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business performance management and finance

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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...
Tags: Shareholder, BPM, Business Performance Management, Compliance, Penton Media Inc., Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Financial Accounting, Software, Data Management, Finance
White papers 2005-11-01
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...
Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., BPM, Business Performance Management, Scalability, TCO, Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Roi/Tco, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting
White papers 2005-07-22
Better Information, More Shareholder Value
From the executive summary: ‘In a troubled economy, the investor is the king. Never before have companies been so committed to building shareholder value or shareholders so hard to please. CFOs searching for ways to gain favor with investors and analysts have discovered a powerful ally in Business Performance Management...
Tags: Shareholder, Business Performance Management, Penton Media Inc., Business Intelligence, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance
White papers 2003-09-01
Preparing Your Enterprise To Compete In The 2003+ Economic (And Compliance) Environment
This webcast asserts that current business models are impacted by a number of forces, including globalization, mergers, and acquisitions, e-business, global competition, fluctuating costs and shorter economic cycles. Executives need timely and accurate forecast information to drive the business forward. They should consider Business Performance Management solutions that can improve...
Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Business Performance Management, Environment, Compliance, Business Intelligence, Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Investment, Finance
Webcasts 2003-03-12
Driving Success: How Unified Business Performance Management Fuels Bottom Line Results
This webcast points out the issues, that are creating concerns like- excessive time spent on consolidating and validating data, not allowing time to provide insight, analysis, scenario planning and judgement. Reorganizations, trades, mergers, acquisitions and dispositions cause inaccurate communicated information. It tells that the role of finance is changing, and...
Tags: Business Performance Management, Penton Media Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Intelligence, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Investment, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
Webcasts 2002-11-21
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...
Tags: BPM, Business Performance Management, Consolidation, Taxes, Free Trade, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Software, Data Management
White papers 2004-10-01
Standard Setters: Driving Improvements in Business Performance
As the business performance management software and service market grows, it becomes increasingly important for developers to follow shared standards and for implementers to have access to best-practice information. The fledgling market for Business Performance Management BPM software and services is making a mark on how organizations operate. The rollup...
Tags: Financial, Performance, Business Performance Management, Penton Media Inc., Business Intelligence, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance
White papers 2005-03-01
A Personal Case Study: A CFO's Perspective on Business Performance Management
Understanding how finance and accounting processes have changed in the last 30 years provides an appreciation of the benefits of BPM Business Performance Management, as exemplified in exhibit. During the 1970s and 1980s, mainframe-based multi-dimensional technologies drove Decision Support Systems DSS, which created rough models for future planning. Functional managers...
Tags: Accounting, Business Performance Management, Penton Media Inc., Decision Support System, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Databases, Software, Data Management, Management, Finance
White papers 2003-11-01
The First Word
For Business Performance Management BPM to truly deliver on its promise, it needs to move beyond the finance function. Many world-class companies have undertaken BPM pilot projects centered on finance - primarily, initiatives that target budgeting, consolidations, and financial reporting - but few organizations have extended the software, processes, and...
Tags: Microsoft Word, Business Performance Management, Penton Media Inc., Business Intelligence, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance
White papers 2004-03-01
Upfront: Closing the Corporate Intelligence Gap (Book Review)
This article presents a book review which delineates the overarching vision of business Performance Management BPM, a vision of businesses collecting data through systems based on methodologies like the Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma and activity-based management; transforming that data into useful information; and then reporting it to users via the...
Tags: Business Performance Management, Analytics, Vision, Penton Media Inc., Business Intelligence, Balanced Scorecard, Financial Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Marketing Research, Finance, Management
White papers 2004-08-01
Performance Management's Growing Pains
How would one describe the state of Business Performance Management BPM in the company? Would one say it's in its infancy, adolescence or maturity? This paper, on the basis of a Business Finance survey, shows that in many organizations, performance management remains in its volatile youth. Companies are making clear...
Tags: Performance, Business Performance Management, Penton Media Inc., Finance, Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2004-04-01

Additional Resources

VT Group brings in Hyperion for business performance management software; UK-based GBP750 million support services and shipbuilding group will benefit from Hyperion Financial Management and Hyperion Strategic Finance.
M2 PRESSWIRE-17 August 2005-HYPERION: VT Group brings in Hyperion for business performance management software; UK-based GBP750 million support services and shipbuilding group will benefit from Hyperion Financial Management and Hyperion Strategic FinanceC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:17082005 LONDON, UK VT...
Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., VT Group Plc.
Research articles 2005-08-17
Penton's Business Finance Magazine and SAS Announce Call for Nominations for 2007 Vision Awards for Excellence in Business Performance Management
NEW YORK -- Penton Media's Business Finance Magazine([R]) and SAS today announced a call for nominations for the 2007 Vision Awards, recognizing excellence in business performance management. Executives interested in nominating their organization for may submit an application online at http://www.bfmag.com/visionawards.
Tags: business performance management, SAS Institute, vision
Research articles 2007-05-21
Strategic Business Performance Management
Winners of the 2002 Vision Awards for Excellence in Business Performance Management share their budgeting, planning and reporting innovations. The difference in approaches is the ability to more quickly automate and disseminate information. And finance actually adds more value by helping operations rationalize and synthesize what is most important. Average...
Tags: Business Performance Management, Penton Media Inc., Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2002-12-01
Hyperion and De Lage Landen Forge Strategic Partnership; Rabobank Subsidiary to Showcase Risk Management Solution and Best Practices for Business Performance Management
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & EINDHOVEN, Netherlands -- Hyperion (Nasdaq:HYSL), the global leader in Business Performance Management software, and De Lage Landen, a Dutch leading international provider of asset-based finance products to manufacturers and distributors of capital goods, today announced that they have joined forces to create a risk management framework....
Tags: business performance management, Hyperion Solutions Corp.
Research articles 2005-01-24
Finance & Performance Management Services: Helping Organizations Master The Finance Capabilities
Acknowledged as an industry leader, Accenture offers markettested solutions, services and assets in corporate finance, finance operations, enterprise performance management and risk management. Accenture helps companies across all industries drive down costs in their finance organizations, while creating finance and performance management capabilities that enhance control, improve risk mitigation and...
Tags: Accenture Ltd., Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Finance
White papers 2009-03-28
The Convergence of Compliance and Performance Management: Extending the Impact of Finance Across the Enterprise
Senior finance teams are laboring to comply with new regulatory regimens such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act amid a complex environment of rapid business change, uneven economic growth, and increased investor scrutiny of business results. In response, software developers have put resources into a compelling application area: performance management software -...
Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Performance, Compliance, Finance, Convergence, Finance Team, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
White papers 2005-01-01
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....
Tags: Performance, BPM, Penton Media Inc., Operational Planning, Business Intelligence, Business Process Automation, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Financial Services, Business Operations, Software, Data Management, It Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
White papers 2004-03-01
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...
Tags: BPM, Business Performance Management, Penton Media Inc., Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Software, Data Management
White papers 2005-03-01
Corporate Performance Management - What Finance Must Do to Move the Needle
Superior business performance does not happen by accident. Financial, technical, and intellectual capitals are marshaled with a singular focus on turning strategy into profits - and growing profits at a sustainable rate. The best-run companies are very good at spotting opportunities for growth, and they are very, very good at...
Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Finance, Corporate Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Policies And Procedures, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources
White papers 2004-08-01
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