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- Law Firm Expedites Report Creation for Better Budgeting and Decision Making
- Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, which employs more than 800 lawyers and professionals in 15 offices worldwide, had outgrown the labor-intensive ways in which it created budgets and monitored the firm's performance. To help ensure continued growth and profitability, the firm turned to The Glenture Group, a Microsoft Gold Certified...
- Tags: Budgeting, Decision-making, Microsoft Corp., KPI, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- Metrics That Matter: Uncovering KPIs That Get Results
- High performing IT organizations didn't get that way by accident, as revealed in a recent benchmark study by the IT Process Institute ITPI. Other organizations can achieve better performances replicating the practices found in the high performers: they have built a culture of change management and a culture of causality...
- Tags: KPI, Tripwire, Change Management, Performance Management, Policies And Procedures, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts 2009-01-01
- SAP's UK users don't get it - yet
- The above video shows two interviews I made earlier today. One is with Alan Bowling, chairman SAP user group UK and Ireland. The second is with Ray Wang, VP at Forrester research. SAP's UK users are struggling to understand the price hike in maintenance costs. Users I...
- Tags: SAP AG, KPI, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- KPI Scorecard 3.0 (Windows)
- MAUS KPI Scorecard will help you easily produce one page scorecards for your business. A process to keep you focused on your desired goals. MAUS KPI Scorecard assists you by keeping track of financial and non financial statistics. Your accounting department keeps track of sales and profit but what about...
- Tags: Accounting, Financial, Microsoft Windows, KPI, MAUS Business Systems, MAUS KPI Scorecard, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-09-19
- PokerTrak 1.0 (Mobile)
- What can you do with PokerTrak? You can track poker your prowess and progress over time! Track different types of games (Holdem/Omaha/Stud/Combo) Track different types of stakes (small stakes up to big - tracked by Big Blind/Ante and No Limit/Limit) Track tournament play track place and number of players Track...
- Tags: Mobile, KPI, Lemdisyn
- Software downloads 2008-08-19
- Ceska lekarna Achieves a Permanent Increase in Profitability With Key Performance Indicators
- Ceska lekarna wanted to enable central management of business activities with detailed sales analysis of the data that was previously stored in local database and manage inventory mix and levels. The challenge was to standardize product masters to facilitate sales analysis across all pharmacies and provide detailed information on costs...
- Tags: Budgeting, Pharmacy, KPI, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Sales, Finance
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- Towards Management of SLA-Aware Business Processes Based on Key Performance Indicators
- It is increasingly important that Service Level Agreements SLAs are taken into account when business processes are exposed as services in a Service Oriented Architecture. SLAs define expected service behavior and nonfunctional properties of the service. The fact that the service provider has to offer certain guarantees concerning SLA properties...
- Tags: Business Process, SLA, KPI, University Of Stuttgart, Service Level Management, Operational Planning, It Operations, It service Management, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-04-08
- SAP - Business Objects acquisition: Linking value proposition to action
- SAP announced yesterday that it has successfully completed the share purchase requirements needed to acquire Business Objects. Coming on the heels of that announcement, SAP held a special briefing for bloggers with Henning Kagermann, CEO of SAP, and John Schwarz, CEO of Business Objects. Discussing the value...
- Tags: Acquisition, Park, Business Objects, SAP AG, KPI, Value Proposition, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Implementing KPIs - A 12-Step Process
- The attendee of this webcast will understand how to implement KPIs; steps to be carried out by an in-house team; and why this may be the major breakthrough in turning the organization from good to great.
- Tags: SAS Institute, KPI
- Webcasts 2008-01-16
- IT Manager Webcast: Application Platform: Using KPIs to Streamline Development (Level 200)
- One of the main benefits of moving to Application Lifecycle Management ALM with an integrated rather than ad hoc technology set to support the process is the visibility to get into the life cycle. Knowing how to 'Read the tea leaves' can help to identify constraints early and take corrective...
