# Corporate performance management for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, September 2026 Gane Index, September 2026 Edition. Asked as "EPM software" and as "corporate performance management platform", six framings each, to twelve models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/planning/corporate-performance-management/2026-09/enterprise This is the permanent record of the September 2026 Edition, published September 17, 2026 and superseded since. The current standing: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/planning/corporate-performance-management/enterprise/index.md **Standing:** OneStream (tied with Anaplan) leads with 30% of first choices; verdict contested. 47 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts. ## First-choice share | Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | [OneStream](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/onestream/index.md) | 30% | 7% | 54 | | 2 | [Anaplan](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/anaplan/index.md) | 30% | 28% | 57 | | 3 | [Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/oracle-fusion-cloud-epm/index.md) | 17% | 28% | 50 | | 4 | [Workday Adaptive Planning](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/workday-adaptive-planning/index.md) | 4% | 20% | 50 | | 6 | [SAP Analytics Cloud](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/sap-analytics-cloud/index.md) | 2% | 17% | 23 | | 8 | [Planful](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/planful/index.md) | 2% | 18% | 17 | | 13 | [Board](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/board/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 14 | | 14 | [Pigment](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/pigment/index.md) | 0% | 6% | 16 | | 15 | [CCH Tagetik](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/cch-tagetik/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 11 | | 51 | [IBM Planning Analytics](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/ibm-planning-analytics/index.md) | 0% | 39% | 18 | | 60 | [Vena](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/vena/index.md) | 0% | 50% | 18 | | 61 | [SAP BPC](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/sap-bpc/index.md) | 0% | 60% | 10 | Rank is by share of first choices among all 63 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels. ## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt - Claude Haiku 4.5: OneStream; alternatives Anaplan, CCH Tagetik, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, SAP Enterprise Performance Management - GPT-5.4 mini: OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM; alternatives Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning - Gemini 3.5 Flash: Anaplan; alternatives OneStream, Pigment, Workday Adaptive Planning - Perplexity Sonar: Anaplan, OneStream; alternatives Board, Drivetrain, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM - Grok 4.20: OneStream; alternatives Anaplan, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Workday Adaptive Planning - Mistral Small: Anaplan; alternatives OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, SAP Enterprise Performance Management, Workday Adaptive Planning - DeepSeek V4 Flash: Anaplan; alternatives Board, OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Workday Adaptive Planning - Llama 4 Maverick: no first choice - Qwen 3.7 Flash: Workday Adaptive Planning; alternatives Anaplan, OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM - Kimi K2: Anaplan, OneStream; alternatives Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, SAP Analytics Cloud, Workday Adaptive Planning - GLM 4.7 FlashX: Drivetrain; alternatives Anaplan, OneStream, Pigment, Planview Enterprise One - MiniMax M2.5: Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM; alternatives Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, Workday Adaptive Planning ## Sources the answers cite 65 of 72 answers came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models. Sites named in the most answers: - drivetrain.ai: 47 answers, 50 citations - cfoshortlist.com: 28 answers, 55 citations - peoplemanagingpeople.com: 25 answers, 26 citations - golimelight.com: 23 answers, 25 citations - onestream.com: 22 answers, 33 citations - thecfoclub.com: 22 answers, 22 citations - lupahire.com: 19 answers, 20 citations - oracle.com: 18 answers, 26 citations Pages named in the most answers: - https://drivetrain.ai/solutions/enterprise-performance-management-software (42 answers) - https://peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/epm-software (21 answers) - https://gbhackers.com/best-epm-tools-compared-2 (18 answers) - https://thecfoclub.com/tools/best-epm-software (18 answers) - https://onestream.com/blog/best-epm-software (17 answers) - https://lupahire.com/blog/enterprise-performance-management-software (16 answers) - https://intervue.io/blog/best-epm-software (14 answers) - https://golimelight.com/blog/best-epm-software (13 answers) - https://board.com/guide/best-fpa-software-for-enterprises (12 answers) - https://learn.g2.com/best-corporate-performance-management-software (11 answers) ## Warned against - Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM: 14 of 50 labels negative. "avoid platforms that demand heavy custom-model maintenance (e.g., Anaplan, Oracle EPM Cloud)" (MiniMax M2.5, negative prompt) - Anaplan: 16 of 57 labels negative. "Avoid defaulting to Anaplan or Workday Adaptive if cost predictability across thousands of users is your top priority" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt) - Vena: 9 of 18 labels negative. "Excel-based EPM Tools (e.g., Vena, Datarails) ... often lack the scalability required for large enterprises" (Mistral Small, negative prompt) - Workday Adaptive Planning: 10 of 50 labels negative. "can feel "lightweight" for global enterprises. Reddit threads note teams abandoning it for more robust tools like Anaplan" (Grok 4.20, negative prompt) ## Record - Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/methodology - License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, September 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/finance.