Axiom vs Corporate Planner

Axiom provides financial planning and analysis, performance management, and reporting software for finance professionals. Its planning tools cover financial and operational budgets, long-range plans, rolling forecasts, staff and salary planning, capital budgeting, and sales planning. Strategic planning features include KPIs, scorecards, capital investments, and scenario modeling. Reporting includes dashboards, visualizations, drill-down and variance analysis, and automated report books in multiple formats. Axiom describes connections to financial, operational, and CRM data, including general ledger, HR, point-of-sale, fixed-asset, and transaction data. Analytics can be embedded in PowerPoint as interactive connected content or refreshable snapshots. Users can work through web and Microsoft Excel clients; dashboard viewers can use a browser on Macs, PCs, and mobile devices without installing software. Its cloud solution is hosted on Microsoft Azure and includes role- or user-based security and audit features. Listed Europe pricing examples include €17 a month for a 500-user large-business plan and €12,500 a month for a multinational deal.

Corporate Planner is a corporate performance management platform for operational management, planning, analysis, and consolidation. It supports flexible financial planning, forecasting, trend calculations, and scenario analysis, with ad-hoc analysis and real-time reporting. Integrated financial planning connects profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow, and covers budgets, liquidity, and capital expenditure. Solution areas include sales, HR, risk, fixed assets, costs, consolidation, and management reporting. The maker lists more than 350 standard integrations that connect source systems to a central database, with upstream value changes updated automatically. Workflow-driven task management and automation are included, along with more than 300 built-in business functions. Users can work through web or Excel clients and customized dashboards on desktops, tablets, and smartphones. The software is available on-premise or in the cloud. Its cloud service runs on Microsoft Azure, with data hosted in Germany's Trusted Cloud or another EU country. Pricing is on request. The maker says its platform is certified to German audit standards IDW PS 880 and IDW RS FAIT 1 and 4.