Budgeting & Planning: "Thinkin' 'bout glory days"
Glory Days
This week Bruce Springsteen is setting up shop for 5 straight nights at the Meadowlands at the age of 60. Coincidentally, this week Guy Haddleton is jumping back into the ring with a new planning product (called Anaplan) which was unveiled this week at DEMOfall 09 ,almost 20 years after he founded Adaytum.
No Sliding
I applaud Guy for not doing the infamous stage slide - that The Boss did at the Super Bowl - but his return to "the stage" did get me thinking about a recent trend in the Budgeting & Planning market.
The old guard returns
The early pioneers are jumping back into the market en mass. Why?...to try and recapture "the glory days" when their small companies dominated the budgeting and planning market.
"...I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it but I probably will. Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of...glory days." - Glory Days, Bruce Springsteen, 1984
Rather than "sitting around talking about it" many of them are getting funding, building product and taking it to market.
Acquisitions have created room for newcomers
The planning market had become somewhat depleted over the last several years as many of the old guard was acquired by bigger vendors, but recently we are seeing the market become crowded again with new(er) vendors popping up often led by executives who were part of the old glory days looking to recreate the magic.
Trying to recapture...
Here is a list just off the top of my head (I've probably missed 1 or 2) of the new breed of Budgeting & Planning vendors with senior executives from the old guard:
Adaptive Planning
Alight Planning
Anaplan
Blueline Planning
Host Analytics
Tagetik
XLerant
The test of time
Can these vendors find a place in the void left by the acquisitions in this space? Can the "crafty veterans" they've brought in conjure up the past successes and wrestle market share away from the big names in this market? Time will tell but who knows... after all Bruce and the band still put on a better show than many acts half, or even a 3rd, their age.
This week Bruce Springsteen is setting up shop for 5 straight nights at the Meadowlands at the age of 60. Coincidentally, this week Guy Haddleton is jumping back into the ring with a new planning product (called Anaplan) which was unveiled this week at DEMOfall 09 ,almost 20 years after he founded Adaytum.
No Sliding I applaud Guy for not doing the infamous stage slide - that The Boss did at the Super Bowl - but his return to "the stage" did get me thinking about a recent trend in the Budgeting & Planning market.
The old guard returns
The early pioneers are jumping back into the market en mass. Why?...to try and recapture "the glory days" when their small companies dominated the budgeting and planning market.
"...I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it but I probably will. Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of...glory days." - Glory Days, Bruce Springsteen, 1984
Rather than "sitting around talking about it" many of them are getting funding, building product and taking it to market.
Acquisitions have created room for newcomers
The planning market had become somewhat depleted over the last several years as many of the old guard was acquired by bigger vendors, but recently we are seeing the market become crowded again with new(er) vendors popping up often led by executives who were part of the old glory days looking to recreate the magic.
Trying to recapture...
Here is a list just off the top of my head (I've probably missed 1 or 2) of the new breed of Budgeting & Planning vendors with senior executives from the old guard:
Adaptive Planning
Alight Planning
Anaplan
Blueline Planning
Host Analytics
Tagetik
XLerant
The test of time
Can these vendors find a place in the void left by the acquisitions in this space? Can the "crafty veterans" they've brought in conjure up the past successes and wrestle market share away from the big names in this market? Time will tell but who knows... after all Bruce and the band still put on a better show than many acts half, or even a 3rd, their age.
Posted by Dave Kasabian at 9/28/2009 1:47 PM 
Categories: General Musings
Tags: Planning Performance Management
Categories: General Musings
Tags: Planning Performance Management
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