CCH Tagetik vs Gordian VFA Capital Planning

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.

Gordian VFA Capital Planning helps facilities teams plan multi-year investment across real estate portfolios and connect spending decisions to organizational missions. It models funding and spending scenarios, scores and bundles projects, and generates capital plans and executive progress or benchmark reports. Forecasting tools let users examine long-term costs and how different spending levels may affect facility conditions. Its asset database tracks details such as location, type, condition, requirements, costs, projects, and plans; portfolio comparisons can use industry benchmarks including the Facility Condition Index. Users can customize fields and lists, then sort, group, or filter information by portfolio criteria. Supported cost sources include RSMeans Data, BCIS, BOMA, third-party providers, and proprietary estimates. The cloud-based software offers secure desktop and mobile-tablet access, while an iPad and Android assessment solution captures facility condition data. VFA Auditor can pass approved field assessments into capital planning. Pricing is on request. Gordian says support requires a current maintenance contract, and it has no obligation to retain customer data after 30 days following subscription termination.