Rising Star of the Year: SBI Honored at the Pigment Partner Awards 2026

SBI has been awarded “Rising Star of the Year – EMEA” at the Pigment Partner Awards 2026.

This recognition highlights a very tangible momentum: the acceleration of our Pigment expertise, the successful delivery of multiple client migrations, and our efforts to make modern planning more accessible through events, demos, and use cases.

This award is really about what’s happening on the ground: teams delivering, clients transforming, and planning becoming something people can actually use without compromising on rigor.

Why SBI is the Pigment Ecosystem’s Rising Star in 2026

The Rising Star Award celebrates Pigment partners who demonstrate rapid growth and measurable impact over a short period of time:

•  Delivery capacity

• Customer adoption

• Real business value.

For SBI, this award confirms a clear trajectory: scaling EPM excellence on Pigment and helping more Finance and business teams shift from slow, rigid planning cycles to collaborative, agile, and action-oriented planning.

Rapid Growth of our Pigment Team

In just one year, we have built up a whole team of Pigment-certified consultants.

Behind that number:

• Structured enablement (certifications, coaching, knowledge sharing),
• A strong delivery capacity,
• An ambition: delivering “advisory + implementation” at a premium level.

Helping many Clients Migrate to Pigment successfully

As a Pigment partner, we supported many organizations in migrating to Pigment, focusing on the three areas that usually make or break the outcome:

• Target model design (processes, dimensions, granularity, ownership),
• Data migration and reliability (quality, master data, historization),
• Adoption (simplicity, governance, planning rituals).

The result:

• Shorter planning cycles,
• Clearer assumptions,
• And, most importantly, a renewed ability to explain performance, not just report it.

Democratizing Modern Planning

Tech is only as valuable as its adoption. That is why we offer a variety of formats to make Pigment tangible:

• Use-case driven events and webinars,
• Business-oriented demos (FP&A, Sales Planning, Workforce Planning, CPG Top Line…),

• Afterwork events for finance departments.

Our goal: help teams move the conversation from “tools” to decisions.

Why Pigment, and why now? 

Today, Finance teams must be faster, more insightful, and more predictive  -often while using planning models designed for a much slower-moving world.

Pigment supports this transformation with planning that is:

• Collaborative (Finance + Business Units),
• Scalable (multi-entity, multi-scenario),
• Connected (data + governance),
• Action-oriented (simulation, drivers, continuous planning).

This is exactly what we strive to deliver to our clients: less friction, more strategic control.

What this Pigment Partner Award Changes? (in practical terms)

As a Pigment 3-STAR Partner, this award reinforces our focus on three priorities:

1. Scaling delivery further (capacity, methods, accelerators)
2. Expanding use cases beyond budgeting: continuous forecasting, Top Line, workforce, capex, scenario planning
3. Continuing democratization through events and content

Thank you

This is a collective achievement. Thank you to:

• Our clients for their trust,
• Our SBI teams for the execution and high standards,
• Pigment teams for the quality of the partnership and day-to-day support.

What’s next?

Wondering how Modern Planning with Pigment fits into your business?

We frequently showcase platform demos and real-world client experiences.

➡️ Get in touch to discuss your planning challenges and identify quick wins.