The Finext Line Up 2026

The EPM market is loud. Most of it isn't worth your time. Vendors talk transformation. Platforms promise the future of finance. You've heard it. So on 24 September, we skip the pitch and get into the tools themselves. Thirteen of them, one table, with experts and clients who've run real selection processes.

Finance professionals pick consolidation and financial planning tools once every several years. The decision takes months, and the market gives you no neutral ground to stand on. The Performance Management Line Up changes that. Finext evaluates 13 solutions across the same three criteria every year: data integration, visualization, and calculation capacity. You see how they compare. You discuss the trade-offs with peers facing the same call.

The Finext line up 2026

One framework. No favourites.

Finext runs tool selections for a living. That means we know where the marketing ends and the capability starts. Every tool in the Line Up gets the same questions and the same amount of time. Whether it's a point solution or a full modular platform, the evaluation criteria stay the same. You walk away with a consistent view of a market that vendors prefer to keep fragmented.

What to expect

• An overview of 13 consolidation and financial planning solutions, organized across three categories
• Finext's independent assessment of each tool's strengths and limitations
• A live table discussion with finance peers on the questions that drive selection decisions
• Guidance on which tools fit which part of your architecture

Programme

Not all consolidation and financial planning tools are built the same way. Comparing a point solution to a modular platform on the same criteria is like judging a bond on equity returns — technically possible, but not particularly useful. Finext groups tools by how they're built so every solution gets evaluated on its own terms.

Point solutions: tools built for focus

Some consolidation and financial planning challenges call for a tool that does one thing well. In this segment, Finext frames what point solutions bring to the table, where they fit in a broader architecture, and which trade-offs come with the territory. The conversation covers six tools across planning, consolidation, and reporting.

Tools in scope: Abacum, Board, Jedox, Pigment, Una Software, Vena Solutions

Modular platforms: tools built to grow

Modular platforms promise flexibility. In practice, that flexibility has a shape and a cost. Finext opens the conversation on what modular means for consolidation and financial planning, how these platforms expand over time, and where the seams show. Three of the five platforms in this category (Anaplan, Oracle, and SAP Cloud Finance) run deep enough to cover more than one use case.

Tools in scope: Anaplan, Lucanet, Oracle EP, Prophix, SAP Cloud Finance

Organic platforms: tools built from the ground up

CCH Tagetik and OneStream grew into full platforms over time. This segment explores what that maturity means for finance teams today: where the depth is an asset and where it asks something of your implementation and your team.

Tools in scope: CCH Tagetik, OneStream

Table discussion

The categories are the starting point. Finance peers take it from there — sharing what selection looked like from the inside, which criteria held up, and what they'd approach differently.

For whom?

This event is for finance leaders who are evaluating consolidation and financial planning tools, or expect to within the next 12 months.

• CFOs and Finance Directors
• Finance Controllers ready to upgrade their toolstack
• Finance Transformation Leads managing a selection process