By Kara Batt, Neubrain Strategic Communications and Marketing Manager

Many state and local governments are nearing the end of the 7-10 year lifespan of the average budgeting and performance management software system, causing more and more key-decision makers to explore new budgeting and performance management technologies.

In fact, according to a 2013-2014 Gartner survey of more than 2,300 CIOs, business intelligence and analytics remain the top technology spending priority for the next three years.

In the past decade, budgeting analytics and financial intelligence and planning technologies have transformed from error-prone manual data entry tools to an array of advanced analytical, integrated, and sophisticated real-time budget management software solutions, improvements that are making software selection much more difficult.

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