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		<title><![CDATA[Enterprise Performance Management - Financial Excellence and Beyond]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1014729]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper explores how enterprise performance management software can help you maximize profitability, immunize your company against noncompliance, and optimize operational efficiency by ensuring delivery of information when it's needed, in context. The premise is that the best solutions are integrated and adaptable to rapid business change, are easy to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Complimentary Research Report: Enterprise Performance Management, The Australian State of the Art]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=989605]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The field of Enterprise Performance Management EPM continues to grow. New performance indicators KPIs routinely emerge and are said to provide new performance insights and a panacea to the problems of aligning behaviors with key performance drivers. However, many Australian organisations are still extracting an insufficient return on measurement from...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Enterprise Performance Management: A Comparative Index Across 8 Geographies]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=975833]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Monitoring, measuring and reporting on the financial health of an organisation is a basic need that requires effective tools and processes to optimise the end result. Underpinning this is the requirement for planning capabilities, utilising scenario and what if analysis with simulations and other forward looking capabilities. The new primary...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Driving Management Excellence for SAP Customers With Oracle Enterprise Performance Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1104819]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[More than 4,000 companies that use SAP to run their business also rely on Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management EPM system to manage their business. This occurs because Oracle's EPM system is the only solution for business intelligence and performance management that is complete, open, and integrated. Oracle's approach to EPM...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Deploying Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Office, Fusion Edition]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1104835]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Office, Fusion Edition Smart View provides a common Microsoft Office interface for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management EPM suite of products along with Business Intelligence BI data sources. Using Smart View, one can view, import, manipulate, distribute and share data in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Service-Oriented Architecture: The Foundation for Enterprise Performance Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1130071]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Efficient. Reliable. Agile. An enterprise performance management solution must be all of these. So the key is to build the solution on a Service-Oriented Architecture SOA that is open and standards-based, platform neutral and location transparent, among other things. The IBM Cognos 8 platform architecture is based on these SOA...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Integrated Enterprise Performance Management Architecture Drives Global Vision for BT]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=894303]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[BT Group wanted to streamline consolidation of 5,000 separate financial data sources from 580 entities covering all of BT's business units across the world and reduce data preparation costs, gain actionable intelligence to enhance decision-making, simplify auditing, and ensure compliance with international financial reporting standards. The challenge was to build...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Management Excellence: How Tomorrow's Leaders Will Get Ahead]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1130445]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Strategy-to-Success (S2S) framework expands the scope of traditional performance management to offer a framework by which companies can deliver Management Excellence. Enterprise Performance Management Systems EPMS then enable companies to realize their management process goals by connecting disparate management activities and bringing together strategy formulation, execution and feedback. This...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management: Trends for Midsize Companies]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1130447]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Hyperion's 2007 survey (2007 Business Finance Hyperion Mid-Enterprise Survey) of requirements for Business Intelligence BI and Enterprise Performance Management EPM solutions revealed the differences in requirements, evaluation criteria, and purchase influencers between midsize companies and large enterprises. With a heavy reliance on spreadsheets to support EPM processes, top investment areas...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Enterprise Performance Management for Midsize Companies and Workgroups]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1130449]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Finance and Information Technology IT executives and staff in large enterprises around the world are adopting Business Intelligence BI and Enterprise Performance Management EPM solutions to provide insight into the factors driving performance and to better comply with reporting regulations. But these tools should not be limited to large, publicly...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Managing the Transition to International Financial Reporting Standards]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1130467]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This white paper identifies the many challenges companies face when implementing International Financial Reporting Standards IFRS in corporate reporting. It also explores how Oracle's IFRS-enabled enterprise performance management system can ease this transition. The Oracle solution provides the high level of analysis and transparency that companies need in today's demanding...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Enterprise Performance Management: Joining Planning and Reporting for Superior Results]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1130477]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Faced with increased pressure to provide unified, organization wide financial planning and reporting with tighter controls and better audit trails, organizations are turning to integrated Enterprise Performance Management EPM systems as a way to streamline reporting cycles, reduce compliance costs, and improve business predictability. But when is the right time...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Introducing Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Smart Space]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=349340]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Maximizing performance across an organization often requires employees to make decisions quickly, efficiently and appropriately to meet the ongoing challenges of everyday business. However, in reality most organizations couldn't be further from this ideal. Research by Cindi Howson suggests that 75% of business users in current organizations do not have...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Enterprise Performance Management: Connecting the Dots]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=350134]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[An Enterprise Performance Management EPM system brings the management processes under a single umbrella, connecting financial and operational decisions and activities with transactional systems to form a comprehensive management picture. This paper demonstrates how an EPM system connects people and processes, metrics, businesses, and systems. It introduces important criteria for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=327197]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Hyperion's 2007 survey (2007 Business Finance Hyperion Mid-Enterprise Survey) of requirements for business intelligence BI and enterprise performance management EPM solutions revealed the differences in requirements, evaluation criteria, and purchase influencers between emerging businesses and large enterprises. With a heavy reliance on spreadsheets to support EPM processes, top investment areas...]]></description>
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		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=327198]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This white paper reviews the stages of business growth and provides examples of how forward-thinking emerging companies have leveraged BI and EPM solutions to manage expansion and address complex reporting and compliance issues.     ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Oracle's Accelerate Initiative: Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=327200]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper by analyst Lee Kroon of Anderson Consulting Group examines Oracle Accelerate to determine whether it has what it takes to deliver genuine value to midsize organizations. The paper makes clear that Accelerate is to be a solid effort on Oracle's part that is both elegant and practical in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Enterprise Performance Management: A Framework for Optimizing Network and Application Performance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=158926]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Enterprise Performance Management framework takes a systematic approach to managing the combined performance of enterprise application and network resources. It is a five-step framework that gives IT professionals the processes and information necessary to help ensure continuous IT infrastructure optimization, reliability and performance. In addition, EPM can also help...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Enterprise Performance Management: Driving Smarter Business]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=276356]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Global competition, investor scrutiny and new regulations are forcing managers to rethink how they systematically monitor and manage performance leading to a high level of interest in performance management. Enterprise performance management is littered with its fair share of acronyms - CPM, BPM, EPM, FPM - all striving to exemplify...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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