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SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

23Judge labels

0First choices

17Negative labels

11 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Best standing

0% in Corporate performance ma for enterprise buyers

Rank 94 of 95 in the mid-market standing

0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 83% of its 6 labels there were negative.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business85 of 88

under the label threshold

Mid-market94 of 95

under the label threshold

Enterprise67 of 68

criticized challenger

In corporate performance ma · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named SAP Business Planning and Consolidation for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Corporate performance management	Planning and analysis	0%	94 of 95	83%	6	under 10 labels · led by Planful at 29%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for SAP Business Planning and Consolidation yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated SAP Business Planning and Consolidation across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	2
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative15 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative23 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Legacy, cube-centric EPM systems (Hyperion, BPC) are considered Gen-1 EPM systems and may struggle with complex relationships.” Llama 4 Maverick · Corporate performance ma · negative prompt · hard negative

“older implementations of SAP BPC ... Avoid these if you want your finance team to actually use the tool.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Corporate performance ma · negative prompt · hard negative

“Legacy On-Premise EPMs (Avoid Entirely)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Corporate performance ma · negative prompt · hard negative

“you do not need the bloated, multimillion-dollar legacy EPM systems built for Fortune 500 conglomerates (like Oracle Hyperion or SAP BPC)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Corporate performance ma · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, over the 23 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Anaplan19 of 231Not in the top three

Workday Adaptive Planning16 of 230Not in the top three

OneStream15 of 233Not in the top three

Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM15 of 232Not in the top three

Oracle Hyperion15 of 230Not in the top three

Vena13 of 231Not in the top three

Datarails10 of 232Not in the top three

IBM Planning Analytics10 of 230Not in the top three

Planful10 of 230Not in the top three

SAP Analytics Cloud8 of 230Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named SAP Business Planning and Consolidation. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 15 of the 23 answers that named SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cfoshortlist.com10

drivetrain.ai10

darwinanalytics.com7

golimelight.com7

b-eye.com5

g2.com5

onestream.com5

peoplegoal.com5

reddit.com5

cyberpress.org4

Sixty-three of the sixty-three domain citations in answers naming SAP Business Planning and Consolidation came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

drivetrain.ai/solutions/enterprise-performance-management-software9

darwinanalytics.com/the-risks-of-embracing-a-cloud-epm-platform-in-the-age-of-agentic-ai7

golimelight.com/blog/best-epm-software7

peoplegoal.com/blog/epm-software5

reddit.com/r/FPandA/comments/1hcudv6/pros_and_cons_of_current_epm_software5

b-eye.com/blog/epm-platform-implementation-issues4

cfoshortlist.com/reports/epm-buyers-guide4

cyberpress.org/epm-tools-by-business-size-34

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as SAP Business Planning and Consolidation; a claim can dispute any of them.

SAP BPC 3BPC 2SAP BPC (On-Premise) 1

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