FSN: Cartesis webcast underlines need to integrate BPM processes and data

Cartesis webcast underlines need to integrate BPM processes and data

12th December 2005
A Cartesis webcast attended by FSN last week highlighted the need for decision makers to take a more strategic view of their investment in business performance management and business intelligence. Keith Gile, a Forrester Research analyst, told the audience that historically there has been too much emphasis on collecting and reporting data as opposed to aligning the data with the relevant processes so that it can be shared.

Forrester's Keith Gile, speaking at the webcast entitled, "Enabling Performance Management Beyond Finance - BPM or BI" argued that the time had come for a different approach to performance management. "We've been good at parts of BPM and BI but so many decision makers in an organisation are unsupported," he said. "If we are going to measure performance we need to align data and processes with the applications to ensure that decision makers up and down the organisation have the information they need. We are great at manipulating data but how many people use it in their jobs?" he challenged.

Cartesis' Trevor Walker pointed to the rapid developments in compliance and regulation that is driving the growth in end user appetite for information that helps them to do their job better. Providing systems scalability and affordability by leveraging Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 platform is a part of the Cartesis' answer but so is having an integrated an application suite that allows the data and performance management processes to be combined. This has been one of the drivers behind Cartesis' recently announced BPM Extended Suite.

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