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Performance Budgeting: Integrating Budget and Performance Information Into Organization Decisions

This webcast presents more information about Performance-Based Budgeting - what it is, how it is used, and how it can help lead an organization in the direction of results-oriented management. Performance-Based Budgeting brings together, for the purpose of effective informed decision making: an organization's vision, strategic goals, and objectives; its...

Tags: Performance, Performance Budgeting, Performance Based Budgeting, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

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Cubus Embeds Unrivalled Performance and Scalability Into First-to-Market Project and Strategy Planning Tool

Cubus wanted to build on success of Cubis' customizable, Excel-based planning tool, ABC for OLAP, with a solution that consolidates project management, financial management, and strategy management and enable clients to replace disconnected standalone Excel, Word, and PowerPoint-based planning tools with a single application. The challenge was to integrate structured...

Tags: Financial Reporting, Financial, Performance, Scalability, Cubus, Microsoft Excel, Financial Management, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Finance, Management

Case studies 2009-06-01

Collaboration Return-On-Investment

"Competition has its place in the marketplace or against last year's performance -- perhaps even against another office or individual where there is no particular interdependence, no need to cooperate. But cooperation in the workplace is as important to free enterprise as...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Environment, Business World, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-29

The 10 biggest mistakes IT managers make

Guest post: Certain common IT management mistakes can make you less effective, hamper your career advancement, and even jeopardize your job. Executive coach Joey Smith has spent years working with IT management and he put together this list of the mistakes he’s seen most often. For more posts like this...

Tags: Job, IT Administration, Information Technology, IT Manager, Personal Development, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-12

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

IBM Cognos 8 Data Manager: Data Integration for the Last Mile to BI

Business Intelligence BI and Performance Management PM capabilities such as reporting and analysis, scorecarding, event lifecycle management, planning, and budgeting require an integrated architecture to ensure that all data assets are being brought to users in a consistent manner. IBM Cognos 8 Data Manager creates this data foundation for effective,...

Tags: Cognos Inc., Last Mile, Data Integration, IBM Corp., IBM Cognos 8 Data Manager, Business Intelligence, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Performance Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2009-03-01

Support implementation of ITIL-based processes with a unified approach to managing assets and services

Until recently, internal IT departments have been relatively insulated from the corporate concerns of staying ahead of the competition. Certainly, IT has always existed in support of maintaining a competitive advantage, but that support has been largely tactical, given that IT has historically been viewed as a cost center, not...

Tags: Asset, Information Technology, ITIL, IT Operation, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-01-28

Effective Performance Management: Integrate Methods Under One Umbrella

Performance management - when narrowly defined - spans so many individual managerial methods that few people seem to agree on what it is. But define it broadly while ignoring integration of these methods, and it risks becoming little more than a slogan for a disjointed mix of projects. A performance...

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

White papers 2008-11-01

University's Web Budgeting Saves Costs and Improves Forecasts

The University of New South Wales UNSW is one of Australia's leading teaching and research facilities. As the university expanded, its finance team struggled to gather sufficiently comprehensive budget data from individual faculties and schools. In February 2008, UNSW implemented the CALUMO Performance Management suite, which is built on Microsoft...

Tags: Web, Microsoft Corp., Financial Accounting, Personal Finance, Finance

Case studies 2008-11-01

TAC Prepared for Aggressive Growth with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

TAC, a Schneider Electric company, provides building automation solutions based on Open Integrated Systems for facilities IT. Facing aggressive growth, TAC Americas found it increasingly difficult to conduct month-end financial closing and report results to Schneider Electric. With the help of Artis Consulting, a firm specializing in design, development, and...

Tags: Schneider Electric, Financial, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Financial Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2008-09-12

Performance Management 2.0: Broader or Better? (Part 1 of 2)

Performance Management 2.0 is being referenced by some IT research firms as an advance over Performance Management 1.0. Does PM 2.0 simply mean it is broader and more inclusive than the PM 1.0 traditional view of being simply a CFO-driven initiative of financial reporting, budgeting and dashboard dials? Or is...

Tags: Performance, Performance Management 2.0, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2008-01-30

ITIL® v2 Practitioner: Agree and Define Management

View Available Dates and LocationsIn this course, you'll learn to implement and manage the processes involved in delivering quality service at a justifiable cost to both the internal IT organization and to the customer. Learn planning, implementation, and continuous service improvement techniques specific to the Service Level...

Tags: Agree, Business Operations, Certification, Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Financial Management, Financial Planning, Global Knowledge, Information Technology, Investment, It Operations, It service Management, It Services, ITIL, Process Improvement, Quality, Service Level Management, Service Management, Training And Certification

Training 2008-01-01

Is Linux enough for open source medical advocates?

Is Linux enough for open source medical advocates?Linux Vendor Lock-in?[i]without giving them the power to switch vendors which open source delivers naturally[/i]Is not Linux and Open Source supposed to do away with software Lock-in?Just a matter of time.Hospitals are one of the killing zones pardon the pun for proprietary software...

Tags: Operating systems, HEALTHCARE, hospital, McKesson, open source, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-12-11

Sell magic

Every once in a while I get credible seeming "deepthroat" e-mail -unfortunately these aren't always completely right, as witness this report last January from an Apple insider saying that the iPhone's application processor would be a PPC enabled core made by Samsung. Although he may have been completely right...

Tags: Sun, Hardware, Enterprise Policy

Blog posts 2007-07-18

Catbird secures virtualized environments

A short while ago, I had a wonderful conversation with Edmundo Costa, CEO, and Tamra Newberger, VP of marketing, of Catbird , about a new product they were launching. Since I've spoken with them many times in the past when they were associated with Tarantella and the Santa Cruz Operation,...

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Blog posts 2007-07-05

Hyperion Performance-Based Budgeting for Government

With Hyperion Performance-Based Budgeting for Government software, government organizations can integrate budget formulation, budget execution, performance management, and reporting. Using Hyperion's centralized, Web-based solution, your entire organization will work with one version of the truth. Hyperion Performance-Based Budgeting for Government software provides a single, enterprise-level solution for budget formulation, execution...

Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Performance, Budgeting, Government, Financial Services, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2005-05-01

Best Practices in Selecting Performance Management Software

A new generation of sophisticated, Web-based database applications is changing the way companies look at planning and financial reporting. These corporate performance management CPM solutions combine a wide variety of financial functions into a single suite, resulting in one real-time data pool for budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, reporting, business modeling, strategic...

Tags: Performance, Best Practice, Corporate Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2005-02-01

Tactical Issues and Best Practices

Ask most CFOs and finance directors to describe an ideal forecasting and budgeting process, and they'll likely portray it as part of an overall integrated performance management framework, ultimately driven by value-based measures. At the same time, however, they'll admit that this vision involves a significant transformation to their current...

Tags: Budgeting, Best Practice, Forecasting, Financial Services, Performance Management, Sales Force Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sales

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