August 27, 2009
BPM Express is a monthly e-mail newsletter that covers developments and trends in the market for business performance management systems and services.

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Improving Process Improvement: How BPM Can Amp Up Returns
Business performance management (BPM) can significantly improve the effectiveness of process improvement initiatives and boost ROI. This is because the key to preventing process improvement failure -- and the primary focus of BPM -- is good information.

How Do You Plan and Measure Performance Without Rules?
Is your company finding it hard to make decisions? To plan and measure performance in this unpredictable business environment, companies must use scenario planning that incorporates many previously unthinkable scenarios.

Best-of-Breed Software Guide: BPM Tackles the Planning Crisis
This has been a tough year for software companies, but business performance management (BPM) vendors are faring better than most, as companies cast about for ways to manage cost and risk and optimize profitability.

People-Focused Management Leads to Higher Profits
In this interview, Art Barter, CEO of Datron World Communications, shares how his approach to management, which de-emphasizes the numbers and instead focuses on the company and its people, has helped to build a highly profitable business.

Performance Management: Not as Scary as It Sounds
Does the idea of taking on a performance management project intimidate you? Never fear. Read Ventana Research's white paper "The Right View of Performance Management: Reasonable scope, incremental change and dashboards provide tangible benefits" in the BPM Resource Center to alleviate your worry.

BPM Summit Presentation -- BPM at Risk: How to Increase Your Odds of Success
The 6th Annual BPM Summit brought together some of the business world's foremost practitioners to explore the transformational role of finance in the enterprise. If you missed the live event, you can still enjoy access to the audio and slide shows from the keynote presentations at our on-demand archive.


RESEARCH & EVENTS
The Total Economic Impact of Performance Management Solutions: A Forrester Study of Tagetik 3.0 ROI and Payback Period
Join Senior Forrester Consultant Sadaf Roshan Bellord and Tagetik's VP and General Manager Mark Corsetti for an in-depth discussion of this study's Total Economic Impact (TEI), and discover how your organization may benefit from implementing Tagetik 3.0 performance management software. We'll review the research effort and identify the key drivers and best practices for implementation and adoption of Tagetik 3.0 and quantify the resulting cost savings.

Budgeting & Reporting with Microsoft Technology
Attend this webinar to learn how you can leverage Microsoft's technology to deploy a state-of-the-art budgeting & reporting solution that can help you understand the past while developing more timely and accurate long range plans, annual budgets, and mid-year forecasts that reflect today's changing market dynamics.

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