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Data Management Group strives to provide clients with the most important business intelligence information so they can make knowledgeable decisions ensuring the success of their organizations. We have listed white papers from our partners, the top business intelligence vendors in the industry, to keep you up to speed on the value of Business Intelligence, industry trends, and business analysis.
Now more than ever, your peers are using Business Intelligence (BI) to help them increase operational efficiency, grow sales and customer satisfaction, reduce costs, and even gain competitive advantage. BI used to be too expensive and resource intensive for mid-size companies ... but not anymore! In this practical white paper, you'll learn why mid-size companies need BI, explanation of BI components, approaches for implementation, and real-life stories from other companies like yours!
Are you managing your company's performance as effectively as possible? Many organizations think they are, when actually they are using poorly integrated planning, reporting, and analysis systems that pass for enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions. This lack of integrated EPM results in inconsistencies in data and in legal and management reporting, an inability to track, measure, and improve performance, and poor execution on business strategy. It also burdens organizations with extra work and costs as well as critical delays when staff is forced to manually reconcile reports.
A new challenge confronts top managers in the federal government, fundamentally changing the way they run their agencies and programs. For many federal organizations, their very budgetary survival is at stake. This daunting challenge revolves around financial management and reporting, a subject you may think of as dry and exclusively restricted to accountants in green eyeshades.
Think again.
Government agencies of all types - health and human services, transportation, justice, public safety, treasury, higher education, and defense-face increasing pressure to improve the quality of the programs and services they deliver, while spending less to support them.
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.
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.
A step-by-step guide to how business intelligence can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization—regardless of its size. Your company is on a high growth path. You know that more time needs to be spent analyzing what's occurring and planning for the future, but you're not sure how to get there. The great news is business intelligence (BI) is not just for industry giants anymore and it can help your mid-size organization. Now is the time to transition from the spreadsheet as a primary analysis tool to BI that is a better fit for a growing company like yours.
How well does an organization evaluate and execute corporate strategy? Share this BusinessWeek Research Services report on the momentum of EPM among the world's largest organizations.
Trustworthy information is based on trustworthy data. And in order to better serve customers, increase profitability and revenue growth, improve operations, comply with government regulations and reporting equirements, and make better decisions—organizations need to access, integrate, and analyze data from a variety of sources. For this to be effective, the data must be accurate. In fact, the reliability of analysis is directly related to the quality of the underlying data. This is simply common sense and is reflected in one of the best-known adages of the computer industry: "garbage in, garbage out."
Along with the 10 essential steps for building data marts/data warehouses on SAP® R/3® data, read about prepackaged data warehouse solutions for faster, higher ROI.
SAP® R/3® provides a set of highly integrated software modules that perform common business functions such as enterprise resource planning (ERP). The data within these modules will be essential for underpinning your business intelligence (BI) projects, but the flexible, sophisticated, and transactional nature of SAP® R/3® makes this very challenging.
ERP systems like SAP® R/3® are designed for managing transactions not for supporting query, reporting, and analysis. Analyzing data directly from the underlying SAP® R/3® tables is complex, limited, and far from user-friendly. Industry experts agree that data warehousing is the best approach.
Tentative Past, Promising Future. Why EIM is finally becoming a reality.
If your company is like most, you are in the throes of planning for next year. While the implementation of these strategic, operational, and capital plans is not likely to occur until many months from now, it is crucial that you get a head start on the planning process. Perhaps even more important, your planning process needs to incorporate tools for keeping both project managers and executives abreast of progress in order to ensure maximum return on your investments. This article addresses not only the critical success factors for producing and managing capital budgets, but also addresses what happens once a budget is approved. For example, how do you identify and proactively respond to projects that are significantly over budget? Do you ‘borrow’ funds from other projects? Modify the initial scope? Reschedule the construction timeline? Too many organizations lose sight of actual expenditures and time to completion, making it difficult to assess the benefits realized. The ability to capture and report—in a timely and accurate manner—on all fluctuations in expenditures, budgets, and schedules is critical to realizing your projected return on invested capital.
