Enterprise performance management starts with a simple question: "How's my organization performing today?" But unless you can get a straight answer, it ends there, too.
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) answers the simple questions first. Our business intelligence solutions offer rich visuals and personalized dashboards that make it easy for business managers to monitor the metrics that matter. It puts at their fingertips the key performance indicators (KPIs) that make proactive and predictive business management a reality. This allows managers at all levels to keep track of the metrics most important to them on a daily basis. With a head's up view of vital information, everyone now has the ability to manage to exceptions, monitor trends, and make smart decisions.
Of course, EPM runs deeper than high-level metrics, KPIs and dashboards. It's a multi-disciplinary, cross-functional process that enables improved enterprise performance through alignment, visibility, and collaboration among business units and functional areas. More than just connecting strategy and goals to metrics, analytics and methodology are required to understand which metrics are important and how they should be measured. The pay-off is that the right information gets to the right people, at the right time, to make an impact.
Business Objects EPM runs similarly deep. Our customers' EPM solutions are built on the world's leading business intelligence (BI) platform to provide real-time insights into business performance, web-based reporting and alerts, and the power to drill seamlessly into detail data. A suite of enterprise analytic applications and our application framework provide deep analytic content with the ability to customize to the needs of your organization. It gives you the power to manage - and improve - your organizational performance, from factory floor to executive suite:
- Monitor and measure performance against goals across sales, marketing, operations, finance, supply chain, customer and product management
- Align and optimize technologies and business processes, tactics and strategies, resources and objectives, business unit and corporate goals with metrics
- Focus and execute on bottom-line business drivers across operational divisions to enhance performance enterprise-wide
- Collaborate and communicate atop a scalable web-based BI framework for faster, smarter decision-making
- Analyze and anticipate revenue cycles, supply chain and product performance, customer behavior, and more from single browser interface
- Leverage existing resources through a flexible, standards-based BI platform
Insight Across the Enterprise
EPM is not a new idea. Businesses have always sought to grow revenue and reduce spending to maximize profitability. But today, it's more difficult than ever. Infrastructures are more complex. Data volumes have swollen. And in a challenging economy, the stakes are higher than ever.
Business Objects offers customers a modular EPM approach that may be deployed iteratively by individual or hybrid functional areas and business units, or across the enterprise. Its end-to-end functionality ranges from automated back-end data integration - which Gartner calls the biggest challenge to effective EPM - to easy-to-use end-user dashboards. It supports leading business process methodologies, including Six Sigma, Balanced Scorecard, and Economic Value Added (EVA).
- BusinessObjects Dashboard Manager: Enables the deployment of powerful dashboards to provide visibility, alignment and insight across the enterprise. More >>
- BusinessObjects Application Foundation: An open framework for developing and deploying packaged or customized analytic applications, which incorporates workflow-driven, rules-based processes for systematic and sustainable reporting and analysis. More >>
- BusinessObjects Analytics: Integrated analytic applications for Customer Intelligence, Product & Service Intelligence, Supply Chain Intelligence, and Operations Intelligence feature prebuilt metrics, best-practice analytics, alerts and exception reporting, and drill-through to detail data. More >>
- BusinessObjects Data Integrator: Powerful integration platform sources data in real time from SAP, Oracle, J.D. Edwards, Siebel, and many others. More >>
EPM from Business Objects works with your existing systems to intelligently structure information and processes so that you can understand and act. EPM is driven from a strategic foundation of business intelligence (BI) systems and analytics across the entire organization. Having this foundation allows you to enable a process to drive improved organization performance. It enables you to align your organization against common goals, manage metrics and drive action. Maybe most importantly, it gives you the ability to answer the important question, "how is my organization doing today?"
Further Information
If you would like to know more about BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management, please contact us.
Success Stories
- Customers Worldwide Turn to Business Objects for EPM
- Certification of Integration to PeopleSoft EPM 8.0 Announced
- BusinessObjects Dashboard Manager Announced
- Business Objects and A.T. Kearney Seminar Series to Share Best Practices in EPM
White Papers
Driving Organizational Performance with Strategic BI - PDF- Enabling Performance Management across the Enterprise - PDF 614KB
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