Budgeting & Forecasting platforms enable Finance teams to build, iterate, and maintain budgets, rolling forecasts, and long-range plans — replacing spreadsheet-based planning with collaborative, model-driven workflows. Core capabilities include driver-based planning models, scenario and what-if analysis, department-level budget input collection and consolidation, rolling forecast automation, workforce cost modeling, revenue planning, and variance analysis against actuals. The category spans enterprise CPM suites (Anaplan, Adaptive Planning/Workday, Planful, OneStream) and mid-market FP&A tools (Datarails, Vena, Mosaic, Pigment) that emphasize speed-to-value and Excel integration.