Business Objects meets the needs of finance professionals – from the CFO to the staff accountant - with focused solutions that address critical issues they face, including:
- Aligning plans and budgets with actual results and analyzing business trends
- Monitoring key financial metrics and ratios with a focus on DSO, liquidity, cash flow, receivables and payables, and profitability
- Minimizing administrative burden of manual processes involved with spreadsheets
- Aligning financial performance with incentive compensation to your employees
- Managing complex compliance environments and targeting potential material events
“Business Objects software helped us formulate and implement a financial plan which lowered the cost of debt we had to issue – saving us nearly $30 million over the next 10 years.”
H. Walter Young
Senior VP and manager of corporate finance, Zions Bank
Solutions for Finance
- Strategic Budgeting and Planning
- Financial Reporting and Consolidations
- Scorecarding
- Incentive Compensation Management
- Activity-Based Costing and Profitability Analysis
- Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
Free White Paper
Linking Strategic Plans to Operational Goals: A Practical Guide for CFOs – PDF 464KB
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.
Strategic Budgeting and Planning
Produce detailed and accurate enterprise budgets. Easily analyze scenarios, prepare final budgets, and share information with managers for increased accountability. Ideal for general budgeting, payroll planning, and sales planning.
Financial Reporting and Consolidations
Track and report on planning activity. Consolidate data, compare actual results to budget, and analyze variance, then share information with the people who need it. Ideal for managing financial consolidations and employee productivity.
Strategy Management
Easily monitor business activity. Calculate key performance indicators (KPIs) and create snapshots of performance, then share this information with executives in real time. Ideal for taking corrective action before minor problems turn into major ones.
Incentive Compensation Management
Align compensation with corporate strategy. Integrate data from disparate sources and support complex incentive compensation plans with multiple variables.
Activity-Based Costing and Profitability Analysis
Discover key cost drivers throughout your business. Adapt easily to unexpected changes to your business conditions. Deliver cost analytics across all your product and service lines.
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
Integrate data from existing source systems and automate the consolidation, reporting, audit, and compliance functions in a controlled environment.
Enterprise Performance Management
Enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions enable you to align people, processes and technologies around common plans to execute and optimize business strategy.
Performance Management
- How can it help you?
Learn more about EPM solutions by role, by industry, or by product and service.