Whilst the march toward a world entirely based on cloud-based solutions continues ever onward, in the realm of Corporate Performance Management (CPM), the migration to cloud computing is not without its challenges. We recognize the growing popularity of cloud solutions among both suppliers and customers.

Suppliers love them for the repeat revenues whilst customers love them because of the elimination of capital expenditure on hardware and licencing, spread of cost and the reduction in need for IT skills in house.

However, this trend does pose certain challenges for CPM tools:

• Traditional on-premise systems allow for direct database access, making it easy to generate and run SQL queries for complex data analysis, which is good for analytics.