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Decide with Confidence

Your priorities are paramount, but delivering them successfully depends on making the right decisions in a complex and uncertain business environment. Give yourself a platform to make the choices that will drive your business forward by taking advantage of expert analysis, peer-based best practices, and robust metrics and data.

Strategic advice

Sometimes, information alone isn’t enough. Our global team of more than 2,000 experts, researchers and advisors will equip you with the guidance you need to identify, evaluate and implement your finance and technology initiatives with accuracy and confidence.

Peer-powered insights

Don’t leave your success to chance. Rely on proven solutions based on the successful approaches of hundreds of finance organizations. Our best practice research, tools and frameworks help you to save time and reduce uncertainty in the execution of your critical initiatives.

Robust metrics and data

The right choices are those that are best informed. Prioritize your resources and solve problems effectively by framing your decisions upon robust data and analytics, in addition to a range of unique performance benchmarks and functional diagnostics.

Make Smarter Technology Decisions Powered by Analyst Expertise

Finance leaders have a central responsibility in enabling their organizations to exploit digitalization to drive innovation and efficiencies, but many struggle with technology decisions. Our comprehensive suite of technology expertise and analysis empowers you to respond to new trends faster, purchase the right solutions and optimize your implementations.

Gartner Hype Cycle®

Assess the maturity and adoption timelines of technologies to make more informed decisions on the timings of business investments, and weigh commercial benefits against risks more effectively.

Gartner Critical Capabilities 

Review competing technologies against a set of critical differentiators to gain deeper insights into how service provider offerings rate against common usage scenarios.

Gartner Vendor Ratings

Assess a technology provider’s strength and weaknesses, in addition to how well it aligns with your business objectives to make purchase, investment and renewal decisions with confidence.

Gartner Magic Quadrant®

Understand which providers you should consider for technology investment opportunities by gaining insights on their ability to deliver on your business requirements today — and in the future. 

Remove the Guesswork From Your Plans with Proven Finance Solutions

However meticulous your planning is, determining the right path forward is usually beset with risk. By harnessing proven strategies that leading finance teams have adopted to tackle the function’s most pressing challenges, our peer-led practitioner research will give you the edge in the planning and execution your own initiatives. 

1) We survey finance leaders globally 

Every year, we survey our client base of more than 1750 finance leaders to determine the most pressing challenges that are being faced across the function.

2) Best practices are identified

Our practitioners conduct in-depth research across the peer-set to identify the strategies that are addressing each challenge with greatest effectiveness.

3) Scalable solutions are developed

Through rigorous analysis, these best-practices are developed into transferable solutions that are scalable across functions — irrespective of company size and industry.

4) Our clients execute with confidence

Actionable insights, tools and templates provide our clients with the foundation to plan and implement their own critical initiatives with greater speed and reduced risk.

Gain a Unique View Across the C-Suite

Gain a powerful perspective of emerging challenges and opportunities across the C-level. Because we work with thousands of CxOs across every major business function, we’re uniquely positioned to help you understand critical business trends and their implications for the finance function faster and with greater insight than anyone else. 

Customer
Service & Support
Finance
Human
Resources
Information
Technology
Legal &
Compliance
Marketing &
Communications
Product
and R&D
Sales
Strategy
Supply Chain

Focus on the Activities that will Deliver the Greatest Impact on Your Objectives

Most finance leaders struggle to measure how effectively their function is performing, resulting in misaligned priorities and unfocused investments. Gartner Finance Score helps you identify the activities that have the greatest impact on your critical priorities, review their current level of maturity and develop an actionable plan for upgrading performance to accelerate your results.

Benchmark functional performance

Assess finance’s current level of performance across 37 critical functional activities, based on benchmark data from hundreds of finance teams.

Identify your finance
maturity gaps

Identify your performance maturity gaps and prioritize improvements toward the activities that are critical to your functional and organizational objectives.

Create a plan to
accelerate results

Establish clear action steps and timelines for advancing your functional performance and level of impact across each of your critical activities.

We used [Gartner Finance Score] at a time when a new CFO came in and we were defining our vision for 2020. This is a very practical tool that helped us assess Finance’s maturity and challenges—and identify opportunities to move forward.
Executive Director, Global Strategic Planning and Business Control, Global Beverages Firm

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