 1986 in Lucca, Italy, Tagetik launched its brand in 2005 and was acquired by Wolters Kluwer in 2017. Pricing is on request.