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October brings new ways to plan smarter and celebrate success. From AI-powered explanations and formula magic to the launch of the Pigment Awards and our upcoming Virtual Summit, it’s time to explore what’s new and what’s next. 🎉 Recover an Application from backup 🗺️ Optimize sales territories in Map charts 🔁 Model cyclical patterns with SIN and COS ❓ Explain your formulas with Pigment AI 🪄 Prettify your formulas 🏆 Pigment Awards are open for submissions! 🎟️ Pigment's Annual Virtual Summit is coming up  Recover an Application from backup  Quickly recover an Application from any backup to regain a stable version after tests or errors—without disrupting your live Workspace. Choose your backup, confirm recovery settings, and retrieve all data and configurations seamlessly for confident data management.  Optimize sales territories in Map charts  Select and edit data directly from your Map charts. Update Metrics—like ownership, ARR, or status—by selecting map areas or markers. Configu

The Pigment Awards recognize excellence and achievement in business transformation, AI innovation, and leadership across our community. Whether you're leading a bold project or making incremental but meaningful impact, these awards are your opportunity to be celebrated. Award Categories 🏆We’re excited to spotlight work across five distinct categories: The Game-Changer: A business transformation project that boosts performance, reduces costs, or improves the customer experience with lasting impact The Optimizer: A process optimization initiative that replaces manual or outdated workflows with efficient, scalable ones The Trailblazer: The most effective use of AI within planning or related business operations The Visionary: The most inventive use of Pigment to solve a non-obvious problem The Bar-Raiser: An individual contributor who consistently exceeds expectations and champions Pigment excellence  How It Works & Timeline 🗓️ Nomination Deadline: December 31, 2025 Winners

Changing seasons, evolving planning. Explore this month’s updates to accelerate decision-making, automate processes, and collaborate more effectively in Pigment. 📚 Discover Pigment's new and improved documentation site 🤖 Pigment's Analyst Agent is now available ➡️ Automate your Data Flows with scheduling 📈 Replace Dimensions instantly in charts and grids 👉 Jump-start data initialization from a Board 🔍 Streamline your dependency diagram view 🔐 Mastering Access Rights in Pigment: Best Practices and Troubleshooting tips 👥 Upcoming European User Groups 🎟️ Pigment's Annual Virtual Summit is back  Discover your new and improved documentation site  From early October, Pigment’s product documentation will have a fresh look and move to a new dedicated site! The user experience has been updated with a modern design and a streamlined interface to help you find what you need, faster.  Pigment's Analyst Agent is now available  The Analyst Agent - your intelligent, AI-powered teammate - is n

Pigment has made changes to its knowledge base. From October, the documentation has moved to its new dedicated site, while the Community is staying where you access it today. This article answers questions about the improvements and sets out what is staying and what is moving. See the TL:DR video here.  Why the change?We’ve introduced these improvements solely to improve your user experience. Which sections are moving and which are staying?Your favorite Community categories, listed below, will stay at their current URLs:Welcome to the Community! Community Hub Questions & Conversations Career Forum Pigment Academy Company News Insider Guides (to include Technical Tips, The Pigment Frame and Customer Resources) Only the Documentation and Becoming a Pigment Pro sections are moving, previously found under the Knowledge Base tab.  Will the content stay the same?The documentation has the same content, aside from some new articles about our latest feature releases.The user interface has a

We hope you're feeling refreshed from summer holidays and ready to tackle any upcoming planning cycles. This newsletter will help keep your Pigment skills and Boards up to date with August's latest product features and informed of opportunities to meet your peers! ✍️ Step up your formula-writing ✨ Create clearer approval workflows with Boolean buttons 👁️ Reduce disruptions with scheduled Snapshots 👥 San Francisco User Group - September 10th 🎟️ Upcoming European User Groups   🔐 Mastering Access Rights in Pigment: Best Practices and Troubleshooting tips 🤖 AI Agent demos for FP&A, SPM and SC planning  Step up your formula writing  Syntax guidance now appears while writing formulas! As you type, a help card guides you on a function’s required arguments.Plus, writing List Properties in formulas is more efficient than ever. Autocomplete now suggests List Properties of Dimension-type List Properties in formulas!  Create clearer approval workflows with Boolean buttons  Design workflow

