Mid-Market Heads for the Cloud
New Longview Release Includes XBRL Reporting
The Power of Profitability Data
Only a Culture of Metrics Can Tackle Risk
Study: BI Initiatives Often Disappoint
BI and BPM "Mature"? Far From It, Says Ventana
Most businesses are still in the early stages of leveraging business intelligence (BI) and BPM technologies, according to a massive benchmarking study by Ventana Research....
The Dangers of Managing to the Short Term
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Ventana: New Information Builders Product Is “Eye-Popping”
Managers Still Going With "Gut Feeling"
Companies Are Getting the XBRL Message
What Will the New Decade Hold for BPM?
What Will the New Decade Hold for BPM? For performance management methodologies and software, the 2000s were a decade of revolutionary change. What’s next? BPM guru Gary Cokins peers into his crystal ball in this thoughtful piece at the Big Fat Finance Blog. ...
Why Budgets Don't Last
Gartner: Open-Source BI Set to Explode
Long regarded as a low-end option, open-source products have been steadily gaining ground in the business intelligence (BI) software market, according to a new report from Gartner Inc. The technology research firm expects open-source implementations to grow five-fold over the next three years....
SAP Unveils Sustainability Management Tool
Just in time for the global climate-fest in Copenhagen — and not coincidentally, I’m sure — SAP today released SAP BusinessObjects Sustainability Performance Management (SPM), an application that helps companies set sustainability goals and objectives, measure and communicate performance, and reduce data collection costs and errors....
Planning Still Shaky; Finance Pros Still Nervous
Companies' performance management processes are still under intense strain in this turbulent economy....
CPM Success Calls for a Singular Approach
The number of improvement tools a company uses is just as important as the actual type of tool they choose, according to corporate performance management (CPM) expert Bob Paladino. For best results, Paladino says companies should limit themselves to just one approach. ...
New Adaptive Planning Release Features 10-D Cube
On-demand BPM firm Adaptive Planning has released version 6.0 of its product, featuring a new multidimensional modeling capability....
Actuate Tool Helps Governments Track Stimulus Funds
A new performance management product from Actuate helps governments track stimulus package funds usage...
Are Rolling Forecasts Gaining Acceptance in the Downturn?
BPM software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor Adaptive Planning just completed a survey that reveals how pessimistic U.S. finance executives are about the near future of the economy — and how their forecasting practices are changing as a result. ...
Infor PM 10 Supports XBRL
Now that the SEC has released its final rule on XBRL reporting (stating that the largest companies will have to start filing financial statements in XBRL format later this year), Infor has announced that the latest release of its performance management software suite, Infor PM 10, provides support for XBRL reporting....
PURE Technology Platform
PureShare, a provider of Web-based metrics monitoring and management reporting software,has introduced a new product....
CA GRC Manager v2.0
CA has announced a new version of CA GRC Manager....
PureShare ActiveMetrics v2.0
On Wednesday, PureShare released a new version of its ActiveMetrics performance dashboard software....
Vertical Performance Management From Oracle
Over the past month, Oracle has released new versions of a few products that have a vertical performance management flavor....