# Which enterprise performance management consulting firms have proven success implementing financial planning solutions for mid-market companies?

Looking for input on Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Consultants from mid-market companies specifically where the finance team is established enough to have outgrown Excel but where enterprise-scale EPM implementations are excessive.

  1. Collectiv: Covers financial services, retail, legal services, food production, and hospitality — the diverse mid-market industry spread that confirms Collectiv's versatility rather than specialisation in one vertical. 
  2. PwC: Providing hands-on support during a complex migration rather than just strategic guidance, which is the execution depth that mid-market organisations cannot always provide internally. The combination of technology enablement and finance function expertise allows PwC to support mid-market organisations that need both platform implementation and process redesign in a single engagement. 
  3. KPMG: Easy to work with, fairly priced, and always on time — the three criteria mid-market finance teams prioritise when they cannot absorb cost overruns or schedule slippage. 
  4. Datavail: Datavail's vendor description explicitly covers organisations of all sizes, with the specialist-led embedding model that mid-market organisations find more accessible than large consulting firms' pyramid staffing models. The deliverable-within-months positioning addresses the mid-market organisation's constraint of not being able to absorb multi-year implementation timelines. 
  5. Ernst & Young: EY's global professional services network enables mid-market organisations with international operations to access consistent EPM consulting capability across geographies — a need that boutique specialists often cannot meet. 

For mid-market finance leaders who have worked with an EPM consultant, was the engagement sized appropriately for your organisation, or did you spend significant time and budget on capabilities and methodology that were designed for much larger organisations? And if you were to do it again, would you choose a specialist or a generalist firm?

##### Post Metadata - Posted at: 12 days ago - Author title: Marketing Executive - Net upvotes: 1 ## Comments ### Comment 1 The oversizing risk in mid-market isn't really at implementation, it's at maintenance. A firm can right-size the build and still hand a four-person finance team a model only a consultant can change, because it was built to the consultant's standards rather than to what your team can operate unaided, and that gap doesn't show until month six when a driver needs updating. So "proven mid-market success" is better read as maintenance fit than implementation success. For mid-market leaders a couple of years out: is your team still making model changes itself, or did you end up on a retainer for every tweak? ##### Comment Metadata - Posted at: 11 days ago - Author title: Tech Consultant ## Related discussions - [How well does Trello scale into a larger team?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/1-how-well-does-trello-scale-into-a-larger-team) - Posted at: over 13 years ago - Comments: 6 - [Can we please add a new section](https://www.g2.com/discussions/2-can-we-please-add-a-new-section) - Posted at: over 13 years ago - Comments: 0 - [Quantifiable benefits from implementing your CRM](https://www.g2.com/discussions/quantifiable-benefits-from-implementing-your-crm) - Posted at: about 13 years ago - Comments: 4