Inplenion International
Opening the Doors to Harmonised Best-in-Class CPM & ERP Solutions

Switzerland, the beautiful landlocked country in Europe, is often known for its picturesque landscapes and fine craftsmanship. But if one looks beyond the chocolates, cuckoo clocks, and yodelling, Switzerland also earns a sweet spot on the world map as a powerhouse of technological innovation. The indicators are its tell-tale sign.

A nation of inventors, Switzerland has the highest ratio of European patent applications to population. The country is also home to some of the world-class traditional software companies as well as trailblazing start-ups—which conjointly drive the country’s aggressive innovation-driven ecosystem. The cherry on top, however, is Switzerland’s recognition by the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) as number one on Global Innovation Index for nine consecutive years. One can safely say that the playground of Europe is more than meets the eye.

Riding on the coattails of such a rich legacy, today, Inplenion—a homegrown boutique business consulting company from Switzerland—is carrying the country’s ‘innovative’ tradition forward and creating a name for itself in the global cloud services market. And in this pursuit, Jann Tadorian, founder and CEO of Inplenion, says that the driving force has been the company’s unique philosophy of ‘thinking global but acting local.’ Leaning on its surefire ‘glocal’ and multicultural approach, the company is quickly becoming a go-to name in the business realm for driving digital change through cloud-first operational and management excellence. Serving as performance architects, Inplenion offers excellent consulting services for public and private organisations that include CFO advisory, corporate performance management, enterprise resource planning services and business analytics.

Notably, Inplenion’s efforts are focused on enabling clients to unlock the full potential of their corporate performance management initiatives. “The need of the hour for CFOs is to have integrated financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and management and financial reporting, which eliminates the prevailing siloed infrastructure and builds a smart converged model with a single point of truth,” mentions Tadorian. Simply put, today’s organisations are looking for a way to coalesce the various elements of corporate performance management (CPM) and AI-driven analytics under one roof to drive business excellence. Especially, in the present business scenario, amid the global pandemic, such a well-rounded CPM approach would be a welcome deviation from the fragmented solutions in order to swiftly respond to the changing market situation and remodel a company’s business and financial processes more profoundly.

Catering to this pressing priority, Inplenion is paving the way for organisations to leverage the benefits of an ‘all-in-cloud, all-inone’ solution, which harmonises different business and financial processes, such as planning, financial close and consolidation, reporting, and analytics and helps in the execution of the holistic CPM seamlessly through a single, extensible solution.

The Proven Alternative to Disjointed CPM
Every company, whether it is a large-scale organisation with siloed legacy infrastructure or a start-up with a series of makeshift tools and software, wants to implement a successful, unified, and performance-driven digital strategy. But, more often than not, their ideas remain far from being fulfilled because of their siloed teams’ lapse in seeing the ‘complete picture.’ This is the reason most of the hefty digital transformation projects fail even after implementing the best-ofbreed tools. “The solution lies in the simplicity of the change management process, which can only be achieved when an organisation sees through the clutter—when there is oneness,” says Tadorian. And this is precisely where Inplenion can showcase its prowess with outstanding business advisory and consulting services. Inplenion acts as the conduit to help organisations realise their gaps, find effective means to bridge them, and make them look and feel like ‘one.’

At the forefront of making this possible, Inplenion has partnered with OneStream—a leading-edge software company. Alongside the crucial advisory services, Inplenion helps its clients implement the OneStream CPM solution, which perfectly matches Inplenion’s goal to provide cohesive business and management excellence. The market-leading CPM solution unifies and simplifies financial consolidation, planning, reporting, analytics, and financial data quality for even the most complex organisations. Deployed via the cloud OneStream’s unified platform enables organisations to modernise finance, replace multiple legacy applications, and reduce the total cost of ownership of financial systems. OneStream also unleashes the finance and business management teams to spend less time on data integration and system maintenance, and more time driving business performance. “With OneStream, clients can easily derive the value of their transformation projects and quickly meet the changing needs of finance and management processes,” asserts Tadorian.

To illustrate, Tadorian shares a perfect case in point. In one instance, a large carve-out of a German media, education, and services group with decentralised solutions wanted to resolve the challenges of disjointed functionalities. They had separate systems and methods to measure performances causing difficulty in planning, tracking, and monitoring the corporate performance. Inplenion catered to their need for a new CPM platform that would harmonise the finance processes and corporate performance management. Together with that, the company also advised its client to establish cross-regional teams that would host periodic conversion meetings and identify key people from each region to accelerate the adoption of the new solution and offer strong support services.

“This was key to harmonise the finance processes & group chart of accounts, and the P&L statement, which would ultimately lead to redefining how the company’s business performance is measured holistically across all regions,” mentions Tadorian.

And, when it comes to helping an organisation glean on end-to-end ERP processes, Inplenion’s partnership with Oracle Netsuite ERP, along with its years of experience in implementing Oracle applications, comes in handy. Leveraging this proficiency, Inplenion creates a resource & performance-driven framework that aids the client to incorporate best practices and standardised operations across their organisation, thereby minimising closing times while providing timely insights to key stakeholders.
Together, Netsuite’s cloud-based, mobile-enabled ERP systems and OneStream’s cloud-driven CPM software aptly complement Inplenion’s ‘all-in-cloud’ and “bet-in-cloud” strategy. Over the next couple of years, Inplenion aims to achieve greater harmonisation of ERP and CPM within organisations in rapidly changing environments. In addition, Tadorian is enthusiastic about blending the elements of automation and AI into its ERP and CPM offering to support offices of finance and accounts, help provide real-time actuals and enhance decisionmaking.

Leading the Charge of Harmonised Growth Globally

In terms of harmonisation, even within its own organisation, Inplenion plans to combine the power of its onshore, nearshore, and offshore hubs—thereby cutting through a multitude of jurisdictions of different countries that it is currently operating in. This way, Inplenion would not only be able to cater to clients of different sizes and industries across the globe with cost-efficient pricing but also make the whole project execution as seamless as possible.

Much of the credit behind such forward-thinking business values goes to its leader, Tadorian, who—as a visionary—is always striving to be at the helm of all industry and technology trends. It is his innovative business acumen that steers his company’s services to be on a par with some of the major system integration players in the world. “Being a member of Switzerland’s entrepreneur group, I have to stay in close quarters with the budding start-ups and identifying next business models or technologies. Thus, I am always in the mindset of knowledge, getting first-hand reports of the interesting developments happening in the technology and business domain,” mentions Tadorian. These insights further help his company support clients in navigating their most complex business setbacks. Having recently celebrated its 15th anniversary and with many more milestones to follow, Tadorian and his team of experts are confident that they will continue guiding organisations to make giant waves in the digital business continuum.