09/07/2025
📊 Still juggling budgets in 20 versions of Excel? 2025’s volatile markets demand faster moves.
In the new Don’t Panic—It’s Just Data episode, host Petrie connects with Gore (Product Mgmt, ) and Rufin (Head of Data & Analytics, ) on why finance teams are embedding planning directly inside Power BI & Qlik dashboards—and ditching standalone EPM tools.
🚀 Highlights you’ll hear:
• From “read-only” BI to two-way collaboration—write-back, scenarios, real-time edits
• How integrated XP&A kills spreadsheet silos and shrinks cycle time
• Governing data pipelines once, then re-using them for forecasts, budgets, workforce plans
• Total cost of ownership: why adding a few write-back licenses often beats a separate EPM stack
🔍 Question for finance & data leaders:
What’s the biggest brake on your 2026 planning agility?
1️⃣ Excel version-control chaos
2️⃣ Disconnected BI & EPM tools
3️⃣ Limited user access/licensing
Drop a note below 👇
🔗 Full episode link in the comments.