FP&A / EPM Software Evaluation Support

Helping You Choose the Right Planning Platform — Not Just the Shiniest One

Think about how much time your team wastes evaluating software? Here’s the math:

  • 7 vendors on your shortlist.

  • 1-hour discovery call per vendor.

  • 1-hour demo per vendor.

  • 2-hour scoping session per vendor.

That’s 28 hours gone — nearly a full work week lost to sales calls.

And in reality? At least three of those vendors were never a fit in the first place.

You’re spending your most valuable time talking to salespeople who fundamentally can’t solve your problems.

We’ve Been on Both Sides of the Table

After 20 years helping companies evaluate FP&A and EPM solutions: both as implementers and as vendor partners and we’ve seen how painful and inefficient the process can be.

We started Bright Point to change that. Our team has implemented nearly every major planning platform in the market: Pigment, Anaplan, Adaptive, Planful, Vena, Datarails, Mosaic, Cube and more. We know the real differences, not the marketing ones.

Yes, we’re a Pigment partner, and we believe it’s the most modern planning platform available.

But Pigment isn’t right for everyone. Some organizations aren’t ready for the level of flexibility and ownership it requires. Others may have simpler use cases or system constraints that make another tool a better short-term choice.

Our role is to help you figure that out: before you spend a month on demos.

What Makes Bright Point Different

You can find evaluation checklists and comparison matrices anywhere (ChatGPT can generate 10 in seconds).
But what those sources can’t do is save you time or provide deep technical insight into what’s easy, hard, or impossible in each tool.

Here’s what sets us apart:

  • Hands-on experience: We’ve built real-world models across every major platform , not just read the spec sheet.

  • Planning Constructs Analysis: We use our proprietary planning constructs (allocations, roll-forwards, cohorts, ramping, etc.) to gauge how each process would perform in different systems.

  • Technical Fit Scoring: We map your actual use cases against each platform’s architecture, constraints, and extensibility.

  • Evaluation Efficiency: We help you cut the fat, removing 2–3 vendors early and reducing demo cycles by 50%.

  • Objective Recommendations: If Pigment isn’t right for you, we’ll tell you and help you pivot before you lose weeks of effort.

How It Works

1. Discovery & Context
We start by understanding your planning challenges, source systems, and what “better” looks like for you.

2. Construct Mapping
We translate your use cases into our planning construct framework to identify technical complexity and fit.

3. Vendor Scoring & Elimination
We rank your shortlist based on functional alignment, flexibility, scalability, and implementation risk: and remove the ones that won’t work.

4. Guided Evaluation
We help script your demo sessions, guide vendor questions, and benchmark pricing: ensuring you get apples-to-apples comparisons.

5. Recommendation & Roadmap
You get a clear, prioritized recommendation with rationale and implementation guidance: not a generic “scorecard.”

Why It Matters

Your time protecting you from salespeople is worth more than any software discount.
Most teams spend 4–6 weeks in vendor discussions only to realize half their shortlist was never viable.

We can usually identify the top two contenders in under a week — and save you 20–30 hours of wasted meetings.

Let’s Simplify the Evaluation Process

If you’re in the middle of evaluating FP&A or EPM tools, we can help you focus your time where it matters most.
Sometimes that’s Pigment. Sometimes it’s not.