Business Performance Management Software

WHITE PAPER: Organizations running mature SAP or Oracle applications experience significant ongoing savings from third-party support.  Nucleus found Rimini Street customers can reduce their annual license maintenance fees by at least 50 percent and avoid upgrade costs while extending the value of their software investment.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 27 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Companies that use IBM Cognos software are able to improve productivity, reduce or avoid headcount, reduce financing costs, and increase profitability.  These benefits are achieved because when employees can rapidly access and analyze data in consistent ways, they are better able to make business changes that both lower costs and increase revenues.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Siemens product lifecycle management (PLM) software for the consumer packaged goods and food and beverage industries enables companies to optimize package design and accelerate innovation while reducing costs.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 23 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Kronos Workforce Central enables companies to reduce payroll error, reduce human resources management time and cost, and increase employee productivity by providing a centralized system for managing all the facets of the employee lifecycle.The solution can also increase visibility into labor issues and costs for improved decision making.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 25 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Just as the U.S. space program could not have put a man on the moon using conventional aviation technology, IT leaders and business executives cannot use yesterday’s approaches to realize tomorrow’s objectives.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 25 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Companies should consider investments in time and attendance applications as a low-risk, low-cost way to reduce payroll costs and improve productivity.  Companies that already have time and attendance applications should consider maximizing the breadth of their deployment or extending it to other workforce-related functions.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 28 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Independent software vendors (ISVs) that embed DataDirect drivers can leverage DataDirect’s expertise to improve data connectivity.  Using DataDirect helps them reduce cost and risk so they can focus on innovation and competitive advantage.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 02 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: SAP users preparing to invest in functionality such as business intelligence (BI) or performance management (PM) should consider an IBM Cognos application.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 07 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Microsoft partners that follow a structured methodology to sell, deliver, and optimize Microsoft Dynamics solutions can reduce their own cost and risk, focus on core competencies, and ultimately increase profits and customer satisfaction.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 09 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Life Sciences is one of the fastest moving and most dynamic global industry sectors.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: By deploying advanced scheduling tools, healthcare institutions can reduce labor costs and improve the productivity of schedulers, staffers, and caregivers.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 11 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Most companies have pay rule environments with some complexity, such as multiple states and shift differentials or collective bargaining agreements.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 14 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Managing privileged accounts requires balancing accessibility and control while ensuring audit capabilities.  Cyber-Ark enables organizations to increase administrator productivity while reducing risk.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Siemens product lifecycle management (PLM) Software for life sciences can help medical device manufacturers manage compliance requirements while supporting greater collaboration, ultimately reducing costs while improving patient outcomes.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 03 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: IBM Cognos software helps K-12 organizations increase visibility and improve decision making, driving improved student performance, lowered cost of interventions, greater productivity, and lower operating costs.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 05 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores how business process management (BPM) can be used to streamline corporate payment operations for increased customer satisfaction and significantly reduced operational costs.

Posted: 12 Aug 2011 | Published: 12 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This video white paper explains how continued use of the Oracle GRC applications suite embeds deep-seated controls within EBS Release 12.1 so business processes are kept intact and optimized long after the upgrade project is complete. 

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines how organizations are turning to Microsoft SharePoint to connect their knowledge workers, business processes, and enterprise-wide content. New features in SharePoint Server 2010 are aimed at improving the platform’s scalability and usability, inherently driving the SharePoint deployment to evolve and grow as business dictates.

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 | Published: 21 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: The current utilities environment requires companies to decrease costs while increasing the ability to control utility assets. One key challenge is how to take advantage of new technologies to better manage the delivery of service to customers today and into the future. IBM Service Management for the IUN provides a blueprint for getting started.

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 | Published: 06 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: The challenges faced by today’s government agencies and commercial operations are many and varied—and to stay afloat, these organizations must not only promote change from within, but they must also be agile enough to quickly adapt to evolving markets, policies, regulations, and business models.

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 | Published: 27 Aug 2008

WHITE PAPER: In 2007 Oracle worked with Cranfield School of Management and four other Universities around the world on a global study of enterprise performance management. The study gathered data from 633 companies in Australia, China, Japan, UK and the USA. Read this white paper to find out the results.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Review Center is a module within Contour that provides a fast and agile way to collaborate on requirements. It enables teams to discuss, review and approve requirements with stakeholders and customers in real-time. It can also cut requirements approval cycles from weeks to days. This playbook provides a step-by-step guide on how to use it.

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 | Published: 21 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This Executive Insights paper describes how the combination of EPM and GRC solutions is now more critical than ever for business success. This document also discusses how EPM and GRC must be linked to business intelligence tools and supported by comprehensive services to ensure that the data generated is used appropriately.

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 | Published: 20 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: According to industry leaders and pundits in 2006, the role of the CIO was at a crossroads. Read the white paper to see how CIOs are beginning to seize this opportunity to play increasingly impactful strategic roles within their enterprise, and how IBM research can provide CIOs with the skills necessary to become a Business-Savvy CIO.

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 | Published: 19 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Using common performance management tools and systems efficiently is just as critical to the success of the business as using a common set of applications for accounting and human resources (ERP) and marketing and sales (CRM). Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 | Published: 20 Apr 2009