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Business Intelligence Advantage - A Newsletter brought to you by Data Management Group
 
June, 2007
Components of a Successful EPM Strategy

In Brief
Oracle acquires Hyperion; Business Objects acquires Cartesis
 What does this mean in the Enterprise Performance Management world? The pursuit of a seamless, integrated, end-to-end solution. The major vendors are seeking to present an integrated solution to their clients. They want to say “come to us and we will enable you undertake all of your budgeting, consolidation, reporting, etc. processes within the same infrastructure.” The easiest way to do this right now is to acquire best-of-breed software companies that can plug the holes in the vendors’ arsenal. In the long-term however, the major vendors will have to rebuild their infrastructure from the ground-up with all the different tools integrated based on a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA). The problem with this approach is that it is fiendishly difficult to accomplish.

Community
Data Management Group has always been committed to community and demonstrated this once again at the DC Area’s Business Objects Crystal Users Group meeting held this last May 14th. The purpose of the quarterly meeting is to provide members a forum to share the benefits of their experiences with Business Objects products. Four members of Data Management Group’s technical delivery team shared their knowledge and experience by responding to questions during the Technical Question and Answer portion of the meeting. If you would like Data Management Group to attend or speak at your user group meeting please contact us.

Featured Articles
Components of a Successful Enterprise Performance Management Strategy
Proposing an Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) strategy over the short to medium term inevitably requires anticipating the needs not just of immediate beneficiaries of an EPM system, the financial department, but also potential beneficiaries of the fully integrated enterprise-wide EPM system. These might include departments like sales, marketing, retail store managers as well as other external stakeholders like suppliers, lenders, etc. A modern day EPM infrastructure should consider the following components:

  1. Technical infrastructure
  2. Enterprise portal-based platforms
  3. EPM innovations like Software as a Services (SaaS)

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  • Unable to Select a Corporate Dashboard as the Initial View in InfoView
    In BusinessObjects Enterprise XI InfoView, after clicking Select next to Corporate Dashboard on the General tab of the Preferences window, the Select screen appears blank. More>>

White Papers
Implementing Profitability Analytics
This paper describes how activity-based costing (ABC) contributes to more reliable customer, product, and channel profitability analysis, concluding with two brief case studies where financial services providers have successfully deployed ABC. More>>

Better Margin Management with Cost-to-Serve
This paper examines the impact that cost-to-serve analysis can have on an organization's ability to manage costs and profitability, and discusses the role of ABC techniques and the possible benefits that could result. More>>

DMG In The News
Data Management Group Partners with Business Objects for Launch of Open Appliance Initiative
Data Management Group, a leading strategic consulting firm focused on helping organizations make better business decisions based on end-to-end business intelligence and enterprise performance management solutions, today announced it extended its relationship with Business Objects by joining the Business Objects Open Appliance Initiative (OAI). This new global partner network is designed to offer customers an array of BI appliances that provide innovative and streamlined ways to deploy integrated BI and data warehousing solutions within their organizations. More>>

Data Management Group Earns Platinum Status for Business Objects Partner Program
Data Management Group is very pleased to announce that they have achieved Platinum Level partner status in the Business Objects Solution Provider Partner Program – the highest recognition level in the program. More>>

Next Month
  • Leveraging Data Marts
  • Creating an Enterprise Performance Management Strategy Webcast

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In This Issue

Creating an EPM Strategy - Web Seminar

WHAT OUR CLIENTS ARE SAYING
"We were immediately able to gain insight into the production SAP® system and generate business intelligence for executive stakeholders as well as gain insight and understanding of the performance of the Municipal Authority. ROI was received immediately by leveraging existing internal BI resources for reports development lessening the workload on our internal ABAP report writer."

Don Crawley
Manager, Application Development & Support
Information Technology
Halifax Regional Municipality
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE EVENTS
CONFERENCES
2007 COMTO National Meeting and Training Conference - Miami, FL, June 22-27
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Reporting & Analytics 2007 Conference - Orlando, FL, October 15-17
Look for Data Management Group at Reporting & Analytics 2007! This unparalleled event attracts high-level decision-makers who are looking for new and innovative ways to maximize the effectiveness of their enterprise data collection and analysis, and also improve the timeliness and accuracy of their SAP reports.
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WEB SEMINAR
Creating an Enterprise Performance Management Strategy - July 12, 2007
Attend this web seminar if you are seeking to understand how to create an EPM roadmap strategy. Business managers and senior IT executives looking to sell EPM projects internally and consultants who want to understand how EPM tools can be integrated should also attend. More>>


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