May 10, 2012 - (Free Research) Spreadsheets were once the only way for successful planning, analysis and forecasting. Not anymore. This webcast showcases an enterprise-wide, holistic solution that joins financial, operational and strategic planning with business analytics. Watch this now and learn how IBM Cognos can drive innovation and increase your profitability.
April 26, 2012 - (Free Research) <p>Read this white paper to learn how using a balanced scorecard can help executives to motivate employees to be more strategically productive and allows them to recognize performance drivers, identify problems early, and implement change to achieve strategic objectives.</p>
February 17, 2012 - (Free Research) Does your business rely on spreadsheets for performance management? Spreadsheets require labor-intensive manual processes and are highly error-prone. Learn how you can replace or augment your spreadsheets with planning applications that integrate easily with spreadsheets, leveraging the best of your existing investment.
October 31, 2011 - (Free Research) See how a plastics manufacturing company improved its planning capabilities by integrating its sales, operations and financial forecasts.
May 01, 2009 - (Free Research) As IT commoditization continues to increase audit and control activities, IT gets better at identifying and documenting the causes of significant outages. In an increasing number of cases, these ITIL efforts show the source of the outage to be action from the security department, and the BSM processes show the impact to be devastating.
April 10, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper describes the warning signs that an ERP system is killing a business, and suggests how companies can thrive with a new approach to business systems.
January 28, 2011 - (Free Research) Senior managers who have balked at the cost and complexity of adopting technology such as business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) should consider IBM Cognos Express as a way to adopt these technologies while minimizing time to benefit, deployment costs, and support costs.
March 26, 2012 - (Free Research) This paper discusses the convergence of dashboards, scorecards and business intelligence (BI) tools and the emergence of systems that incorporate these into a single, unified solution.
January 24, 2012 - (Free Research) Using enterprise reporting, an organization can progressively address immediate reporting needs, use business intelligence (BI) capabilities to acquire greater insight, extend BI to more users and prepare a platform for the future that includes the implementation of performance management.
March 21, 2012 - (Free Research) In this expert e-guide, you will learn more about building effective dashboards and scorecards and uncover 10 key elements for successful design.
November 16, 2011 - (Free Research) Download this white paper for deep insight into the release of Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 and the capabilities it has to improve your organizations business process management (BPM) needs. Read this now and discover the power of developing rule sets directly within the suite, the breakdown of each product and its capabilities and more.
May 01, 2011 - (Free Research) This paper discusses how traditional BI systems with disconnected capabilities fall short at monitoring, aligning and benchmarking performance. Learn how Oracle BI 11g is designed to help today's organizations drive profitable growth, change, and many other operational and functional performance goals.
April 17, 2012 - (Free Research) This Aberdeen report details why top-performing organizations are choosing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in multi-tiered enterprise resource planning (ERP) strategies. Read this now to learn about the many benefits of SaaS ERP, including elevated efficiency and visibility, lower costs and more.
April 13, 2012 - (Free Research) Discover how a gap analysis can reveal areas where the reality and long-term vision of your organization are diverging and provide the momentum needed to start adopting service management best practices. Find out how gap analysis can help your company identify what it does well and how to achieve its goals.
September 16, 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper looks at cloud-computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) technologies and what you need to know about these emerging trends.
January 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This document is designed to help firms understand their data conversion options. It outlines what data is critical and must be converted for compliance purposes and business continuity, what data is not critical, the relationship between data conversion and reporting, and what to look for in a new technology provider relative to data conversion.
June 24, 2010 - (Free Research) Against a backdrop of an increased use of software that is generally more sophisticated, flexible, scalable and easy to integrate than in times gone by, this research set out to explore the impact of having to maintain a plethora of different software solutions from different vendors in today’s cash-strapped corporate environment.
January 06, 2011 - (Free Research) In recent years C-level executives in many of the world's largest and most successful organizations have been forced to introduce a wide range of cost-cutting measures as macroeconomic forces continue to create a challenging and uncertain trading environment.
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