Pigment Planning® Planning
Pigment emerged as a platform aimed at reinventing the enterprise planning software space. Traditional tools were often criticized for being inflexible, overly complicated, or not sufficiently transparent, and Pigment set out to address these issues.
Pigment’s emergence in the enterprise planning space showcased the growing need for more agile, transparent, and collaborative planning tools. Businesses are constantly evolving, and having the right tools can make a significant difference in how effectively they navigate their growth and challenges.
For Finance
Make the flip to scale your strategic finance team’s playbook: spend more time analyzing data than preparing it.
For HR
Align teams on your HR plans with a unified user experience.
For Sales
Gather all your data in one place, build flexible models, and unlock revenue growth.
Executives
Create a single source of truth for your organization and drive better business strategy.
Key features and highlights of Pigment:
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Flexibility
Pigment allows for easy modeling, letting users modify and adapt their plans quickly. This flexibility ensures that businesses can react promptly to changing circumstances.
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Transparency
Pigment emphasizes transparency in the planning process, which allows for more trust and understanding between stakeholders. Changes to models are traceable, ensuring everyone knows who did what and why.
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User-friendly
With its intuitive interface and design, Pigment aims to be more accessible than some traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools or bespoke Excel models, which can be complex and require specialized knowledge.
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Collaboration
Multiple users can work on Pigment simultaneously, promoting a collaborative approach to planning. This feature ensures that teams across different departments or geographies can align their plans effectively.
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Scalable
Whether for startups or established enterprises, Pigment is designed to handle various scales of operation. The platform can handle vast datasets and complex modeling.
For Finance Teams & CFOs
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Collaborative budget planning
Remove the bottlenecks… Let each cost center directly input their numbers into a dedicated centralised app, with in-built security.
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Budget variance analysis
Build stunning dashboards and structured variance identification to align everyone on your actuals versus forecast.
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Rolling forecast
Import your historical data in seconds and build your forecast on top of it.
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P&L, balance sheet & cashflow
Model and foecast any financial statements directly within Pigment
Remove the constraints on your models:
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Natural Syntax
Use easy-to-read formula syntax, with references to objects not cells
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Multidimensional
No more duplicates or versions of spreadsheets and rows
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Real-time updates
Connect all your data for live calculations across all your models
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Easy to explore
Intuitively dig into formulae in two clicks to see the dependencies and assumptions
For HR & Workforce Teams
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Headcount planning
Align your business strategy with your revenue objectives, salesforce capacity, and hiring plans.
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Recruiting & Finance Reconciliation
Bridge the gap between Finance and Talent Acquisition.
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Incentive Compensation
Define commissions based on a variety of factors, and let your teams visualise their performance against it.
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Strategic Workforce Planning
Establish a strategy to ensure the organisation has the right mix of talent, technologies and employment models to achieve it’s goals.
Streamline your workforce planning:
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Org Chart
Visualise and model any hierarchy of your organisation
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One-click scenarios
Run what-if scenarios in minutes to assess the cost and impact of your workforce changes.
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Workflows
Easily set up workflows and notify your team when a new request is made.
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Direct integrations
Connect your HRIS, ATS and ERP data in a single platform
For Sales & Revenue Teams
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Sales & GTM capacity planning
Analyze sales performance by segment, product and vertical, and better forecast future bookings thanks to our integration with all leading CRM and HRIS systems.
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Account scoring & segmentation
Plan and model account segments at the market, account, or product level. Drive real-time insights into where you should focus your sales resources.
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Territory & quota planning
Easily manage complex territory hierarchies, maximize territory coverage and set timely and equitable quota for your team. Feed quota data back into your sales forecast.
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Sales compensation & incentives
Plan and manage compensation to drive better business outcomes. Truly incentivize sales activity by building personalized compensation plans.
Remove the constraints on your models:
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Natural Syntax
Use easy-to-read formula syntax, with references to objects not cells
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Multidimensional
No more duplicates or versions of spreadsheets and rows
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Real-time updates
Connect all your data for live calculations across all your models
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Easy to explore
Intuitively dig into formulae in two clicks to see the dependencies and assumptions
For Executives
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Get a 360° view of your business
From marketing to sales and HR, zoom in and out of all your business functions instantly to help you make the best decisions.
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Make ‘no surprises’ the new normal
Understand the impact of your decisions. Instead of outsourcing questions to modelers, Pigment’s platform lets you build your own pessimistic and optimistic scenarios, and to compare actual versus forecasted figures.
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Get everyone on the same page
Create a single system of record and build a shared understanding of the numbers that matter.
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Get answers to your questions in minutes
All your metrics are connected in real-time across your models so you can trust your forecasts and plans.
Make your team more effective:
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20% preparing data
Automatically import data, clean and enrich from all your business apps in a few clicks.
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80% analyzing data
Pigment frees up bandwidth so your team can focus on what matters: gathering insights to make better decisions.
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100% fewer errors
Leave behind manual data entry and complex formulas to embrace object-based modeling.