Enterprise planning at scale, involving thousands of users across countries and currencies, needs deterministic workflow tools, not AI guesses. The speaker argues that static, auditable systems beat inference-based tools that can hallucinate and hide their reasoning from financial auditors.
There's something about deterministic engines that are not just logic. It's also the mapping and the workflow and other things. You can't just vibe your way through a planning process that has up to 1,000 users working together. Some of our customers have that many in different countries with currencies and different GAAP rules. There's a lot of sophistication there. I'm not saying AI couldn't do it. When you have transparency questions about how AI gets there and a little bit of hallucination, making a lot of inference-based assumptions along the way, rather than working on static plumbing that has been established, I think I have way more confidence in the EPM tool getting to a more precise result that I can rely on than the vibe coded.
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