Corporate performance management (CPM)

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CIO Decisions Ezine Volume 6: Managing for Efficiency and Effectiveness by CIO Decisions
needed to accelerate business. The information in the following articles elaborates on how Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software can be beneficial:
  • CPM Rises to the Fore in 2009
  • More than Dashboards: CPM Can Now Look Forward, Not Back
  • Five Steps to an Effective CPM Strategy
Top CPM Deployment Mistakes by IDS Scheer
In this expert podcast, hear about the top CPM deployment mistakes, including selecting a vendor, choosing build vs. buy and negotiating contracts. Whether you're still using outdated spreadsheets or just looking for additional help with financial consolidation, budgeting, planning
Pervasive Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions by IDS Scheer
In this expert webcast, learn more about the pros and cons of pervasive BI solutions, specific vendor offerings and ways to get executive buy - in. Pervasive BI is on the rise, offering everyday business users access to BI. Extending BI to frontline users opens up new venues such as rooting business culture and enhancing employee training
Presentation Transcript: Pervasive Business Intelligence (BI) Trends by IDS Scheer
In this expert webcast transcript, you'll learn more about the pros and cons of pervasive BI solutions, specific vendor offerings and ways to get executive buy - in. Pervasive BI is on the rise, offering everyday business users access to BI. Extending BI to frontline users opens up new venues such as rooting business culture and enhancing
Gartner Predictions for 2009: Business Intelligence and Performance Management Will Deliver Greater Business Value by Actuate
Learn from leading Gartner analysts on how to develop and deploy a cost-effective BI solutions using open source and business intelligence tools (BIRT). Learn from leading Gartner analysts on how to develop and deploy a cost-effective BI solutions using open source and business intelligence tools (BIRT
Financial Performance Management: Optimize Financial Performance for a Competitive Edge by SAP America Inc
Applications for financial performance management, part of SAP® solutions for enterprise performance management, cover the full life cycle of financial management and put you in control of performance. Applications for financial performance management, part of SAP®
3PAR Thin Copy Desktop: A VDI-Optimized Storage Solution by 3PAR
consolidated servers. The advent of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) holds great promise in corporate, government, and service provider environments. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, such as VMware VDI, enables end users or their hosting providers to provision and manage hundreds of individual, virtual desktops from a set of
Application Performance Management Best Practices by Orange Business Services
The articles in this E-Guide include "Application performance management: Developing a strategy", "Understanding the network application environment", and "Application performance management: How to prepare for new applications with an impact analysis". If you've got a question about application performance
The Alignment-Focused Organization: Bridging the Gap between Strategy and Execution by SAP America Inc
is intended to align the actions of all individuals, teams, and business units to achieve corporate goals. But when it comes time to execute, they can run into trouble. To close the gap between strategy and execution, companies need to align business strategy with actual initiatives, projects, and daily activities across the
Regaining Control of the Corporate Network to Ensure Business Processes by Blue Coat
Blue Coat Systems CEO Brian NeSmith discusses how the ADN brings together Application Performance Monitoring, WAN Optimization and Secure Web Gateway technologies to deliver the visibility, acceleration, and security that enables enterprises to align network resources with business goals. Most enterprises only know about half or
Syberworks Learning Management System Product Suite by SyberWorks, Inc.
product suite is designed to facilitate the development, dissemination, measurement, and management of corporate knowledge to improve productivity and performance. SyberWorks has created one seamlessly unified Web-based Learning Management System. This complete product suite is designed to facilitate the development
Enabling The Lean Enterprise: A Three-Tiered Approach to Improving Your Operations by SAP America Inc
Recently, many businesses have used lean principles to move from a decentralized corporate management mode to a hybrid model - recognizing that different functions require different levels of centralized management to be efficient and effective. Read this whitepaper to learn a three-tiered approach to improving your operations
Solution Sheet: Xenos DSR™ - Document Storage Reduction Solution for ECM by Xenos Group Inc.
Output (HVTO), being produced by today's large organizations is rising dramatically. As corporate marketing departments fill the available white space real-estate found within these HVTO documents with highly composed, graphically rich content the size of these documents has dramatically increased. Additionally organizations
SAP Data Archiving: The First Step toward Managing the Information Lifecycle: Best Practices for SAP ILM to Improve Performance, Compliance and Cost by Dolphin Corporation
data archiving as the first step in an SAP ILM strategy; strategies for Data Archiving, Retention Management and the Retention Warehouse strategy for legacy decommissioning in SAP; and Dolphin's best practices approach to an effective, long-term ILM strategy. Where data archiving is about performance, Information Lifecycle Management is about
Data Center Connectivity Solutions: Reduce Complexity and Cost While Increasing Performance and Reliability by Ciena
an adaptive network that lowers connectivity costs and reduces the amount of maintenance and management required of more hardware-intensive WAN solutions. Corporate networks are in a new phase of change today. Innovative network and bandwidth-intensive applications, such as disk mirroring and disaster recovery, have become essential parts
The CIO's Guide to Mobile Security by BlackBerry
wireless devices in the same way that they approach securing the wired components of the corporate local area network (LAN) such as servers, desktop computers and laptop computers. Organizations can establish an overall infrastructure for security that includes wireless devices by installing security features on the devices and
MessageStats Version 6.5.1 - Exchange Server Reporting and Analysis by ScriptLogic Corporation
MessageStats simplifies management of Exchange helping IT administrators to improve performance, increase efficiencies and plan for capacity requirements. Product Type: Exchange Server Reporting and Analysis

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What is Process Intelligence? by IDS Scheer
Process Intelligence is a powerful tool that helps management to ensure that individual processes meet defined business objectives - and indeed that the entire enterprise does so. By analyzing operational KPIs and mapping them to live business processes, Process Intelligence brings a new dimension
Mid-market Meetings Management by StarCite
large sectors have similar performance results and organizational structures for meetings management, large organizations are better positioned for long-term success. Strategic meetings are an often over-looked category of spend that represents, on average, nearly 3% of an enterprise's total revenue. Strategic meetings are
SUN SPARC® ENTERPRISE T5440 SERVER ARCHITECTURE by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
and pollution, and this information is increasingly visible at both the customer and corporate executive level.

As organizations seek to consolidate redundant infrastructure, simplify administration, and leverage under-utilized systems, virtualization technology has emerged as an extremely important tool. Security too has

How to Gain Visibility and Control of Encrypted SSL Web Sessions by Blue Coat
blind" to the encrypted SSL traffic. This blind spot raises many security, control and performance questions. Can threats move within these tunnels? Can users subvert enterprise control? Can encrypted applications be accelerated for optimized performance?

Traditional security and networking solutions cannot effectively protect

Data Best Practices for Spend Analysis by DataFlux Corporation
Corporate sourcing and procurement organizations should always look for opportunities to introduce efficiencies, reduce costs, as well as negotiate desirable terms with vendors and suppliers. In this paper, we look at the business drivers and
Optimizing Email Storage to Drive Organizational Value by ScriptLogic Corporation
messaging managers & directors understand the business issues associated with email storage management and approaches that can be taken to manage this storage, while accommodating the needs of the wider business. E-mail is now the most widely used form of business communication today. Organizations all over the world rely on this tool as
Hitachi and Symantec: Build Your Archiving and Discovery Strategy Today by Continental Resources
it gives you a flexible, scalable, intelligent and easy-to-manage solution that delivers performance and scalability to meet the needs of any sized e-mail environment. Today, more than 10,000 government regulations require businesses to keep unstructured digital content for extended periods of time. And the penalties for failure can be
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