Business Metrics

Another quarter-end. You know what that means—masses of data to analyze, complex reports to generate, and a looming deadline. This white paper offers valuable tips and tricks to accelerate your company’s reporting and analysis.

This white paper focuses on best practices that will enable companies to transform the planning cycle into an evolutionary process, bringing tangible and intangible returns for the organization and leadership back into the finance department. You can improve business management through the application and adherence of budgeting and planning best practices. Read on to learn the twelve best practices that have been adopted by leading companies.

Learn how leading companies employ Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software to automate financial processes (budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and planning) that spreadsheets complete on a manual basis and reap the rewards of advanced data analysis.

Discover how leading organizations leverage performance management software to obtain commitment from senior management, forge effective partnerships with auditors, and monitor progress throughout the year.

Spreadsheets are error-prone and unable to support the critical nature of important financial processes. Read this free guide to learn how leading companies have broken the spreadsheet habit, adopting packaged applications specifically-designed for budgeting and forecasting.

Built for non-IT professionals, this white paper explains the differences between Business Intelligence (BI) and Corporate Performance Management (CPM), two fast-growing forms of software utilized by leading finance departments today.

Seeking to leverage the power of emerging technologies, finance and IT leaders at LUSH Cosmetics used advanced Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software from Prophix to successfully predict customer purchasing patterns during a recent holiday season.

Having experienced challenges with spreadsheets and other reporting tools, Porter Airlines Inc. obtained advanced software that would allow them to model complex business problems, including the viability of their air routes, and analyze the health of their growing operations.

Optimization is the key to delivering ever-increasing ROI, with flat or declining marketing budgets. In this whitepaper, learn best practices for optimizing your marketing activities, and do more with less.

Download this whitepaper to learn more about how you can quickly make informed decisions based on massive amounts of data.

Use drag-and-drop, autocharting and data filtering to understand your data.

This paper explores the shortcomings of traditional reporting tools and explains how the adoption of advanced business visualization can dramatically improve everyday processes and results.

Gaining Insights from Your Data Faster than Ever and Sharing the Insights with Others

From Basics to Big Data with SAS® Visual Analytics

A Research Report Detailing How Organizations are Using Data Visualization to Succeed with Big Data

Reaching a pinnacle of strategic importance, expense management has found high prominence within today’s organizations. Discover Aberdeen’s latest best practices for effectively managing T&E expenses.

The Definitive Guide to Marketing Metrics and Marketing Analytics shows marketing professionals how to talk the talk of C-level executives in terms of forecasting and reporting, and walk the walk to the revenue table by leveraging metrics that matter.

Read this white paper to learn about 10 principles to follow in order to build an effective human capital plan for your organization.

According to Forrester, most organizations today are only using 12% of their available data and only 37% of organizations are planning some type of big data technology project. At a time when companies are seeing volume of information increase quickly, it’s time to take a step back and look at the impact of big data. Join Mike Gualtieri, Principal Analyst at Forrester, for this webcast exploring the importance of integration in your big data initiatives. Discover how your ability to operate, make decisions, reduce risks and serve customers is inextricably linked to how well you’re able to handle your big data. Continue on to gain insight into: •3 key big data management activities you need to consider •Technologies you need to create for your big data ecosystem •A multi-dimensional view of the customer is the holy grail of individualization •Overcoming key integration challenges And more!

This paper addresses the challenges of planning, budgeting and forecasting in a spreadsheet environment and highlights the advantages of using a software solution designed specifically for dynamic planning. The business challenges and drivers are discussed, including organizational and technological best practices to follow. A Planning Software Selection Matrix is included to assist decision makers in selecting the most appropriate planning software for their specific business processes and needs.

This paper will help you understand the value of an FCOE and show you how one might work in your organization.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, with over 1,000 branches and 50,000 employees was using spreadsheets to staff its branch network. When they looked to desktop process analytics from Verint they achieved major improvements in productivity and customer experience. Watch this case study to learn more about how desktop process analytics can use big data to help your organization.

Now is the time for the finance organization to step up to the challenges and become a strategic business partner in the deployment of profitability analysis across the enterprise. This requires a fundamental shift—in terms of both vision and execution. Tomorrow’s winners will be the ones that are not content simply to survive this economic onslaught, but work to emerge nimble enough to thrive. Profitability analysis is critical in this context. Read this whitepaper to learn more about profitability analysis and its benefits.

Profitability analysis is important to all companies. But in times of economic uncertainty, it becomes even more critical because organizations need a comprehensive and forwardlooking view of profitability to ensure that they can remain financially viable, whatever the economic circumstances. For companies to be successful, they need automated systems that enable interactive profitability analysis that can be shared across a broad swath of users. They also need robust, advanced analytics, to provide detailed granular metrics for assessing profitability and measuring performance. IBM offers solutions that can meet those needs.

When an unpredictable economy brings sudden shifts in revenues, costs, and profits, Software solutions can give Finance the ability to anticipate and adapt. But Finance needs the help of IT. Specifically, Finance needs the help of inspiring IT Managers who can lay out the roadmap that will take Finance from the automation of discrete processes to the broader task of transforming the business to compete successfully in a challenging global economy.