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Special Reports are in-depth, timely research studies that address significant market developments, emerging technologies, competitive dynamics, or strategic inflection points that warrant focused analysis outside our traditional annual market studies and Research Insights series. These reports draw on the same objective, user-driven methodology and analytical rigor that define all Dresner Advisory Services research, while providing flexibility to examine important topics, vendor comparisons, or evolving market conditions as they arise. The result is relevant, data-informed perspective designed to help both technology providers and enterprise buyers better understand shifts in the AI, data, analytics, and performance management landscape.
The Office of Finance in 2026
The chief financial officer (CFO) steers the organization toward its strategic goals by enabling the financial backbone of the business. CFOs play a critical role in enterprise technology decisions, both by ensuring that finance uses appropriate current technologies and by helping guide internal IT investment across the business. This special report aims to assist the CFO with decision making by examining technologies used by finance organizations, with an in-depth focus on four areas: artificial intelligence (AI)—including generative AI and agentic AI—enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise performance management (EPM), and environmental, social and governance (ESG).
Carbon Planning and Analysis in 2026
Carbon planning and analysis is central to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs because it provides a structured way to measure and manage the environmental impact of carbon emissions.
Carbon planning and analysis measures and tracks an organization’s emissions across operations and the value chain. The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, discussed later in this report, is the most widely used framework and provides the baseline for emissions measurement and disclosure. Carbon planning and analysis operates like a financial audit for environmental impact, evaluating emissions by converting them into a common unit, the carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). This enables companies to compare sources, identify high-impact areas, and track progress against reduction targets.
The Pragmatic Middle: How AI Maturity Is Reshaping the Data Warehouse, Data Lake, and Lakehouse Landscape
The analytic data infrastructure (ADI) market has moved past the warehouse-vs.-lake debate. Our 2026 survey data is unambiguous: No single storage architecture dominates, and the organizations reporting the highest business intelligence (BI) success are not those that made the boldest architectural bet. The highest performers have made the most disciplined, phased investments, extending existing infrastructure in alignment with actual workload requirements, rather than chasing architectural trends ahead of organizational readiness.
Wisdom of Crowds® Market Reports
Wisdom of Crowds® Market Reports are comprehensive, data-driven studies that examine both the demand and supply sides of key industry and technology markets. Based on extensive surveys of actual users and buyers of solutions, these reports analyze adoption trends, intentions, priorities, use cases, and buying dynamics, providing a clear view of how markets are evolving. Each report also includes objective, inclusive vendor ratings derived from our rigorous evaluation methodology, offering transparent insight into how providers are perceived across a broad range of capabilities and measures.
Environmental, Social, and Governance Market Study 2026
This study shows that global ESG has retreated in 2026 from the progress it made in prior years, despite investor demand, regulatory pressure, and an increasing understanding of the connection between robust ESG performance and business success. Nevertheless, stakeholders’ insistence on precise and truthful disclosure has led to a growing emphasis on transparency in ESG reporting.
However, ESG faces many challenges and roadblocks, such as changing regulations and obtaining executive sponsorship for what many organizations consider optional. Successful navigation of these challenges depends on adopting a strategic approach and focusing on transparency, accurate data, and a commitment to measurable impact.
Wisdom of Crowds Enterprise Performance Management Market Study
Enterprise performance management deployment rates are high, systems are mature, and the buying audience sees tremendous value and additional growth within and outside of their organizations in 2026, according to the Dresner Advisory Services Wisdom of Crowds® Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Market Study.
Dresner's annual EPM Market Study provides a comprehensive assessment of usage and trends around EPM, systems that enable organizations to plan for the impact of various internal and external factors on its future performance and business outcomes.
The 12th annual study offers in-depth analyses on all aspects of the market, including current usage, deployment intentions, software longevity and importance, success with EPM, implementation and sourcing strategies, planning priorities, and the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in EPM.
AI, Data, and Analytics Governance Market Study
AI, data, and analytics governance initiatives support a wide range of use cases, according to the Dresner Advisory Services AI, Data, and Analytics Governance Market Study. Executive dashboards and KPI reporting, financial planning and analysis, and operational performance monitoring are the top three use cases, according to this year's survey.
AI, data, and analytics governance provides the oversight and operating framework of information-related decision rights, principles, policies, processes, people, and technologies that enables an organization to achieve its business objectives. Dresner's AI, Data, and Analytics Governance study, now in its fourth edition, analyzes end user deployment and sentiment around the governance, including its relative importance, business use cases, governance practices and policies, and solutions support.
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Research Insights are focused research briefs published throughout the year that examine significant trends, technologies, and management issues shaping the modern enterprise — from AI and emerging automation models to ERP, data, analytics, and performance management. Grounded in our independent, user-driven research, these papers provide clear analysis and practical context for executives, functional leaders, and practitioners alike. Each Research Insight concludes with direct, pointed recommendations to help buyers address the critical issues they are facing and make more confident, informed decisions.
Many Organizations Face a Governance Gap
In his book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” Stephen Covey, inspired by a speech by former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, coined the term “Eisenhower Matrix” to describe a tool to help improve productivity, prioritization, and time management. Covey’s simple four-box square—which uses an x-axis with sections labeled “urgent” and “not urgent,” and a y-axis with sectors labeled “important” and “not important”—helps with prioritization by categorizing tasks by urgency and importance
This concept also is also relevant for data and analytics leadership: Things that are urgent and important should draw the focus and attention of data leaders, who should then allocate resources to address the identified priorities. Among the top three challenges that organizations most often consider urgent—data quality, data integration, and governance of AI, data, and analytics—our survey respondents also frequently view data quality and data integration as having the highest level of importance (see Dresner Advisory Services’ analysis of technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence (BI) in the 2026 Wisdom of Crowds® Business Intelligence Market Study). And when it comes to spending plans, our respondents report that the category of data and analytics (which includes data quality and data integration) shows the second-highest number of budget increases (behind AI).
How Much Value Do Organizations Really Get From Analytical Solutions?
When deploying analytical solutions, risk of failure can arise due to mismatches between business requirements and procured functionality, the unexpected and excessive time and cost of customization, and challenges with integration complexity. For certain business functions, industries, organization sizes and use cases, results from implementation of packaged and accelerator/template analytical solutions vary dramatically. Because data leaders cannot assume value is guaranteed, they must be diligent in choosing the type and source of the analytical solutions they wish to deploy.
If You Have an ESG Strategy, You Must Consider ESG Software
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) is an evolving framework used to evaluate a company’s sustainability and ethical impact. It assesses how a company operates regarding the environment, its workforce, and its governance. Essentially, ESG comprises a set of standards that investors and other stakeholders use to evaluate a company’s non-financial performance.
ESG reporting primarily focuses on collecting and organizing non-financial data and integrating it with financial disclosures. This enables organizations to produce ESG reports that are consistent with and complementary to their financial disclosures and other regulatory reports. The goal of ESG reporting is to systematically assess the potential impacts of social and ecological factors on an organization’s financial health. It also examines how an organization affects people, the planet, and the economy, and how these factors influence its long-term sustainability and the environment in which it operates.
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