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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

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

Management Excellence: A Step-by-Step Strategy to Success

To differentiate themselves from competitors, organizations must move beyond operational excellence to become smart, agile, and aligned. These are the characteristics of a company that has achieved management excellence. Oracle has developed the strategy-to-success framework to help business leaders organize, plan, measure, and report for management excellence. The strategy-to-success framework...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Management Excellence, Performance Management, Leadership, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management

White papers 2008-11-01

Additional Resources

News to know: Twitter DMs; New Neutrality; Zimbra; Dell-Perot; Palm; Foursquare

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. Michael Krigsman: Are Twitter direct messages safe? Richard Koman: FCC to announce net neutrality principles ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Twitter Inc., Information Technology, Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Andrew Nusca, Zimbra, Mary Jo Foley, Net Neutrality, Perot Systems Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Serial ATA, Corporate Law, Web Services, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Business Operations, Management

Blog posts 2009-09-22

Dell and Perot: What this means

Look at more than the upside to any acquisition Dell and Perot are getting married. This acquisition puts approximately 23,000 Perot services employees in with Dell. (see Larry Dignan's detailed post on the transaction ) (here's an InfoWorld post, too) From the macro view,...

Tags: Acquisition, Dell Computer Corp., Perot, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Developers plan integrated platform for managing energy, resource conservation goals

It must be awfully annoying for businesses to have to deal with point applications for environmental/energy management. Plainly speaking, these things should be just part of overall management tools associated with compliance, sustainability and overall operational excellence initiatives. Someone must have clued in ESS, which provides Environmental,...

Tags: Software, Sustainability, Compliance, Greenhouse Gas, Crisis Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Social Business in Action - Establishing Excellence

Human interaction is as old as humanity, and nothing beats personal contact. We can learn more from a few seconds of personal contact and get a 'gut feel' about someone or a situation experientially in person than we can from hours of research and remote contact....

Tags: Web, Team, Information Technology, Human Interaction, Cohen, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Team Management, Strategy, Internet, Marketing, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Costain Group Leverages Global Best Practice and Collaboration to Achieve Goal of Being "Number One"

Costain Group wanted to streamline collaboration between globally dispersed teams of partners, associates, and subcontractors working on multiple projects undertaken by Costain's diverse operating entities and maximize business efficiency and excellence to sustain double-digit growth in profit and revenue through 2010 and beyond. The challenge was to enforce rigorous, best-practice,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Best Practice, Oracle Primavera, Costain Group Plc., Collaboration, Groupware, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Case studies 2009-09-01

Outsourcing for Success - The Retained Organization: Transforming Your Team for Operational Excellence

The requirements for the advanced planning and design of a skilled retained organization are paramount to the success of any outsourcing relationship, and should be facilitated early on in the outsourcing process. Additionally, key success factors in the design and implementation of a retained organization include; the ability of the...

Tags: Team, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

White papers 2009-07-30

A buy side response to the enterprise buyer's Bill of Rights (and a partial solution)

My first post of today pointed towards an all too familiar enterprise project 'fail' and the documented experiences of one project person trying to reach completion on a now two year implementation. Coincidentally (I didn't know this was in the pipe), Mike Krigsman provides a critique of Forrester's Enterprise Software...

Tags: Consultant, SAP AG, Bill, Principle Reason, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-13

The Sales eLibrary (Palm) 1.00 (Mobile)

This eLibrary covers everything from telesales to generating sales prospects to account management. The books were originally published in paperback by Management Pocketbooks. Concise and to the point, they have been written by well-known trainers and management consultants. The titles include:The Sales Excellence PocketbookThis book explains key techniques to help...

Tags: Telesales, Technique, Mobile, Palm Inc., Negotiation, Export PocketbookAuthor David Horchover, Sales Strategy, Sales Channel, Productivity, Sales Force Management, Sales

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Journal of Management Excellence - Building Trust

Financial statements and sustainability reporting are about more than just publishing numbers. Exchanging information with stakeholders is the best way to manage the perception and image of a company. Internal alignment ensures that expectations are met and that changing expectations and beliefs are immediately identified. Though reputation is ultimately...

Tags: Reputation, Oracle Corp., Financial, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Corporate Governance, Financial Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law

White papers 2009-07-01

IBM Case Study: Laurentian Bank of Canada

Founded in 1846, Laurentian Bank of Canada is a Quebec banking institution operating across Canada, dedicated to meeting the financial needs of its clients through the excellence of service, simplicity and proximity. It needed to provide branch employees with the information needed to successfully run their businesses. It deployed Business...

Tags: Laurentian Bank Of Canada, IBM Corp., Banking, Business Intelligence, Financial Accounting, Databases, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance

Case studies 2009-07-01

What really happened with SAP Business ByDesign?

Many of us who have been following the SAP Business ByDesign saga have used a combination of first hand accounts, intuition, inference and plain guess work to figure out what's been going on with the product. Or is it service? As far as I can gather, those commenting in detail...

Tags: Team, SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, BYD, Engineers, Team Management, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-22

Enterprise Performance Management - Financial Excellence and Beyond

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...

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

White papers 2009-06-19

The Financial Close: Optimizing Performance and Driving Financial Excellence

In this white paper, we discuss how corporate finance centers can overcome the barriers to a fast, high-quality close. By converging previously disparate disciplines of business intelligence; governance, risk, and compliance; and enterprise performance management, companies can get trusted data into the hands of key stakeholders in a timely...

Tags: Financial, Performance, SAP AG, Financial Accounting, Business Intelligence, Personal Finance, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-06-19

TechnologyOne Case Study: Flinders University

Established in 1966, in a period of significant higher education expansion in Australia, Flinders University emphasizes innovation and excellence in educational programs and research across a wide range of disciplines. Having identified numerous shortcomings with the incumbent system, the university reviewed the financial systems currently operating in Australian universities and...

Tags: University, TechnologyOne, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Financial Planning, Tools & Techniques, Leadership, Strategy, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Finance, Management

Case studies 2009-06-18

Bad Idea Dept.: AT&T's Ed Whitacre to run General Motors

Bad Idea Dept.: AT&T's Ed Whitacre to run General MotorsMaybe they will put the ice cream man in charge of Citigroup nexti knowlets put an oil guy in charge of Time Warnerwe can play all kinds of tricks BarryOh what fun!Court ReviewHmmm. You make some good points, but... GM already...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Investment, ATT/SBC, General Motors Corp., Ed Whitacre, Bad Idea Dept., ATT, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-10

Coating Excellence International - Manuafacturer Gains Real-Time Production Data, Reduces Licensing Costs by 15 Percent

Coating Excellence International CEI manufactures high-quality, flexible-packaging products using environmentally friendly practices. To continue to enhance its quality and efficiency, CEI needed to provide its shop-floor operators and business decision makers with real-time production metrics and analysis tools in a solution that was quick to deploy and easy to manage...

Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Corp., Coating Excellence International, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-05-21

Cisco CTO's 5 Predictions for the Future of Collaboration

Padmasree Warrior is, to quote her biography on their company blog "Cisco Systems’ Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, she is responsible for helping drive the company’s technological innovations and strategy, and works closely with its senior executive team and board of directors to align these efforts with Cisco’s corporate goals....

Tags: Marketing, Social Media, Cisco Systems Inc., Padmasree Warrior, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-25