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Financial Consolidation, Close Management and Financial Reporting Market Study 2025
While FCCR can be considered a mature market, it benefits from new technologies. Agentic AI is transforming FCCR and similar enterprise applications by deploying autonomous agents that collect data, reconcile accounts, generate entries, and prepare reports. Unlike basic automation, these agents learn, make decisions, and adapt to context, which speeds up reconciliation and consolidation, boosts accuracy, strengthens compliance through real-time monitoring, and allows finance teams to concentrate on strategic tasks.
AI, Data Science, and Machine Learning Market Study 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI), data science (DS), and machine learning (ML) are shifting from experimental to strategic enablers. Most organizations report AI is playing either a direct or supporting role in their business, with investment driven by the need to solve inefficiencies, experiment, and prepare for disruption. At the same time, AI governance remains inconsistent, with approaches ranging from centralized oversight to ad hoc or absent controls, reflecting an uneven path to maturity.
Despite modest current deployment, momentum is building. Larger organizations are sustaining long-term AI use, correlating with experimentation in generative and agentic approaches. Features such as outlier detection and model explainability remain essential, underscoring the need for transparency and trust. Overall, organizations are cautious but optimistic, advancing at different speeds toward more mature and pervasive use of AI, DS, and ML to drive business value.
ModelOps Market Study 2025
As organizations expand their use of AI, data science, and machine learning, ModelOps has become a critical discipline for managing models at scale.
The growing influence of agentic AI underscores the urgency of robust ModelOps practices, extending their importance beyond AI and machine learning to all analytical models. As adoption deepens, ModelOps will be central to ensuring adaptability, accountability, and value from models in production.
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Industrialize Enterprise Data to Really Take Advantage of Agentic AI
Agentic AI marks a turning point as profound as the shift from data centers to the cloud. What began as assistants—tools that helped people complete tasks—have become agents: autonomous digital labor that can plan, coordinate, and execute multistep workflows, end to end. For data leaders, this isn’t about incremental productivity gains; it’s about rethinking what can be achieved when machines don’t just help, but act.
Although BI Budgets Remain Solid, Data Leaders Must Take Action to Keep Them That Way
With sustained strong demand for analytic insights and the rising opportunities (and hype) around AI technology and use cases, data leaders and their teams are benefitting from continued investment by executive leadership in business intelligence (BI) and analytics. In general, BI budgets remain healthy and are showing positive organic growth, driven by past BI success and future artificial intelligence (AI) use cases. But with economic and regulatory volatility and increasing pressure to deliver on the promise of AI, data leaders and BI investments that aren’t well-positioned politically and strategically risk losing budget momentum.
Navigate Unprecedented External Forces by Resisting Uncertainty
External forces are causing organizations to confront their relationship with uncertainty. There are only two choices: accept uncertainty or resist it. Accepting uncertainty can paralyze an organization into inaction. Resisting it means creating a plan to combat uncertainty by prioritizing what is important and launching pilots to explore new modes of operating and competing. Failure to recognize when a business model strategy or tried-and-true tactics are losing effectiveness and instead relying on incremental solutions can prolong the uncertainty. Some organizations take the difficult but often rewarding approach of eliminating or modifying key components of their existing business model to better manage risk and identify new opportunities.
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Vena vs. Workday EPM
This special report examines the offerings and positioning of two major players in the EPM market: Vena Solutions (Vena) and Workday Adaptive Planning (Workday) and compares them on key aspects such as usability, integration capabilities, performance, scalability, and support. The goal is to provide a clear understanding of how each platform meets the needs of modern enterprises and supports their overall performance management initiatives.
Anaplan vs. Pigment EPM
This special report examines the offerings and positioning of two major players in the EPM market: Anaplan and Pigment and compares them on key aspects such as usability, integration capabilities, performance, scalability, and support. The goal is to provide a clear understanding of how each platform meets the needs of modern enterprises and supports their overall performance management initiatives.
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