Our Roots

Column5 started in April 2005 to fulfill a broader vision of Enterprise Performance Management. Through acquisitions and organic growth, we have become one of the most experienced and respected EPM consultancies. Four things account for this:

• We understand the technology and processes
• We consistently deliver excellent results
• We hire outstanding people to achieve these results
• We foster an entrepreneurial culture that motivates us

Our people have completed more than 200 EPM projects. What this experience has taught us is that automating existing planning, budgeting and measurement processes only partially meets EPM value expectations. To fully realize this value, organizations need to rethink how EPM is used to plan and manage their business.

The lesson: You have to know the end point before you start. Otherwise, you'll be left searching for answers to one question that often plagues CFOs that have taken incremental automation approaches: What's next? We help you avoid the inevitable frustration that comes from having to ask this question.

At Column5, we help you build on EPM investments to deliver tangible bottom line results. We help you articulate how EPM will be integrated with activity-based costing, balanced scorecard, project, portfolio management and other approaches, to establish management processes that address your business issues. Appreciating how we do this starts with an understanding of our vision.