Training Advisory Services

The most challenging aspect of any EPM (Enterprise Performance Management) project is developing and maintaining sufficient skills in your organization to make your EPM investment sweat and your EPM process improvements stick. The Column5 EPM Academy believes that knowledgeable and confident users are essential to the success of an implementation, as well as the key to an organization’s ability to continue to evolve their solution over time and get significant value from the investment. The EPM Academy provides comprehensive and relevant training through a variety of delivery methods to best suit different organizations’ needs, all of which provide users with hands-on experience and detailed training materials. With our deep understanding of both the tool itself, as well as the best training methods, we can increase user adoption and enthusiasm for their solution and decrease the costs of implementation and maintenance. 

Welcome to a unique training proposition for those looking for a sustained return from their EPM investment. Training is not a one off, up-front cost for your project. As the team evolves, positions revolve, business processes improve and the EPM solution is upgraded, you must to find a way of accessing training when you need it and targeted at those who need it.  

Let us help you develop a long-term training plan that connects the right training at the right time with the right people. A well-developed training plan is essential for continued maintenance, evolution, and effectiveness of your solution and allows you to address training new employees and new-to-role users, as well as changes to your system or processes. Training plans are flexible and can consist of a blend of delivery methods, and can utilize our standard content or custom content developed to fit your EPM solution.