Ventana Research believes that every organization should focus on continuous improvement in its ability to support the people and process aspects of performance management more effectively.

To drive and monitor performance against the competition, market leaders deploy business analytics systems that enable them to rapidly implement, modify, and expand their applications for strategic planning, sales, marketing, operations analysis and reporting.

Read this case study and find out how Caffe Nero has more insight into the business and the performance of individual products, branches and staff. More confidence to make quick, informed decisions as the information is based on fact, which drives better business and customer service.

Scorecards and dashboards are being recognized as critical in performance management; however there is clear need for a greater understanding. This white paper discusses the dangers of implementing either without a detailed understanding, and offers guidance on these matters.

Watch Computing and delegates at the Cognos Performance 2008 roadshow discuss the challenges.

When poorly performing code slips into production and a customer-facing application goes down, the organization will ultimately lose revenue, customers and credibility. Read this white paper from Quest to see how cost- efficiency and reliability in developing applications can be achieved.

Business Intelligence (BI) is now moving beyond strategic and trend analytics, permeating all aspects of the enterprise. This explosion in query volume of increasing complexity means underlying technologies are feeling the strain. Discover how new tools are overcoming these challenges.

Keys to Effective Dashboards: Data, Data, Data An oftenoverlooked aspect, data is one of the most important things to consider in designing dashboards. It is also important to ask yourself: Is the data reliable? Is it timely? Is any data missing? Is it consistent across all dashboards?

Based on an IBM survey of financial institutions, this paper looks at risk management from a financial perspective, focusing on sustainability of profits and the benefits of accurately linking risk to decision-making in your business strategy.

What will the Enterprise of the Future look like? To answer that question, IBM spoke with more than 1,000 CEO s from around the world. These conversations, together with the statistical and financial analyses, provide a unique perspective on the future of the enterprise.

Microsoft Dynamics™ AX is an integrated, adaptable business management solution that helps you and your people make business decisions with greater confidence. Microsoft Dynamics AX works like and with familiar Microsoft software, automating and streamlining business processes and connecting you with global customers, business partners and subsidiaries in a way that helps you drive business success.

Because F5 application delivery products are modular, they're extensible by design and can easily incorporate new functions and quickly adapt to changing application/business challenges. The following are available Product Modules and Feature Modules for BIG-IP application traffic management products.

With Enterprise Manager, you can archive and safeguard device configurations for contingency planning, configure new devices from a central location without manually working on each device, reduce your labor costs for managing multiple F5 devices and easily and quickly roll-out software upgrades and security patches.

BI enables your organisation to track, understand, and manage your business in order to maximize enterprise performance. This white Paper looks at the framework for measuring the benefits of Business Intelligence.

This White Paper contains an in-depth overview of how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your organisation, regardless of size through the effective implementation of a Business Intelligence (BI) solution.

Forrester assessed 10 leading business performance solutions (BPS) vendors across 83 criteria in a product evaluation. Download this report now to read their findings.

Are you managing your company’s performance as effectively as possible? This white paper discusses how a lack of integrated enterprise performance management (EPM) results can make it difficult to identify which areas of the business are reaching
full potential.

Cognos Planning is an integrated solution for planning, budgeting, forecasting, modeling, consolidation and financial reporting. It lets you create clear-cut performance strategies, turn strategy into discrete plans and budgets, provide real-time feedback to planning process participants.

No matter how good its products, or innovative its services, no organisation can perform to its full potential without an adequate planning structure in place. Allowing enterprises to allocate their most precious (and finite) resources — money and people — in response to changing conditions and objectives, todays enterprise planning solutions facilitate a dynamic planning process that both promotes best business practices and spawns new ones.

This white paper demonstrates how an Enterprise Performance Management system connects people and
processes, metrics, businesses, and systems. It introduces important criteria for successful design and implementation while also exploring the far-reaching benefits of EPM: improved decision-making and greater competitive advantage