CPM Trends 2026 – Key Takeaways
Executive Summary of the CPM Trend Monitor 2026
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Last edited: February 19, 2026
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About the author(s)
CEO, BPM Partners
Craig Schiff is CEO and Lead Analyst at BPM Partners. He was a founding member of Hyperion (which is now part of Oracle), and spent 16 years as SVP of its Products & Services group. More recently he was co-founder and CEO of Outlook-Soft (now part of SAP). He was also a founding member of the BPM Standards Group and is a recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
He has spent 30+ years focused on budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, reporting and analytics. He has contributed his expertise to CFO Magazine, American Productivity & Quality Center, Association for Financial Professionals, Institute of Management Accountants, IndustryWeek, TechTarget, Information Management, TDWI and other leading finance and technology focused publications and conferences. For the fourth year in a row BPM Partners has been recognized as one of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms by Forbes.
Senior Analyst Data & Analytics
Dr. Christian Fuchs is a Senior Analyst and Head of Data & Analytics Research at BARC. He is the author of numerous BARC studies as well as a sought-after speaker at conferences. His areas of expertise are decision support information systems in corporate performance management (CPM), planning, consolidation and analytics front ends.
As a consultant, he supports companies in the software selection process and in the implementation phase as well as with strategic questions regarding tool portfolios, architecture and usage scenarios.