The Revere Group has a collection of presentations centered around Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Corporate Performance Management and we have gathered them here for your review.
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Whether it’s called Business Performance Management, Corporate Performance Management or Enterprise Performance Management, effective strategy and decision-making requires effective Performance Management maturity and discipline. Performance Management relies on a disciplined organization leveraging mature processes, methodologies and systems. Many organizations struggle to execute due to weakness in one or many areas of performance management. Many BI software vendors are touting a new and improved approach to the traditional challenges of enabling sound business decisions through faster and better information delivery.
Download Corporate Performance Management Lessons Learned: Hype or Reality?
Many executives have been sold on the vision of a corporate dashboard. However, the theory and practicality of deploying such a solution presents challenges for both business users and information technology professionals. Learn what’s real and attainable for any organization by highlighting the key building blocks for jump starting a corporate dashboard and find out what performance management enablers make it possible.
Download Performance Dashboards: What's Real, Practical and Effective?
In the midst of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on ERP, BI and reporting, many organizations continue to use spreadsheets to budget, plan and close the books. As a result, the role of Finance has been reduced from guiding strategy execution to tactical financial operations. Learn how a new breed of performance management technologies can increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the finance organization by replacing manual, error-prone processes and enabling forward-looking analytical applications.
Download Streamlining Finance: Real and Immediate ROI for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
Data Warehousing over the past ten years seemed to deliver little other than bad news. On average, data warehouses have taken over two years to deliver, cost over $2.5 million and had a 50% chance of being successful. So why does the discussion continue? Because companies continue to struggle with the traditional challenges that data warehouses are supposed to solve; one-version-of-the-truth, master data management, consolidated enterprise-wide reporting, root-cause analysis and managing history.
Download Reinventing Data Warehousing: How an Incremental Data Transformation and Alignment Strategy is Central to any Business Intelligence or Performance Management Solution
Implementing performance management tools are just one aspect of a performance management initiative. Without proactively identifying and managing the changes in behavior that will lead to long-term success, analytic applications are often under-utilized or not used at all. Organizational change management helps your business users go from “oh no, not another tool” to “how did we ever live without this”.
Download Making it Stick: Organizational Change Management Challenges Associated with Performance Management Initiatives
If you are like most, over the years your company has implemented a number of different reporting software products, from pixel-perfect bill printing programs, to Mainframe green-bar reports, to Crystal reports embedded with your ERP, to custom OLAP solutions for budgeting and planning.
The problem is that multiple software means multiple security setups, servers, support staff and most importantly multiple versions of the truth. Only recently have the largest BI vendors begun to offer integrated product suites that promise to reduce your Total Cost of Ownership.
Ventana Research advises CIOs to first standardize Business Intelligence solutions to achieve rapid cost savings and to improve performance management by increasing both IT and business agility and effectiveness to drive additional value for the company. While the concept seems simple, it requires a clear strategy, internal negotiation, planning and execution.
Download Business Intelligence Standardization: What? Why? How?
As organizations continue to look for ways to reduce the cost of ownership of software and business applications, managed services, outsourcing and offshoring have gained more and more attention. However, performance management continues to be one of the hardest skill sets for companies to grow and maintain and least likely to outsource. This presentation will discuss the options and benefits associated with a managed services approach to performance management solution.
Download Performance Management Service
