GranularWhat is Enterprise Performance Management?
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) connects financial goals with the models and processes used to understand business performance. Its wider scope can include budgeting, forecasting, consolidation and management reporting. Granular focuses on the financial modelling and decision layer: profitability, cost allocation, transfer pricing, simulation and goal seek.
Understand performance beyond the report
A report may show that a margin changed. A financial model connects that result to revenue, costs, allocation drivers and business rules. Finance can examine performance by customer, product, business unit, entity or region, then compare scenarios using the same model logic. This is particularly useful when shared costs and intercompany flows make a simple view of revenue and direct cost incomplete.
Use AI to help build the model
GranularIQ helps teams describe requirements in a chat-based interface. Its specially trained AI proposes modelling approaches and helps define explicit rules. Those rules support deterministic calculations: the same inputs and rules produce the same results. Finance can review proposed drivers and relationships before running a model.
An EPM example: explain a business unit’s margin
Start with revenue and direct costs, allocate shared-service costs using relevant drivers, then calculate the business unit’s contribution. Next, simulate changes in input costs or operating assumptions. A goal-seek exercise works backwards from a financial target to explore candidate scenarios. The objective is to make the drivers and consequences of performance decisions visible.
Fit the existing enterprise landscape
Granular is built in Docker containers for flexible deployment. Customers can align the modelling layer with SAP, Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric or their preferred infrastructure. The deployment choice should follow the customer’s architecture and data requirements.
Questions Finance teams ask
Is Granular a complete budgeting and consolidation suite?
Granular’s focus is financial modelling, profitability, allocations, transfer pricing, simulation and AI-assisted model creation. Discuss budgeting, consolidation or other requirements with the team rather than assuming every EPM capability is included.
How does EPM differ from a dashboard?
Dashboards present measures. EPM models connect measures to financial rules, drivers and processes, making it possible to investigate results and simulate decisions.
Where does intelligent finance fit?
Intelligent finance brings model-based reasoning and AI assistance into finance workflows. In Granular, that includes proposing model options and explaining the financial logic behind calculations.