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Although CPM (aka EPM) starts with strong financial management, it will eventually extend beyond financial planning to almost
all areas of corporate activity. Therefore, organizations choosing BI suites should consider both their financial management
tools and future integration with key business-area so (...)
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Although CPM (aka EPM) starts with strong financial management, it will eventually extend beyond financial planning to almost
all areas of corpora...
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2003-11-22
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Enterprise performance management (EPM) is an emerging portfolio of applications and methodologies with business intelligence
(BI) architectures and technologies at its core. (...)
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Enterprise performance management (EPM) is an emerging portfolio of applications and methodologies with business intelligence
(BI) architectures a...
Published:
2003-11-21
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New economic conditions are driving companies to become increasingly cautious about the near future. But focusing on improving
flexibility to dynamically account for change shifts focus away from budget accuracy—putting you at risk of falling
short of shareholder expectations. To achieve best-in-cl (...)
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Financial Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting: Managing in Uncertain Economic Times. Source:
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2010-03-11
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An optimal workforce creates a shopping experience that is profitable for retailers and satisfying for customers. However,
for many retailers, achieving optimal workforce supply across large and distributed operations is hampered by cumbersome and
inaccurate labor budgeting and planning efforts. Learn ab (...)
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... achieving optimal workforce supply across large and distributed operations is hampered by cumbersome
and inaccurate labor budgeting and planning efforts. ...
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2010-03-11
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Business analytics solutions are not all created equal. This paper from Focus Research discusses the key criteria a midsize
company should consider when choosing a solution and explains why IBM Cognos Express is a natural fit. (...)
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Transforming Spreadsheets: Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting for Midsize Companies. Source:
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Published:
2011-09-15
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Unified planning and consolidation streamline planning and deliver a faster close.Boost your business with epm software solutions.
Executive teams are under great pressure to maximize profitability, reduce costs, minimize risk, and improve stakeholder confidence.
To be effective, they need reliable, up-to (...)
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... To be effective, they need reliable, up-to-date financial and operational data for planning
purposes as well as budgeting, forecasting, analysis, and statutory ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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While planning is often seen as a time-consuming task, leading organizations have moved from the traditional spreadsheet-based
planning to implementing world-class planning, budgeting, and forecasting software, saving time, reducing errors, and improving
internal communication. This IBM white paper discu (...)
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Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting: Software Evaluation and Selection Guide. Source: IBM.
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Published:
2011-02-25
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Planning and budgeting are critical components of any company’s performance management initiative, as they are a means of
translating strategy into a coherent set of initiatives and provide a basis for objective assessment and alignment. But how
well are companies achieving this? Read this benchmark re (...)
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Planning and budgeting are critical components of any company’s performance management initiative,
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2011-04-07
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... pre-built industry solutions; SAP BusinessObjects Edge Planning and Consolidation for
budgeting, planning, forecasting, financial consolidation and reporting; ...
Published:
2011-07-25
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Mid-size organizations have been conducting their budgeting and forecasting through a readily-available, inexpensive, and
easy-to-use application—the spreadsheet. But spreadsheets fail to support complex planning processes, which involve multiple
people, require real-time access to data, and demand com (...)
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... comprehensive security. Discover how the Adaptive Planning budgeting
and planning application can help you meet these needs. Download <strong ...
Published:
2011-04-07
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Today’s finance executives must meet a growing number of complex demands and economic challenges to enable their company’s
growth, profit, and risk objectives. Performance management (PM) capabilities such as financial modeling, profitability reporting,
planning, budgeting and forecasting, and delive (...)
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... Performance management (PM) capabilities such as financial modeling, profitability reporting, planning,
budgeting and forecasting, and delivery of key ...
Published:
2010-06-23
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Although companies typically find it easy to accumulate data from their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, it often
remains unusable or unavailable to the decision makers who need it. Learn how deploying automated tools for report building,
planning, and budgeting, as well as other applications (...)
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... Learn how deploying automated tools for report building, planning, and budgeting,
as well as other applications such as business intelligence (BI) and ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Enterprise performance management (EPM) is an emerging portfolio of applications and methodologies with business intelligence
(BI) architectures and technologies at its core. (...)
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Enterprise performance management (EPM) is an emerging portfolio of applications and methodologies with business intelligence
(BI) architectures a...
Published:
2003-11-21
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Financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting can be an endless and arid process for business professionals. Spreadsheet-based
planning can prove to be confusing and unorganized, which only costs the company more time and money. IBM's Cognos software
can help not only reduce the time spent on planning p (...)
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Financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting can be an endless and arid process for business
professionals. Spreadsheet-based planning can prove... ...
Published:
2011-02-25
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The old way of thinking—you run a company through the once a year budget process—is on the way out in favor of new concepts
and system approaches generally described as "continuous planning." The practical implementation of continuous planning is
through rolling forecasts—frequent updates of financ (...)
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Continuous Planning and Rolling Forecasts. Source ... system. Download <strong> Continuous
Planning and Rolling Forecasts</strong>. Comments: ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Most companies are not operating at a high-quality financial management. Budgeting is slow, re-forecasting is infrequent,
monthly reports lack key information, and what-if analyses are incomplete or impossible. With Adaptive Planning, companies
can elevate their financial management by creating better co (...)
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... Budgeting is slow, re-forecasting is infrequent, monthly reports lack key ...
With Adaptive Planning, companies can elevate their financial management by creating ...
Published:
2011-04-07
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Line managers and finance staffs are frustrated by the inadequacies of spread-sheet based planning systems for delivering
useful budgets and rolling forecasts. A major problem is the disconnect between the operational elements of a business and
financial plans. What's missing is driver-based planning, a (...)
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... Learn how driver-based planning, empowers managers to do better budgeting
and, in particular, improve the accuracy and decision making usefulness of rolling ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Structured planning can make all the difference to your business’s growth. But are you using the right tools? Spreadsheets
may not be meeting your financial management and budget planning needs. Find out the risks of using spreadsheets as a planning
tool, and how enterprise performance management can h (...)
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Risks of Using Excel as a Financial Planning Tool. ... Spreadsheets may not be meeting your
financial management and budget planning needs. ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Prospects for the global economy remain precarious. But effective financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting can enable
successful decision making even in periods of unprecedented change. Dynamic financial planning enabled through five key elements—process,
organization, knowledge management, techn (...)
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Prospects for the global economy remain precarious. But effective financial planning, budgeting,
and forecasting can enable successful decision ma... ...
Published:
2010-07-08
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Current pure play business intelligence (BI) leaders offer the advantage of superior analytics and planning capabilities;
however, enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors are improving their analytic capabilities and accessibility. (...)
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Current pure play business intelligence (BI) leaders offer the advantage of superior analytics and planning capabilities;
however, enterprise reso...
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2005-07-14