Market Trends of Enterprise Performance Management Industry
BFSI Sector is Expected to Account for Major Market Share
- Later the global financial crisis, the banks have become very conscious about the measure that helps them reduce risk on their balance sheet and restructure their cost bases by leveraging economic prosperity and liquidity. However, many banks remain vulnerable to customers' financial circumstances, such as loan debts added with the commercialization of banks, giving rise to cut-throat competition.
- Thereby, companies in the BFSI sector are increasingly deploying EPM applications to streamline financial planning and budgeting processes. Swedish and Thai banking have started implementing progress management solutions into their core operations.
- Also, the introduction of cloud-based bespoke solutions has enabled the broader deployment of EPM solutions across the industry. For instance, according to the update issued by Oracle Corporation for SAP customers in July 2022, Oracle Exodata Database Machine consolidated SAP and non-SAP Databases into private Database Cloud form, handling the data almost ten times faster or more. This helps in the circulation and utilization of storing the data for further analytics in SAP and other Oracle tools for optimizing system performance.
- Similarly, Oracle offers SAP S/4HANA Finance, an ERP financial management and accounting software solution that covers everything from business planning and analysis to treasury management and joint finance operations. The integration of the cloud helps access performance-related information remotely.
- Additionally, the global COVID-19 pandemic causing the disruption in business operations in the BFSI sector is expected to enable companies to deploy EPM software for business impact analysis. Moreover, with various companies working remotely, the EPM software provides much-needed support to maintain business requirements. For instance, Oracle Hyperion EPM evaluates the user environment and determines the needs to be tuned to optimize the experience of remote users.
Asia Pacific is Expected to be the Fastest-Growing Market
- The market growth is expected to be driven by the development of the end-user segments. The retail and E-commerce vertical is expected to hold the largest market size in the region during the forecast period.
- As emerging countries such as India in the region with growing regulatory controls, rapid and highly competitive business across the industries has increased the need for the guidance of business strategies added to the unprecedented and unrelenting pressure on finance professionals is driving the demand for EPM solutions.
- According to The Economic Times, in April 2022, Mesh, Inc, an Indian start-up providing Performance Management software, raised USD 11 million in funding led by RTL Group for plans to expand across the Asia Pacific and the United States. Similarly, in June 2021, the company raised USD 5.1 million as a part of its seed round. The company also reported its revenue to have grown 16 times since its foundation.
- Also, the growing 5G networks are expected to aid the remote deployment of such software in end-user segments like banking, leveraging the cloud iterations of the software and related tools utilizing the outcomes. According to gadgets360.com, in August 2022, the website reported that the Department of Telecom confirmed 13 Indian cities to get high-speed internet services the following month as it issued spectrum assignment letters to the bidders for radio wave channels.
- Besides, China's government has launched the 'Made in China 2025' initiative to improve the country's manufacturing competitiveness. The goal of upgrading the nation's manufacturing capacity is expected to lead to higher deployment of software like EPM to bolster informed growth and decision-making, leveraging other benefits for managing businesses effectively.