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:

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.

Groupe Casino, a leading supermarket chain in France, was using a complex system based on data collected from various Excel spreadsheets for costing and cross-charging - which made controlling the company's activities and communicating across the organization difficult.

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.

As a tertiary medical facility and the only trauma center serving western and central Kentucky, University of Louisville Hospital offers a broad range of specialties—everything from stroke management and high-risk obstetrics to neurosurgery, cancer care, and advanced diagnostic imaging. As a result, the hospital has numerous departments, each with its own budget.

Integrated solutions from Business Objects compose a unified system offering with great update flexibility, reliable data, and a transparent strategic planning process.
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