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Conventional business intelligence (BI) tools are often not available to decision makers and are typically designed for use
by trained business analysts. Learn about software-as-a-service (SaaS) BI tools designed to help non-IT people who struggle
with the task of mining Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and (...)
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SaaS BI Tools: Better Decision Making for the Rest of Us. ... Download <strong>SaaS
BI Tools: Better Decision Making for the Rest of Us</strong>. Comments: ...
Published:
2010-07-08
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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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... and planning, allowing them to eliminate the “spreadsheet chaos” that often plagues organizations that
have no formal planning and budgeting tools. ...
Published:
2010-10-22
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How can a budget administrator, burdened with the task of gathering data from hundreds of spreadsheets from all over the
organization, manage this monumental undertaking? Additionally, how to avoid using a costly packaged budget application that
doesn’t take the organization’s business rules into con (...)
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The Case for Spreadsheet Automation: A High ROI Alternative to Traditional Budgeting, Forecasting, and Management
Reporting. Source ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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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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It appears that several of Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) Solomon's truly differentiating traits, which could not have
been easily or quickly replicated by its seemingly more robust brethren products within the MBS division, will have been a
good enough reason for Microsoft to continue to bolster the (...)
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It appears that several of Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) Solomon's truly differentiating traits, which could not
have been easily or quickly ...
Published:
2003-09-03
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Demand for instant access to dispersed information is being met by vendors offering enterprise business intelligence tools
and suites. Portlet standardization, enterprise information integration, and corporate performance management are among the
proposed solutions, but do they really deliver real time i (...)
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Demand for instant access to dispersed information is being met by vendors offering enterprise business intelligence tools
and suites. Portlet sta...
Published:
2005-06-29
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While there is an opportunity for FRx to become a main pillar within the entire Microsoft BI product strategy, there is not
yet an overall cohesive BI/CPM strategy or architecture to guide the product plans to an integrated BI solution set. (...)
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While there is an opportunity for FRx to become a main pillar within the entire Microsoft BI product strategy, there is not
yet an overall cohesiv...
Published:
2003-12-05
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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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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: Improving Effectiveness through Best Practices and Technology. Source: Adaptive Planning.
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Published:
2011-04-07
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Corporate budgeting, forecasting, and reporting presents a formidable challenge to most companies, regardless of size or
industry. Companies that are able to address budgeting obstacles and improve their process will not only be rewarded with
more accurate budgets, more timely re-forecasts, and improved (...)
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Published:
2011-04-07
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Why aren’t most companies able to achieve exceptional performance given that they have standard budgeting, analysis, and
forecasting processes in place? It is because they don’t have a unified, integrated financial management process. Discover
the benefits of a unified approach and the technologies (...)
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Unified Business Performance Management: How to Streamline Budgeting, Reporting, Analysis, and Forecasting.
Source: Adaptive Planning. ...
Published:
2011-04-07
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Abstract:
Business performance management (BPM) applications, particularly budgeting, forecasting, and reporting (BFR) solutions, bring
high value to a mid-size company. But embarking upon a BPM initiative can seem daunting. There are many factors to consider,
including potential benefits, expected costs, etc. Rea (...)
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Ten Steps to Evaluate and Select A Mid-Market Budgeting, Forecasting, and Reporting Solution. Source: Adaptive
Planning. Document ...
Published:
2011-04-07
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Commerce One has partnered with Sagent Technology to add analytic tools to its enterprise e-purchasing application. Also,
Ariba has partnered with Informatica to add analytic tools to its enterprise e-purchasing application. (...)
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Commerce One has partnered with Sagent Technology to add analytic tools to its enterprise e-purchasing application. Also,
Ariba has partnered with...
Published:
2000-07-20
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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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Over 80 percent of consultants in service organizations consider spreadsheet-based business plan modeling inadequate. Weak
client–partner relationships reflect this inadequacy. An integrated business planning and modeling platform can provide deeper
insight into a range of strategic and operational iss (...)
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Redefining the Tools of Engagement: Integrated Business Planning. ... Download <strong>Redefining
the Tools of Engagement: Integrated Business Planning</strong>. ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Interactive Data Corporation is a provider of securities pricing, financial information, and analytic tools to institutional
and individual investors. The company supplies time-sensitive pricing, dividend, corporate action, and descriptive information.
However, as a result of global growth, Interactive D (...)
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... a provider of securities pricing, financial information, and analytic tools to institutional
... the challenge of finding a forecasting and budgeting solution that ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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A growing measure of business performance is financial performance management. Leveraging business intelligence (BI) to map
business performance goals requires integrating and consolidating information. Systems Union is embarking on a strategy to
triumph in this market. (...)
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A growing measure of business performance is financial performance management. Leveraging business intelligence (BI) to map
business performance g...
Published:
2005-07-18
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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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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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... But effective financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting can enable successful ...
and performance management—give business leaders the tools to take action ...
Published:
2010-07-08