This July, our product team have been working hard to bring you 9 new features to superpower your Pigment Boards. With summer flying by, check out our upcoming events and catch up on last week's Quarterly Product webinar for new feature demos and more. ✨ Automate prediction model selection with AutoML 📈 Duplicate widgets to any Board in your Application 📋 Structure your Boards with Spacer widgets 🔂 Sequential Data Flow: Data Flows just got smarter 🌅 Add Dimensions to Views without redesigning your model ☀️ Discover T&D’s Summer Releases 🔁 Try Data Flows and Sequences with T&D 👁️ View cell-level updates from a Table 🚀 Launch Nav Assistant from your Workspace 🌐 Quarterly Product Webinar - On Demand 👥 San Francisco User Group - September 10th 📣 Are you a fan of Pigment? Join our Customer Advocacy Program  Automate prediction model selection with AutoML  With just one click, AutoML tests multiple forecasting models on your time series and automatically selects the best. I

This June, there are several new product enhancements at your disposal! Check them out below and sign up for our upcoming Product Webinar on July 24th to learn about other useful features and those coming soon. 📝 Import data List-to-List 📈 Chart zoom for better exports ↪️ Use Top navigation in Sequences 🎨 Customize your Application icon color 🔒 Simplify security with access rights Dimension replacement 🚀 Deploy import configurations with ease 👣 Track last activity on Items in Lists 🌐 Product Webinar & Virtual User Group - July 24th 📣 Pigment Customer Advocacy Program: Get rewarded for your support 👥 Virtual Roadshow - July 29th  Import data List-to-List You can now import data directly from one List to another using List-to-List Import. Map source and target Properties with matching data types, add filters if needed, and run the import manually, with an Action button, or on a schedule.  Chart zoom for better exports  You can now zoom in and out on chart text for better rea

Your May newsletter is here, featuring the latest product updates, an important upcoming change to our learning hubs and upcoming events not to miss: ‼️ Pigment's Documentation & Academy hubs are moving! 📈 Make smart, ML-powered forecasts with Predictions ↪️ Navigate workflows with Action buttons 📣 Pigment Customer Advocacy Program: Get rewarded for your support 👥 Munich User Group - June 17th 🌐 Product Webinar & Virtual User Group - July 24th 📝 We need your help to feature in Dresner's report  Pigment's Documentation & Academy hubs are moving!  We're buffing our Metrics and aligning our Dimensions ready to launch new homes for the Pigment documentation and learning courses. We know these are incredibly valuable sources of information for you all, so we're making these experiences more powerful with fresh content, enhanced navigation and collaborative learning. The documentation is moving in a few weeks, then the Academy follows mid-July.   Make smart, ML-powered forec

A big week for us at Pigment, having announced some very exciting company news on Pigment Agents, give it a like if you're as excited as us. In other news, spring is here and so are these new product features! 🤖 Agentic AI announcement - meet your new team members  🔃 Streamline collaborative processes with Sequences 📋 Revamp your Dimensions with List Subsets 🗺️ Add USA states and preset map positions in Map Charts 📉 Updates at cell-level 🪟 Use a dynamic window in MOVINGSUM/MOVINGAVERAGE 🔎 Make data-driven decisions faster with Insights 🌐 Best practice webinar for Workforce Planning on April 2nd 🗽 New York Roadshow & User Group on April 23rd ⭐ Help us feature in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ 🎟️ Fancy attending RevOpsAF 2025 in New Orleans? Get 15% off tickets!  Meet your new team members - Pigment AI Agents  In case you missed it, we're thrilled to share a glimpse into the future of planning with Agentic AI!This week, we've announced our three specialized AI Agents designed

How do you compare to your peers? Where are they placing their budgets? Which skills do they value the most? We surveyed 2,500 leaders (70% director or above) on the most pressing issues in the profession. The headlines this yearDespite tighter budgets and economic uncertainties, opportunities for growth exist with smarter, customer-centric revenue operations.The risk landscape remains varied and complex - however, businesses are broadly more positive about the outlook compared to last year. Finance continues to evolve, with data and analytics playing an increasingly critical role. The growing skills gap presents a significant challenge which companies are trying to address. Most companies are 2-3 years away from being able to truly leverage AI, despite broad excitement and optimism. Those that do will have a real advantage.Drilling downThe report is split into four parts: a retrospective on the past year, predictions about the year to come, AI strategy, and the evolution of the role o

