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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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Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

Business Functions 1.53 (Windows)

This Excel add-in has 500+ high-performance functions and is a comprehensive toolkit for business planning and analysis. It is designed to make financial models such as business plans and budgets faster to build, less error-prone, and easier to understand and maintain. It does this through integrated families of functions, in...

Tags: High-performance, Microsoft Windows, Business Functions, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Leadership, Office Suites, Software, Management

Software downloads 2009-11-06

modu Deploys Best Practices and Gains Competitive Edge With Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12

modu Ltd. wanted to establish best practice processes to compete effectively in global telecommunications market and improve reporting processes to get greater visibility into financial performance. The challenge was to achieve greater control over budgeting and improve purchasing and inventory management. modu Ltd. deployed Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 applications...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, Best Practice, Modu, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Finance, Software

Case studies 2009-10-01

IBM Case Study: Blue Mountain

Blue Mountain is Ontario's largest mountain resort, located just 2 hours north of Toronto, and 11 km west of Collingwood. It needed to enable analysts, managers, and executives to view data across multiple dimensions and drill down into the specific data underlying those summaries. It deployed a Business Intelligence BI...

Tags: Blue Mountain Arts, Analysis, IBM Corp., Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Pricing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing

Case studies 2009-08-01

Address Today#$#s Pressing Education Challenges With Flexible, Low-Cost, Energy-Saving Networking Solutions

Public and private schools across the U.S. are facing some downright brutal choices when it comes to staffing, budgeting, personal security and discipline. On one hand, students, staff and visitors need to be protected from aberrant physical behavior, unsavory Internet activities and hacked networks. On the other, there's pressure to...

Tags: D-Link Systems, Education, Network, Home Networking, Networking, Personal Technology

White papers 2009-07-01

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

Improve Energy Efficiency and Manage Power Consumption With Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2008 R2 is designed to provide better energy efficiency and performance by reducing power consumption and lowering overhead costs. Windows Server 2008 R2 helps reduce power usage at the server level, enabling server energy consumption to scale according to workload. It also helps reduce power consumption at the...

Tags: Energy Efficiency, Microsoft Windows Server, Power Consumption, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

White papers 2009-06-01

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Improves Budgeting, Forecasting, and Reporting Capabilities

VTT wanted to replace existing enterprise planning and budgeting solutions with a consolidated platform that can support the organization's future business needs, which require supporting structural changes with quickly implemented calculation models and obtain a financial budgeting, forecasting, and reporting solution that provides reliable and problem-free functionality for the organization's...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, Budgeting, Forecasting, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales

Case studies 2009-05-01

Scenario Planning and Budgeting: Agility in a Volatile Economy

SAS provides the integrated solution and toolset that brings together all the components one needs in order to become more adaptable and agile in an unstable economy - planning, reporting, budgeting, consolidation, risk assessment, forecasting, strategy development, scorecards, key performance indicators and optimization. In short, SAS Financial Management delivers the...

Tags: Budgeting, SAS Institute, Personal Finance

White papers 2009-05-01

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

PerformancePoint Server, Microsoft datacenters feel the pinch

PerformancePoint Server, Microsoft datacenters feel the pinchWTF ????A $500 datacenter ..... What is that a Wal-mart PC with Windows Xp ?By killing PerformancePoint Planning, Microsoft is leaving CPM marketScorecards and SharePoint are NOT CPM, Microsoft has now left the CPM market. From today MS have no no support of...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Performance management, typo, CPM, CPM market, PerformancePoint Planning Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., data center, Scorecards

Discussion threads 2009-01-26

Top Ten Reports in Clinical Performance Management

Finding ways to reduce the cost of clinical trials is on the agenda of every pharmaceutical company striving to remain profitable. Many are turning to clinical performance management software to manage and optimize their clinical trial activities. This platform unites critical data in one place. It lets one set goals...

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

White papers 2009-01-01

Momentum Webcast: Microsoft Business Intelligence: Improving Visibility Into Organizational Performance (Level 100)

Business leaders want to enable rapid decision-making capabilities at all levels throughout the organization. So it's no surprise that, for the third year in a row, Business Intelligence BI has topped analyst studies as a top technology spending priority for chief information officers. The presenter of this webcast discusses the...

Tags: Webcast, Performance, Microsoft Corp., Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2008-12-09

Shin Kong Life Insurance Improves System Performance With Robust Application Server

Shin Kong Life Insurance wanted to replace manual budgeting processes with a system that automates workflows to improve efficiency and remove antiquated DOS system and manual operations to minimize accounting errors and improve cost management. The challenge was to implement an application server that ensures high availability for the new...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Cost Management, Application Server, Server, Shin Kong Life Insurance, Managerial Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2008-12-01

Research Note Getting More From Your Current IT Investment

While improved application performance and reduced IT troubleshooting can have a real impact on IT and end user productivity, solutions such as application performance management can be overlooked in the budgeting prioritization process if they don't deliver clear business benefit. Nucleus's analysis of Vantage found that there were often enough...

Tags: Budgeting, Information Technology, IT Investment, Nucleus Research Inc., Strategy, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Management

White papers 2008-12-01