This article takes a critical look at Excel’s strengths and weaknesses relative to EPM. It also evaluates traditional Enterprise Performance Management vendor interfaces with Excel and proposes an ideal Enterprise Performance Management solution—one that allows users to cost-effectively extend Excel’s core strengths in modeling and presentation while adding robust database functionality for secure enterprise-wide consolidation and collaboration.
An overview of SAP R/3 reporting tools as well as examination of the general reporting opportunities SAP R/3 clients have before them. SAP applications (R/3 in particular) are not known for robust and user-friendly reporting – rather, it is known for the very lack of these features. However, no one can claim you cannot report effectively from SAP R/3. This dichotomy of viewpoint is when you consider SAP R/3 has multiple resident reporting tools. Therefore, users facing the choice of which transactional reporting tool to select for a particular reporting need quickly discover their choice of reporting tool is as important as the report itself.
To manage performance, organizations must plan and manage the activities that drive performance. But establishing the connection between detailed daily activities, desired high-level outcomes, and budgets is one of the biggest challenges facing management in the public sector today. This paper takes a look at lessons learned in the private sector and how these can be applied to the public sector to transform business performance management.
Corporate health assessment applications have become critical to the existence of organizations and are no longer just simply part of a company's competitive strategy. Increased regulatory mandates, calling for financial transparency and near flawless execution of strategy, have forced executives and CFOs in particular to satisfy inquiries from their respective boards, the SEC, and stockholders quickly and accurately. This white paper addresses how CFOs should focus their efforts in order to plan, budget and forecast effectively.
Your strategic planning process shouldn't stop after executives meet offsite to create a plan. To make sure you follow through on your strategy, break down your planning process into these six phases.
Enterprise Performance Management works with your existing systems to intelligently structure information and processes so that you can understand and act. Enterprise Performance Management is driven from a strategic foundation of business intelligence systems common across an organization.
From vision to technology, technology to system, A Cognos white paper.
A Practical Guide to Business Intelligence Standardization.
Gartner has identified the "Fatal Flaws" that prevent organizations from realizing the promise of business intelligence. Here are seven steps you can take with Cognos 8 business intelligence to avoid making them in your organization.
A Framework for Measuring the Benefits of Business Intelligence Solutions.
Read how OLAP and multidimensional analysis provides organizations with the deep business insight needed to make more informed decisions.
There are many different factors involved in meeting the requirements of a wide-ranging law like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. With all these issues, technology and systems play a key role in helping organizations remain in compliance.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) proposes standards regarding the security of individual health information. To understand the impact of these standards on the Information Technology (IT) environment within the healthcare organization, it is useful to examine the regulations and the applicable software tools and technologies that may be used to create, maintain, transmit and store health information.
White paper outlining how BusinessObjects XI query and analysis tools enable users to identify trends and find root causes in data from relational and OLAP data sources.
Spreadsheet-based planning is inherently error prone and negates real-time, version control, data relevance and confidence, among other planning necessities.
This paper introduces the Microsoft BI Platform and demonstrates how solutions that extend business intelligence to all levels of the organization deliver a higher return on the investment in data management and analysis systems as well as increased competitive advantage.
A comprehensive examination of the return on investment (ROI) for analytic applications. After visiting 43 organizations at locations ranging from Seattle to Copenhagen, the message is clear: businesses that make an investment in analytics can achieve a significant and rapid return because of increased efficiencies and expanded opportunity.
Comprehensive Enterprise Performance Management
This white paper outlines the business case and integration scenarios for EPM with Hyperion. This paper includes three customer integration scenarios with Hyperion applications. Target is senior level business sponsors, including finance, and senior IT management.
Seven Proven Steps to Superior Business Execution
Suggests ways to make planning successful, from high participation and real-time alignment to timeframe appropriate planning.
Why Standardizing Business Intelligence is Critical
Outlines key pain points around enterprise planning and how Cognos software addresses them.
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