The purpose of a performance management system is to anticipate the future and adapt to the needs of individual users. Two mistakes are common in setting up performance management systems: choosing the wrong software to do the job and not having enough of the right information. One source of both problems is confusion about the roles that enterprise resource planning (ERP), business intelligence (BI) and other enterprise software play in enabling companies to plan and set objectives and then to measure and assess results.

Read this Ventana Research white paper to explore how to prepare thoroughly and implement systems carefully and identify all sources of important information and make sure that your users can access them easily in consistent formats. Learn how your performance management initiative can deliver improvement across the business and help you stay in front of the competition.