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NetSuite + AdaptivePlanning = BPM disruption

This slipped under the radar but on June 10th NetSuite and AdaptivePlanning announced a marketing and integration partnership that will see NetSuite acting as a reseller for AdaptivePlanning's business performance management BPM solution. Why should this matter? So far, the saas/on-demand transaction app...

Tags: BPM, Business Performance Management, NetSuite Inc., Adaptive, Business Intelligence, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Executives Gain Flexible Budgeting and Forecasting With Microsoft Data Management

Aevum provides retirement accommodation and care services for Australian seniors in New South Wales and Western Australia. Retirement village operator Aevum needed sophisticated business reporting to maintain and grow its portfolio of properties. In 2007, it deployed the CALUMO business performance management suite from Microsoft Gold Certified Partner CALUMO Labs....

Tags: Budgeting, Business Performance Management, Microsoft Corp., Forecasting, Aevum, Business Intelligence, Data Management, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Enterprise Software, Financial Accounting, Software, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Finance

Case studies 2008-02-01

Business Performance Management (BPM) in the Mid-Enterprise

Hyperion Mid-Enterprise Solutions is a set of products designed to bring the power and reliability of Hyperion's Business Performance Management BPM applications and Business Intelligence BI tools to mid-enterprise companies globally. The Hyperion Mid-Enterprise Solutions address small and mid-enterprise customer requirements for more effective financial reporting...

Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Business Performance Management, Hyperion Mid-Enterprise Solutions, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2006-11-01

Defining an Enterprise-Wide Business Performance Management Architecture

From the perspective of today's business users, there is a growing demand for a single system that will address all of their business performance management requirements. Adding to the complexity, most organizations cannot afford to replace their existing infrastructure and therefore require solutions that work in conjunction with as many...

Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Business Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2006-10-01

Model Driven Development for Business Performance Management

Business process integration and monitoring provides an invaluable means for an enterprise to adapt to changing conditions. However, developing such applications using traditional methods is challenging because of the intrinsic complexity of integrating large-scale business processes and existing applications. Model Driven Development MDD is an approach to developing applications -...

Tags: Business Process, Business Performance Management, IBM Corp., Model-Driven Development, Business Intelligence, Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Data Management, Business Operations

White papers 2006-07-31

Business Performance Management: Merging Business Optimization With IT Optimization

This white paper explains how Business Service Management BSM is really a special case of Business Process Optimization BPO - one that is applied specifically to the IT operation. This paper also describes how top management needs to embrace Business Performance Management BPM - something that goes beyond BPO. By...

Tags: Business Process, Optimization, Business Performance Management, Information Technology, Business Service, Business Service Management, Operational Planning, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software, Data Management

White papers 2004-03-01

BPM Revealed: The Naked Truth About Implementation

On paper, Business Performance Management BPM is one of the smartest things a company can do. Unfortunately, implementing BPM hasn't been that simple for many companies. And ultimately, companies need to know if BPM is helping them make - or save - more money. This webcast shows what other companies...

Tags: BPM, Business Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts

Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Implementing Successful Business Strategies at Microsoft, Dell, and Motorola Using Business Performance Management

Business Performance Management BPM holds the great promise of enabling a person to implement strategic objectives across the organization. However, building a successful BPM solution can be a daunting task. How have other high-visibility, enterprise organizations tackled this problem? What are the pitfalls? Is there a recipe for success? The...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Webcast, Business Performance Management, Microsoft Corp., Motorola Inc., Business Strategy, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts

Solution Provider Uses New Tools to Boost Productivity, Increase Time-to-Market

Cartesis, the largest business performance management software specialist in the world, creates applications that help its customers improve BPM. The organization's reporting, consolidation, forecasting, and budgeting solutions provide Global 2000 companies with cost-effective solutions that unify processes and increase efficiencies. Cartesis wanted to find a more productive and faster method...

Tags: Business Performance Management, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies

Additional Resources

Enteprise 2.0 - the non-debate

Mega-Corps & the worldThere is life beyond the Mega-Corp droneculture where management punishes theworker ants for a mistake and threatensthem with layoffs and pay cuts.No thanks, small enterprise businessis the groundwork, big mega-corpsare puppet shells with CEO's pullingthe strings.RE: Enteprise 2.0 - the non-debateWell putRE: Enteprise 2.0 - the non-debateUnfortunately...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enteprise 2.0, Enterprise 2.0

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

News to know: Microsoft store; Domain names; Blackberry Storm2; VoIP; Android

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Robin Harris: A visit to Microsoft's first store Zack Whittaker: Web addresses to extend to non-English languages...

Tags: Data Center, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Domain Name, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Telephony, VOIP, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Networking

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server

What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

Revisiting the topic of Office versus OpenOffice.Org

re-visit the revisitingif you actually TRIED to use OpenOffice and TRIED to dig in deeper into it's possibilities, you would find zero compatibility issues except for base/access part. and macros, that no one even with the small brain doesn't use.but you didn't. what you did is to buy office 2008...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, OpenOffice, Workforce management, OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., compatibility issue

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Accelerating Business Performance: San Francisco & Frankfurt Enterprise 2.0 Conferences

Next week sees the inaugural West Coast iteration of the Enterprise 2.0 conference, which is also an annual June event in Boston on the east coast. Sameer Patel and I will be running a track throughout the event which is focused on Selling the Case for...

Tags: Performance, Use Case, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-26

IBM adds to green consulting services

The business consulting division for IBM has come out with a new sustainability consulting service that focuses on helping companies measure and address the energy efficiency and environmental impact of their supply chain partners. The IBM Sustainable Supplier Information Management service is focused on helping businesses define...

Tags: Sustainability, Supply Chain, Consulting Service, Supplier, Consulting, IBM Corp., IBM Sustainable Supplier Information Management Service, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-21

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Senior IBM exec among those charged in Wall Street insider trading sting

Greed on Wall Street has landed six people - including a long-time, high-level IBM executive - in handcuffs after the FBI charged them with being involved with "the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history." In all, the six netted illegal profits of more than $20...

Tags: Hedge Fund, FBI, Wall Street, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Chiesi, MOFFAT, Federal Government, Investment, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Oracle's big plan: Double revenue in five years

Oracle capped off its OpenWorld conference with a powwow with analysts where management was described as extremely confident about the company's prospects. Although I'm not sure you could ever describe Oracle management as timid---does Larry Ellison allow that?---analyst notes seem to portray executives as exceedingly confident. Judging...

Tags: Revenue, Oracle Corp., Ross MacMillan, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Ellison's keynote: Linux, Exadata, the Governator and more

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage for the final keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 today - an afternoon session that followed lunch and got off to a rough start when Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan who was scheduled to speak after Ellison came on stage first and spent 45 minutes...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, IBM Corp., Ellison, Fusion, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-14

ipMonitor 10.0 (Windows)

Do you know what's up with your network? What's going on right now with all those network devices, servers, and applications that are the magic behind your business? To keep on top of what's happening with all of those moving parts, you need an easy-to-use, reliable network monitoring software solution...

Tags: Network, Monitoring, Microsoft Windows, Network Device, Network Monitoring, SolarWinds, SolarWinds ipMonitor, Networking, Network Administration

Software downloads 2009-10-14