We kicked off 2025 with a bang and are ready to share even more exciting product features with you this month, along with a big announcement and upcoming events for you to join this year. ➡️ Pull formatted data to Excel 🎨 Expand your Workspace Color Palette 🔎 View and manage Snapshot usage 🔒 Secure your API Keys with IP Allow lists ℹ️ Manage new Applications' access rights inheritance 📉 Highlight top contributors in Variation Waterfall charts 🏆 Pigment Awards: shortlist announced ⭐ Help us feature in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ in 10mins 🌐 Product Webinar & Virtual User Group 🥐 Paris Roadshow & User Group 🗽 North American Roadshows & User Group 👥 Join Pigment Community groups and megathreads 💰 Sales & territory quota planning webinar Pull formatted data to Excel ​​With the new Include View Format option in the Pigment Excel Add-in, you can seamlessly transfer formatting from your Pigment Views to Excel spreadsheets, reducing manual adjustments and saving time

We’re thrilled to announce the Pigment Awards 2024, recognizing the achievements, innovation, and leadership within our incredible community. This is your chance to showcase how you or your team have driven change, optimized processes, and inspired others using Pigment!🏅 Award Categories:The Game-Changer: Business transformation project of the year. The Optimizer: Best process optimization initiative. The Trailblazer: Best use of AI in finance. The Visionary: Most innovative use of Pigment. The Bar-Raiser: Celebrating individual excellence.📅 Nominations are open now until December 31, 2024. Winners will be announced in February 2025, with prizes including a celebratory dinner or charity donation.📝 Submit your nomination now!Let’s celebrate the game-changers and innovators shaping the future with Pigment. Will you or your team be among this year’s winners? 🚀#PigmentAwards2024 #CommunitySuccess #Innovation

Dear Pigment Community,We are thrilled to announce the launch of our latest training path: Pigment Essentials for Modelers! This new path curates existing content to provide a smoother transition from the previous Essentials for Everyone to the Formula Writing path. It is designed to introduce new modelers to key modeling concepts, the Pigment interface, and essential navigational topics, ensuring a foundation for successful Pigment onboarding.What's Included?Pigment Overview: Workspace, Applications, Boards, Blocks Multidimensional vs. Linear Planning: Pigment vs. Spreadsheets Types of Blocks: Metrics, Transactions, Dimension Lists, Tables Building Your First Application: From importing a Transactions List to building simple Metrics and adding them to a Board Working with Widgets on Boards: Filter, Page Selectors, Totals, Sort, Pivot, Format, Export Formula Basics: Structure, Syntax, and why aligning Metric Dimensions is crucial Using Modifiers in Formulas: Introductory videos on each

Some exciting news for you - Pigment has been named a leading vendor in Dresner’s 2024 Wisdom of Crowds® EPM Market Study! The study provides information on enterprise performance management technology and services. Of Pigment, the study notes, “In its first year of inclusion, Pigment’s scores are generally above the overall sample. It is an Overall Leader in both the Customer Experience Model and Vendor Credibility  Model. It is best in class for technical support, consulting professionalism, and technical support and consulting continuity of personnel. It is positively rated in the Value / TCO Model (high value, low TCO) and has a perfect recommend score.”To download your copy of the report, click here.

Introducing Formula Writing: Unlocking Dimensionality and Calculations We've heard your requests for more formula & calculation training, and we're excited to announce our new Pigment learning path!   The training is split into two parts:Read & Interpret Formulas - Perfect for those who need to be able to create inputs and analyze outputs! You'll need just a couple of hours, and you'll be able to better define requirements and understand the calculations available to you.   Write & Test Formulas - Hey modelers, this one's for you! This new learning path will offer a deep-dive into the most helpful modifiers and offer real-world exercises to solidify your learning. These new learning paths are NOW LIVE in the Pigment Academy! Click below to get started:START LEARNING NOW

In case you missed it - today we’ve announced that Pigment has just raised $145M in Series D funding! The round was led by ICONIQ Growth, who also spearheaded Pigment’s Series C investment close to a year ago, with participation from Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, IVP, Meritech, Greenoaks and Felix Capital.  We go into some detail about what we’ve got planned next in this blog post. We would not be where we are today without all of the trust and support from our whole community. We have so much more that we want to do and will use the funds to continue driving innovation to fuel adoption of Pigment. Our co-CEO, Romain Niccoli, shares more details about what we have planned in the blog post - check it out! Eléonore Crespo, co-CEO, Pigment:“Our north star has always been to combine an exceptional product and customer experience, so that organizations can build the right plans and execute on them quickly. This funding puts us in an even stronger position to continue fulfilling this c