Rick W / Wednesday, May 6, 2026 / Categories: Business Intelligence Single source of truth in planning: why IP&A often fails in practice Many organizations agree on the goal: one platform, one data model, one set of numbers. Then quarter-end arrives, a forecast update is due, and the “single source of truth” quietly becomes a chain of exports, manual reconciliations, and spreadsheet patches. The BARC Score Integrated Planning & Analytics (IP&A) 2026 describes this gap clearly: many organizations […] Previous Article Successful Delivery of AI/GenAI: Who Is Doing the Work? Next Article Agentic AI in IP&A: What gets automated first and what should stay manual Print 1 Tags: ModeForecastModeldata