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- Cognos Signs OEM Agreement with Lombardi Software to Embed BPM Capabilities in Analytic Applications; Companies Share Vision for Integrating Business Intelligence and Business Process Management for Corporate Transformation
- AUSTIN, Texas -- Lombardi SoftwareR, the leader in Business Process Management BPM software for Global 2000 companies, today announced a strategic OEM agreement with Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management CPM. Cognos plans to embed Lombardi Software's TeamWorksR within its prepackaged Analytic Applications to deliver...
- Research articles 2006-04-03
- A changing of the guard: new technology vendors crash the MSI Top 100, bringing added value to existing enterprise systems.(Cover Story)
- It has been some time since anyone dared to say publicly that we are witnessing the dawn of a new economy. Such words surely conjure images of the dot-corn era, which ended badly for almost everyone associated with information technology. But...
- Research articles 2004-07-01
- Does BPM Build Shareholder Value?
- This article highlights that Business Performance Management BPM-enabled companies have a better chance of spotting a potential earnings shortfall while it's still on the horizon, and that forward visibility gives them time to correct the deficiency or at least dilute negative results before the end of the reporting period. But...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Understanding Profits Through BPM
- Revenue minus costs equals profit. The equation is concise, simple and misleading, as most everyone who's analyzed profitability in detail can attest. Most companies have a pretty good idea of how much they spend on raw materials for each widget they produce. But those that dig no deeper into profitability...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- The Cream of the BPM Crop
- Companies have made great progress in improving their Business Performance Management BPM systems and methodologies over the past year. They've sharpened their metrics and enhanced their ability to tie those measures to their strategic plans. And they've leveraged BPM tools to develop a performance-based culture; increasingly, forward-looking BPM practitioners are...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Ironclad Data and BPM
- One of the most important pieces a manager can use to successfully solve business puzzles is up-to-date and accurate data. Unfortunately, many organizations continue to patch together their strategic plans using spreadsheet-generated performance information that is outdated by the time it reaches the desks of senior executives. The paper depicts...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- BPM Rollouts That Hit the Mark
- The most critical components of enterprise software initiatives; setting objectives, deploying the system and training end users, for example; often receive the least attention. Companies' primary focus is usually on deciding which system to buy. They believe that if they choose the right product, everything else will fall naturally into...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- BPM Scales New Heights
- Business Performance Management BPM technology, as deployed by its most successful adopters, has reached the final phase of what Gartner Inc. calls the "Hype Cycle." This conceptual framework charts the maturation of emerging technologies through five distinct phases: an initial appearance or "Trigger," a peak of inflated expectations, a trough...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- BPM's Lifeline for Capital Spending
- If someone ever owns a Swiss Army knife, they probably discovered more uses for it than they first imagined. Some tools are more versatile than initially meets the eye. Business Performance Management BPM software is just such an instrument. Most companies use it for budgeting and forecasting, but other applications,...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Project Management and BPM: Connecting the Dots
- With a Business Performance Management BPM system, finance executives can easily compare a project's performance with its original goals. And they can scrutinize their ongoing initiatives to identify those that continue to warrant funding and those that may need to be scaled back or terminated. While most organizations use dedicated...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- BPM Meets Employee Performance
- Companies that have achieved some success with Business Performance Management BPM systems sometimes find themselves eyeing an ambitious goal: tying employee performance directly to overall corporate strategy. This is the ultimate BPM challenge because it requires a degree of integration between financial and Human Resource systems that few organizations have...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Optimizing the Scalability/TCO Ratio in BPM Implementations
- Business Performance Management BPM initiatives can deliver extraordinary value to the business. The extent to which they become one rather than the other is contingent on making the right choices from the start. This typically results in faster response to emerging opportunities, quicker detection and remediation of poor performance, more...
- White papers 2005-07-22
- Progress in the BPM Marketplace Breeds Complexity
- Over the past year, the Business Performance Management BPM industry has grown substantially, creating new questions for buyers in search of the best solution for meeting their needs. The ranks of BPM software vendors are swelling. At the end of 2003, there were approximately 60 providers of these systems. The...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- The Link to Better BPM
- What makes a Business Performance Management BPM software initiative click? In a word, it's linkage. A BPM system can help a company strengthen the links between its strategic objectives and the metrics that support them; improve communication among its departments, for example by leveraging Web-based functionality; and tie individual employees'...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Expanding BPM One Pain Point at a Time
- Advocates of enterprise software initiatives often push for a quick, companywide rollout of their big new idea. Companies often go full throttle with Business Performance Management BPM software, but they may get better results by taking implementations slowly. According to most BPM practitioners who can look back proudly at what...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- How BPM Benefits Customer Relationship Management
- Like a person with poor sight putting on glasses for the first time, that's the analogy some finance executives use to describe what happens when a company leverages its Business Performance Management BPM software to analyze data from its Customer Relationship Management CRM tool. Gone is the fuzziness that usually...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- BPM Strengthens Tax Consolidation
- When one reviews all of the corporate functions in which Business Performance Management BPM software is frequently applied, the tax department doesn't even make a showing. At many companies, the function works at cross-purposes with the idea of becoming more transparent, while BPM is designed to enhance visibility throughout the...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Breaking Down Silos With BPM
- What's the route to maximum enterprise wide performance? Ultimately, it's the path of openness. That answer may sound like something you'd expect to hear from a mystical guru, but it's rigorously pragmatic. In an open enterprise, the various branches of the organization share information seamlessly with one another. Instead of...
- White papers
- Maximize Business Performance: BPM Implementation: Don't Let Failure Be An Option
- In the contemporary business era, it is ‘performance' that is one of the key success factors for a business enterprise. Modern corporations are using tools and systems to effectively measure, evaluate, and communicate their performance. Business Performance Management BPM is one such tool. BPM is the process of ascertaining the...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- The Other BPM: Operational Performance Management
- While in the past the primary motivation for companies to implement Business Performance Management BPM has been the bottom line with priority given to budgeting and planning applications and scorecards, business, finance, and IT decision-makers now are focusing on creating value by more effectively managing their operations and business processes....
- White papers 2004-03-01
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