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Performance Management Alerts

Spending on BI and BPM Should Reach $57.1 Billion: Despite a weak economy, the business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) technologies and services industry continues to grow. [more]
Asian Companies Lagging in BPM: Business performance management hasn't caught on as quickly among Asia Pacific companies as it has among North American and European organizations, for reasons that throw an interesting light on Asia's unique business culture. [more]
Risk-Adjusted Performance: A Primer: CFOs can play a key role in developing a realistic, risk-aware performance management strategy to help their organization neutralize threats, exploit opportunities, and avoid nasty surprises. [more]
Improve Strategy Through Better Metrics: Organizations that design their performance management strategy based on what metrics are readily available and easy to gather fail to reap the greatest benefits from their information assets. [more]
Dashboard Basics Explained: Dashboards are a core part of any BPM initiative because they allow companies to measure and manage their performance. [more]
Can BI Help You Go Green?: Business intelligence software provider SAS Institute Inc is now offering a module that it claims will help companies measure and manage their environmental impact. [more]
Performance Management in the Public Sector: A new study on government and public sector performance management has found that many public sector organizations have performance initiatives in place, but the results are often hindered by poor management. [more]
Workforce Performance Management Market Expected to Reach $2.55 Billion by 2012: The market for workforce performance management (WPM) software and services is still growing, according to the latest forecast from market intelligence provider IDC. [more]
Balancing Risk and Performance: Managing enterprise risk still ranks low on finance executives' list of priorities. [more]
The Difference Between Scorecards and Dashboards: The terms scorecard and dashboard are often used synonymously, yet each tool provides a different set of capabilities, according to Gary Cokins, global product marketing manager for performance management solutions at SAS. [more]
Two Potholes on the Road to BPM: Although adopting and implementing a business performance management (BPM) solution is a wise decision for companies looking to improve performance and processes, there are still "potholes" along the road to successful utilization, according to Craig Schiff, president and CEO of BPM Partners. [more]
Forecasting for a Recession: As the economy slows it has become critical for companies to re-evaluate their profit forecasts. [more]
How to Make the Business Case for BI: Greater operational efficiency, lower costs, competitive advantage, better customer service -- the potential benefits from a business intelligence software initiative run broad and deep. [more]
Matching BI Tools to Users' Needs: Predictive analytics, dashboards, business query tools, scorecards, spreadsheets, OLAP, interactive reports -- with so many business intelligence (BI) tools available, how does a company choose which to deploy? [more]
Forecasting: Spreadsheets Still Rule: An efficient, reliable forecasting capability is no longer a nice-to-have feature; it's an indispensable strategic tool. [more]
BPM Evolving Into EPM: A survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in November 2007 indicated that 80 percent of corporate executives believed that an appropriate business intelligence (BI) strategy could really improve reaction time to market changes and customer service, yet only 15 percent thought that their company had adopted BI best practices. [more]
Ready for BPM Change?: Adopting change management concepts can help ensure a big business performance management (BPM) initiative is a success. [more]
Starting Out Right with BPM: Too many business performance management (BPM) software initiatives run aground because of poorly defined initial objectives, according to Sanjay Sehgal, principal in Archstone Consulting's CFO advisory services practice and leader of the firm's business intelligence group. [more]
Performance Management's Bright Future: All of last year's M&A activity in the business performance management (BPM) arena has paved the way for innovation and integration, making now a great time to evaluate and invest in a BPM strategy. [more]
The Strategic Value of OpEx: According to Anand Sanwal, vice president of corporate portfolio management and strategic business analysis at American Express, companies are "stuck in a time warp" when it comes to managing operating expenses (OpEx). [more]