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Driving Management Excellence for SAP Customers With Oracle Enterprise Performance Management

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...

Tags: Enterprise Performance Management, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Management Excellence, EPM, Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2009-03-01

Why BI Is Ripe - NOW! - For Businesses of Any Size: Exploring the Vast Potential of BI and EPM

The idea that businesses of all sizes should have real insight into their operations and their customers - to be able to do their planning, forecasting, modeling and adjusting based on data that is current, accurate, accessible and flexible - is at the core of today's expanding BI and EPM...

Tags: Oracle Corp., EPM, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

White papers 2009-01-26

The Path to EPM Success

An EPM system is most effective when it is applied to the entire organization. But a completely centralized approach to EPM is unrealistic in most large companies. For companies that have many different EPM initiatives underway, an EPM Center of Excellence can help standardize technologies and processes to maximize the...

Tags: Oracle Corp., EPM, EPM System

White papers 2008-06-01

Additional Resources

EasyProject Manager 1.7 (Mac)

EasyProject Manager is for teams that need to collaborate on projects. It allows you to share and collaborate with your teammates without getting in the way. No complicated charts or reading manuals to figure out how to use it. With EPM your team shares the same information updated real time....

Tags: Team, Apple Macintosh, Orionbelt.com LLC, EasyProject Manager, Team Management, Productivity, E-mail, Management, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-11-18

SuccessFactors plots another course: Business execution software

Software as a service player SuccessFactors, best known for its employee performance management EPM applications, is charting a course that could more than double its total addressable market. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Software, SuccessFactors Inc., Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-09

MSDN Webcast: Project Server Report Pack II - The Top Reports (Level 200)

The Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management EPM 2007 Report Pack provides rich reports for common information needs. The EPM 2007 Report Pack is a collection of 12 Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services SSRS reports designed for various user groups of the EPM solution. The presenters of this webcast provide an...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Report, Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management 2007 Report Pack, Enterprise Project Management 2007 Report Pack

Webcasts 2009-08-19

Providing Transparency for Your Agency's Federal Stimulus Funding

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is providing significant funding to aid the economic recovery. But with the funding, the Administration is requiring an unprecedented level of transparency and accountability for the Federal Agencies that make use of these dollars. As the economic stimulus funding continues to be distributed, Federal...

Tags: Agency, Microsoft Corp., Stimulus, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Webcasts 2009-05-14

Complimentary Research Report: Enterprise Performance Management, The Australian State of the Art

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...

Tags: Enterprise Performance Management, Oracle Corp., Performance, Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2009-05-01

Utility Company Boosts Productivity, Protects Investment With Unified Communications

Empresas Publicas de Medellín EPM, one of the largest municipally owned utility companies in Colombia, has many offices throughout the state of Antioquia. Employees in different locations often need to communicate and collaborate with one another on projects and teams. Anticipating continued growth, EPM wanted to streamline and modernize its...

Tags: Utility Company, Investment, Unified Communications, Microsoft Corp., PBX, Telephony, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking

Case studies 2009-05-01

Medical Technology Company BD Gains Strategic View of $400 Million R and D Portfolio

Medical technology company BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) serves healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, the pharmaceutical industry, and the general public. While R&D spending at BD grew rapidly, the company's ability to analyze projects and investments lagged behind. BD needed a tool that would provide a companywide view...

Tags: Technology Company, R&D, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., View, BD, Research & Development, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Roi/Tco, Investment, Business Operations, Human Resources, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Case studies 2009-04-01

Auto Finance Company Supports Long-Term Success With Better Project Management

Dallas-based Santander Consumer USA is one of fastest-growing companies in automotive finance sector. Continued rapid portfolio growth highlighted the company's need for automated and integrated project management methods. The company chose the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution; it used Project Hosts to host the solution and Catapult Systems to...

Tags: Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Case studies 2009-02-01

Deploying Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Office, Fusion Edition

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...

Tags: Enterprise Performance Management, Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Office, Business Intelligence, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management

White papers 2009-01-01

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Gifts for the energy-conscious

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Gifts for the energy-consciouscost to save penniesPeople are all so bothered about paying for electricity costs...but they will go and plop down hundreds of gadgets that presume to help them curb such costs....well, do the math folks...with the average cost/kilowatt in the US, being 10 cents...

Tags: TVs, Kill-a-watt

Discussion threads 2008-12-08

TechNet Webcast: Performance Management Using Project Server 2007 and PerformancePoint Server 2007 (Level 200)

The Microsoft Enterprise Project Management EPM Solution allows users in an enterprise environment to create, select, plan, and manage projects over their lifespan. The EPM Solution includes Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, Project Server 2007, and Project Portfolio Server 2007. Operational systems such as those built with EPM have a...

Tags: Webcast, Performance, Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Enterprise Project Management Solution, Enterprise Project Management Solution, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2008-12-04

Mastering Microsoft Project Server 2007

View Available Dates and LocationsIn this course, designed for project managers, participants will gain the knowledge and ability to leverage the capabilities of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, a robust Enterprise Project Management EPM software application, in the context of the job role to improve job performance. What You'll Learn:...

Tags: Team, Microsoft Project, Project Manager, Microsoft Corp., Workflow, Resource Capacity, Activity Plan, Process Improvement, Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Groupware, Quality, Business Operations, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software

Training 2008-11-01

Management Excellence: Leveraging Technology and Techniques

Extending operational excellence to management excellence is the next strategic imperative for organizations of all sizes, in every market around the world. Oracle's strategy-to-success framework provides a path for companies to become smart, agile, and aligned while Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management EPM technologies provide the tools. One in a series...

Tags: Technique, Oracle Corp., Management Excellence, Productivity, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-11-01

Webcast: Using EPM to Measure and Manage in the Public Sector

Organization can manage projects & programs better and make better decisions. With the right processes, the right tools customized to the requirements, metrics that are meaningful to the organization can be available to and easily interpreted by key players and stakeholders. The attendee will learn through an actual case study...

Tags: Public Sector, Metrics, Webcast, Productivity

Webcasts 2008-08-13

Integrating Operations and Finance: A Two-Way Street

One of the hot buttons in Enterprise Performance Management EPM is operational and financial integration. In many organizations, operational plans and financial results are not aligned very well, and in most cases, both have their own set of performance indicators. From a top-down perspective, the reasons for better alignment of...

Tags: Financial, Financial Accounting, Finance

White papers 2008-08-01

Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management: Trends for Midsize Companies

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...

Tags: Enterprise Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Pricing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2008-07-01

Enterprise Performance Management for Midsize Companies and Workgroups

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...

Tags: Enterprise Performance Management, Oracle Corp., Business Intelligence, Productivity, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2008-07-01