- Tags: Webcast, Streamline, Microsoft Corp., Application Lifecycle Management, KPI
- Webcasts 2008-01-11
- Implementing KPIs in Smaller Organizations (
- The attendee of this webcast will learn how smaller organizations should approach the implementation of KPIs, the practical steps that can be carried out by an in-house team, and, why carrying out this exercise may well be the major breakthrough in turning the organization from good to great.
- Tags: SAS Institute, KPI, Organization
- Webcasts 2007-12-05
- TechNet Webcast: Deliver Actionable Insight Throughout Your Organization With Data Mining (Part 3 of 3): Use Predictive Intelligence to Create Smarter KPIs (Level 200)
- The Key Performance Indicator KPI is an essential tool in building business intelligence applications for executive and strategic use. However, traditional KPIs are built over historical data, showing what has happened in the past and the current state of the business. There is increasing demand for "predictive KPIs," which show...
- Tags: Webcast, Data Mining, KPI, Microsoft TechNet
- Webcasts 2007-11-29
- Council Improves KPI Monitoring With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
- Maroochy Shire Council wanted to improve communication to enable more insightful decision making. As part of the Microsoft Queensland Spotlight 2007 program, it worked with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Dimension Data to create a collaboration portal based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The solution provides a more effective way...
- Tags: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Council, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, KPI, Portals, Microsoft Office, Internet, Office Suites, Software
- Case studies 2007-08-15
- Evident Software - Analyzing your network
- Out of the blue, I received an Email from Roger W. Boyce, President and CEO of Evident Software, offering to brief me on the company, its products and its direction. After scanning through the company's Website, I have to admit I was intrigued. I've spoken with many companies that are...
- Tags: Managing virtualized environments
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Model and Simulate Business Processes, Part 2: Displaying SVG Diagrams on the WebSphere Business Monitor Dashboards
- In this paper, a business analyst creates SVG diagrams to display the information he is interested in at run time. After he creates the SVG diagrams and IDs for each of the shapes of interest, an integration developer uses the WebSphere Business Monitor Model Editor to attach the diagrams to...
- Tags: Business Process, Monitor, IBM WebSphere, KPI, SVG, Integration Developer, Monitor Model Editor, Application Servers, Monitors & Displays, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2007-06-05
- VivAlytics 1 (Windows)
- VivAlytics is a widget that tracks KPIs Key Performance Indicators of your Google Analytics data. Features: Track multiple Google Analytics accounts and profiles. Choose the KPIs that are important to you. Set individual alerts and thresholds for each KPI you track. Use filters to access the data you need. Color-coded...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, KPI, Monitus, VivAlytics
- Software downloads 2007-04-13
- Impact of Network Outsourcing on Key Performance Indicators
- As networks converge and become more complex, service providers continue to search for ways of streamlining their operations. The continuing effort to reduce costs and increase the quality of services is leading an increasing number of service providers to turn to outsourcing as a way to manage the many activities....
- Tags: Alcatel, Alcatel-Lucent, Business Services, Human Resources, KPI, Network, Performance, Performance Management, Service Provider, Workforce Management
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Dialog Strategy 2030 (Windows)
- Dialog Strategy balanced scorecard will allow you to build your business model and create the metrics and reporting needed to boost your company s performance. The idea of the balanced scorecard is to tightly link your performance measurements (financial and non-financial key performance indicators - KPI) to your strategic planning...
- Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows, KPI, Balanced Scorecard, Performance Management, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Marketing, Marketing Research, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- Software downloads 2006-05-04
- State of the Art in Human Resources: An SAP/ASUG Benchmarking Study of KPIs & Best Business Practices
- The premise of this white paper is that, managed well, HR becomes human capital management HCM--a function that contributes directly to a company's growth, innovation, and bottom line. The paper outlines HR best practices, explaining why top-performing HR departments: Optimize the efficiency of their transactional processes ...
- Tags: KPI, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Web Site Measurement Hacks: Use Key Performance Indicators
- A Key Performance Indicator KPI is any ratio that summarizes two or more important measurements and is tied directly to the business objectives. Examples include ratios like the order conversion rate orders divided by visits or the average number of page views per visit: numbers that, when they change significantly,...
- Tags: Web, O'Reilly Media Inc., Web Site, KPI
- Book chapters 2005-09-02
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