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Performance
Management's Quest for Optimal Simplicity
Companies need to turn a critical eye to their
ever-expanding sprawl of performance management systems and processes
before proliferating, poorly linked systems and applications reduce the
accuracy of financial reporting, undermine decision-making, and saddle
the organization with high administration and maintenance costs. So how
do you simplify this complexity? Start by asking your vendor these six
questions.
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Gartner:
Open-Source BI Set to Explode
Long regarded as a low-end option, open-source
products have been steadily gaining ground in the business intelligence
(BI) software market, according to a new report from Gartner Inc. The
technology research firm expects open-source implementations to grow
five-fold over the next three years.
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Deeper Dive Into ROI: Nano-Accounting for Higher
Profitability
While companies can derive important operating
performance measures from income, balance sheet, and cash flow
statements, such as return on investment (ROI) on total assets, total
net assets, and net working capital, these metrics apply to the company
as a whole. They don't describe the individual components that drive the
organization's overall performance -- namely, each product and service
sold to each customer. That's where value point accounting (VPA), a
low-cost way to leverage ROI information and thereby secure an advantage
over competitors who manage by gross profit, comes in.
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Will
Santa Tackle Performance Management Issues?
While you may be hoping for a book or an iPod this
holiday season, Big Fat Finance
Blog contributor Gary Cokins has some bigger wishes. His top gift
choice from Santa: that the marketplace will begin to view
analytics-driven performance management as being much broader than a
narrow CFO-driven approach to only financial reporting, budgeting, and
unconnected dashboard dials.
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Take
ERP Back From IT
Efficiency is a lost cause when organizations fail to
derive value from their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. What
is preventing maximum usage of ERP? Read Ventana Research's "Enhancing
the Value of ERP" in the BPM Resource Center to find out.
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Future
Guidance - A FSN & Oracle White Paper
An integrated EPM system can eliminate an
organization's dependency on spreadsheets for its planning and
forecasting process, provide more control and confidence in the process,
improve business predictability and the quality of guidance provided to
internal and external stakeholders. This white paper discusses the need
for better forecasting and planning - integrated Business Planning - to
improve the quality of future guidance companies give on expected
performance.
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RESEARCH & EVENTS
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ROI
in Business Performance: Avoiding BPM Blind Spots and Growing Your IT
Investment's Impact
When it comes to tracking the success of your
company's business performance applications, what you don't see can hurt
you. In this on-demand webcast, you'll hear how performance management
technology is capable of eliminating costly BPM blind spots. We'll
reveal the findings of a commissioned study conducted by Forrester
Consulting that examined the potential return on investment that
enterprises may realize by deploying Tagetik 3.0 performance management
software.
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