Businesses, especially finance departments, are challenged to be more effective at acting upon key performance indicators (KPIs). Flexible, yet powerful analytical tools can increase visibility to operational drivers. Read this paper to learn about technology solutions that can remove the responsibility of powerful performance management from IT. 

This executive brief presents the six "Rules of the Road" that can help you cut costs, increase cash flow and become more responsive to changing market conditions in the manufacturing industry. 

BI empowers companies with the ability to offer products and services at the lowest cost and with the greatest amount of efficiency and productivity possible- while returning the highest revenues and profits. Learn how BI can help you to establish a culture of measurement and begin a powerful cycle of continued improvement within your organization. 

This white paper introduces the concept of using an EPM Center of Excellence to help organizations realize the full potential of an enterprise performance management initiative and recommends best practices for creating a center that will succeed in the long term. 

In this white paper IDC discusses the growing body of evidence suggesting a direct link between investment in business analytics solutions and organizational performance. IDC highlights market trends that point toward more pervasive use of BI solutions. 

Datawatch Dashboards is a Flash-based, fully interactive dashboard solution that gives all levels of users a visual overview of operational performance with drill down capabilities allowing users to monitor, measure & manage KPIs. 

This paper investigates various levels of business intelligence, discusses the challenges organizations face with today's typical BI deployments, and highlights how many high-growth companies have implemented strategic, analytical, and operational initiatives to work seamlessly together to enhance performance and boost competitive advantage. 

Read this white paper to learn the four key initiatives for attacking network management inefficiency and how automation solutions from HP can help. 

The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating internal controls 

Read how GED Integrated Solutions went through the process of identifying and implementing metrics to drive its business process improvement program in 2002 and has since learned many important lessons in how to track and leverage business metrics to improve operational performance. 

In this webinar, learn how you can use business rules to rapidly respond to discovered relationships between data and performance. You will learn why strategies need to adapt to new conditions and how business process automation can benefit from updated business rules to effect change and manage exception cases. 

This webcast, featuring Nucleus Research, uncovers research findings from analyzing numerous deployments in business intelligence and performance management within an SAP environment. Discover why many companies are turning to one specific vendor for the benefits it provides over SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse.