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Performance Management Framework – Part III

This article is the third in the series for Financial Systems News (FSN) concerning the implementation of a performance management framework focused on helping organisations plan, resource, execute and monitor corporate strategy.

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Is your Excel reporting really communicating the vital messages you want to convey?

It’s a familiar problem – all too often management reporting in Excel is a dull collection of figures assembled in lifeless columns across the page. Yet with the deft use of the ‘native’ graphics capabilities within Excel, management reporting can be turned from an inert and ineffective medium into a pointed and attention grabbing tool, focussed on the key performance indicators and management issues of the day.

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UNIT4 gives FSN an update on its plans to "disrupt" the performance management software market

Last week UNIT4, the owner of two key financial management packages, Agresso and CODA announced plans to “disrupt” the performance management software market in 2012 with what it says is a completely new approach to delivering business analytics, i.e. turnkey, rapidly deployed, business performance solutions available on a pay-as-you-use basis from a dedicated app store. Gary Simon, FSN’s managing editor caught up with Ton Dobbe, Vice president, Product Marketing for UNIT4, to discover exactly what UNIT4 has in mind.

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McAfee achieves an ROI of 400% with Anaplan's performance management platform in the Cloud

Gary Simon, FSN’s managing editor talks to McAfee about how, against all expectations, McAfee’s global finance team has eradicated spreadsheets in one of their key planning processes using Anaplan’s innovative, fast and scalable planning solutions in the Cloud. They improved control and collaboration at a stroke and they did it quickly with very little help from anyone else!

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Chesterfield Borough Council to manage performance with Intuitive Dashboards

Chesterfield Borough Council is implementing Intuitive Dashboards, the dashboard solution from Intuitive Business Intelligence to provide real-time graphical dashboard views of the Borough Council’s performance against their corporate plan. The implementation will leverage information in the Council’s Agresso Business World System.

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A new performance management framework – Part II

Michael Coveney, senior FSN writer and author of the book “Strategy to the MAX” continues his fresh look at the world of performance management. He challenges the existing obsession with CPM tools that fail to satisfy corporate objectives and instead proposes a new framework to illustrate what components are needed to deliver an executable strategy and how they should really fit together. In this article, the second of the series Michael goes into more detail on how this integrated framework can be implemented using OLAP technologies.

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Anaplan the Cloud-based provider of enterprise performance management and planning applications secures $11.4 Million funding to accelerate growth

Story by FSN Managing Editor, Gary Simon

Anaplan the rapidly growing provider of budgeting, planning and performance management applications in the Cloud has received a vote of confidence from the investment community by successfully raising second round finance of $11.4m to fund its expansion into Global 5,000 companies. Anaplan, tipped as early as 2010 by FSN as a company to watch is rapidly levelling the playing field with traditional on-premises solutions and providing real choice in the larger corporate segment, with its rapid time to build and fast in-memory processing. See FSN’s product review.

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Gartner points to flat IT Budgets in 2012

IT organisations will have to deliver on multiple priorities without an increase in their IT budget, as IT budgets are expected to be flat overall, increasing just 0.5 per cent, with declining IT budgets in North America and Europe, according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner.

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IBM embeds Social Media in business analytics

IBM unveiled new software and services this week that it says will deliver comprehensive networking capabilities to an increasingly social savvy workforce. The solutions are designed to allow organizations to apply analytics to their social business initiatives, allowing them to gain actionable insight on social networking sentiment anytime, anywhere and put it to work in real-time.

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Oracle throws down the gauntlet in EPM challenge to SAP BPC

In a blog comment published today John O'Rourke, Vice President, Product Marketing Oracle Enterprise Performance Management accuses SAP sales teams of “often misrepresenting the complexity of deployment and administrative requirements of Oracle’s EPM solutions” whilst “often overstating the simplicity of deploying and administering their own EPM applications”.

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