Strategic Partnerships for Elite EPM & xP&A Solutions 

 At Column5 Consulting, our strategic partnerships empower organizations to achieve unparalleled Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Extended Planning & Analysis (xP&A) performance. With nearly two decades of expertise, rooted in our leadership at OutlookSoft (the origin of SAP BPC), we collaborate with industry-leading partners to deliver AI-driven EPM solutions across multiple world class vendors. As SAP BPC versions approach end of mainstream maintenance (EOMM), our partnerships ensure your EPM/xP&A ecosystem is agile, scalable, and tailored to your needs. 

Technology Partners

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 Darwin Analytics revolutionizes EPM and xP&A with its cross vendor marketplace and agentic orchestration platform. The marketplace connects clients to prebuilt solutions from leading trusted advisor services firms in EPM, ensuring the perfect fit for budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, and reporting. Darwin’s orchestration platform integrates multiple tools into a cohesive, AI-enhanced ecosystem, driving real-time insights and operational efficiency. Column5 leverages Darwin Analytics to deliver scalable, future-ready solutions that maximize ROI and adaptability. 

 
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 As an SAP Partner, Column5 is recognized for rigorous processes, quality standards, and customer satisfaction. We actively participate in SAP’s EPM ecosystem, hosting customer outreach events in North America and EMEA, contributing to new product launches and early adopter programs, and have a history of developing SAP-certified content for rapid results. Our collaboration with SAP ensures clients access advanced analytics tools like SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), and S/4HANA Group Reporting. SAP's powerful EPM and Analytics components can be integrated with Darwin Analytics orchestration platform and prebuilt content from Darwin's marketplace to achieve a future-ready EPM/xP&A strategy. 

 

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Vena is a leading EPM platform that empowers organizations with flexible, cloud-based solutions for financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. With prebuilt content available through Darwin Analytics’ marketplace, Vena’s intuitive interface and Excel integration streamline complex processes while supporting advanced analytics and collaboration. Column5 harnesses Vena’s capabilities to deliver tailored EPM/xP&A solutions, seamlessly integrated with other vendor tools via Darwin’s orchestration platform, ensuring agility and measurable value. 

 

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 Column5 partners with Workiva (NYSE: WK), a leader in connected reporting, to streamline data integration and enhance transparency. Workiva’s open, intelligent platform connects data, documents, and teams, enabling automated reporting and compliance processes. Integrated with modern EPM/xP&A solutions through Darwin Analytics, Workiva helps clients achieve greater efficiency, reduced risk, and real-time insights. Visit workiva.com for more details. 

 

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AWS is Column5’s strategic cloud hosting platform, offering scalable, cost-effective infrastructure for EPM and xP&A solutions. As an SAP-certified hosting partner, AWS enables rapid deployment of secure, client-specific environments and virtual clients for development, testing, and production. Column5 leverages AWS to host SAP and multi-vendor solutions, including those from Darwin Analytics’ marketplace, ensuring high performance and flexibility.


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 Column5’s deep expertise in Microsoft technologies, including SQL Server, Analysis Services (SSAS), Integration Services (SSIS), Reporting Services (SSRS), MS Fabric and Azure cloud, powers robust EPM/xP&A ecosystems. Popular business intelligence client - Power BI - is supported to report on any EPM product via Darwin Analytics' orchestration platform. Our experience ensures seamless integration of Microsoft-based solutions with vendor-agnostic platforms via Darwin Analytics, delivering scalable, user-friendly environments that drive adoption and efficiency. 

 

 

Services Partners

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Column5 is a proud member of EPM International, a global network of independent performance management consultants. This partnership enhances our ability to deliver cross-border EPM projects with multi-national teams. Together, we co-produce the Global Close Cycle Rankings Report, benchmarking financial close process efficiency and creating roadmaps for process optimization, standardization, and enhanced analytics. Contact us to learn how this report can drive your EPM strategy.