Enterprise Performance Management

Enterprise Performance Management

Controlling the Future of Your Business

In today's increasingly global and competitive business environment, it's not enough to know where you want your business to go. You must plan faster and do more with potentially less budget and resources. At the same time, you must be incredibly efficient and more precise with every decision, while complying with regulatory requirements.

Being responsible for profitability, growth, shareholder value, strategy, regulatory compliance, and investor relations, executives must prioritize strategic goals, modify plans based on financial and operational changes, and empower all stakeholders to make more calculated decisions. Understanding changes to enterprise performance requires monitoring, analysis, risk assessment, timely reporting, and action based on information coming from many different parts of the business – including external partners, vendors, and customers.

Demonstrating operational success entails closing the gap between strategy and operational execution by cascading corporate goals down into department relevant metrics; ensuring accountability; enabling intuitive modeling, monitoring, and analysis; and streamlining execution of strategy-guided plans. Information needs to be available when your organization needs it to create a competitive edge and enable greater control of business operations.

Become a Performance-Driven Organization with Financial and Operational Performance Management

To help you transform your organization into one that is performance driven, you need solutions that link together your processes and data to provide a common view of your business. Our solutions for enterprise performance management helps you capitalize on the value of your corporate data, enabling your organization to become more agile and competitive by providing organizational alignment, visibility, and greater confidence.

Our solutions for enterprise performance management offer comprehensive functionality for:

  • Strategy management - Set your goals, map your strategies, and then monitor and manage performance from high-level objectives down to operational metrics.
  • Business Planning and Consolidation - Increase accuracy in planning at every level in your organization, while reducing budget cycles and associated costs. Accelerate and improve your statutory and management reporting and decision making.
  • Financial consolidation - Complete your financial consolidation and reporting cycles faster – with complete confidence in your data.
  • Profitability and cost management - Identify the causes of underperformance, and take action to reduce costs and optimize profitability across dimensions such as product, customer, and channel.
  • Spend Analytics - Realize measurable cost savings, and align sourcing goals with corporate goals by rationalizing and strategizing on supplier relationships.

Customer Spotlight

Recticel

Brussels, Belgium-based Recticel is a chemical company that produces a wide variety of daily comfort-enhancing materials, including polyurethane foam filling for seats, mattresses, and slat bases, insulation material, interior comfort for cars, and an extensive range of industrial and domestic applications.

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Nissan

Business Objects offer rich financial reporting and multidimensional analysis capabilities, along with a robust and integrated product line - helping Nissan achieve its quality standards and leverage an open, flexible, and scalable reporting solution.

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César

Based in France, the César Group is the world leader in party supplies and accessories, maintaining a catalog of more than 5,000 items it develops, manufactures, and distributes.

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Société Générale Interco

Société Générale Retail Bank, France's leading nonmutual bank, has more than 8.7 million individual customers. The bank had been using an in-house costing system that was starting to show its limitations. Between 1999 and 2005, Société Générale experienced a number of internal changes and a huge growth in revenue, which meant that the in-house system was no longer adequate to cope with the amount of financial information required.

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Taikang Life

With 31 subsidiaries, over 10 million customers and approximately 10,000 employees across the country, the Taikang Life is the fifth largest life insurance company in China. Facing a highly competitive market environment for insurance business, the company wants to timely grasp the market trends and readjusts its business strategies based on the visibility of the company's operations.

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