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ALSO CALLED:
Business Performance Metrics,
Sales Metrics
DEFINITION: A business metric is any type of measurement used to gauge some quantifiable component of a company's performance, such as return on investment (ROI), employee and customer churn rates, revenues, EBITDA, and so on. Business metrics are part of the broad area of business intelligence, which comprises a wide variety of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access
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Business Metrics Reports
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Verdantix Energy & Sustainability Leadership Series
sponsored by CA Technologies.
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Discover 6 energy and sustainability trends impacting the business world, why they are important for CIOs and IT executives to consider, and simple steps CIOs can take to implement these practices in their enterprise.
Posted: 22 May 2012 | Published: 22 May 2012
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Risk Management: Safeguarding Against a World of Threats
sponsored by HP Enterprise Security
EBOOK:
Access this expert e-book to discover all the different components that make up a comprehensive risk management policy. Uncover the importance of accurate risk management metrics, why governance, risk, and compliance are a unified framework, 4 components your risk management strategy may be missing, and more.
Posted: 17 May 2012 | Published: 17 May 2012
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How Companies Leverage BizX Software to Drive Excess Shareholder Return
sponsored by SuccessFactors
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This paper highlights the results of a study commissioned to derive what business execution practices are actually driving shareholder value. Read this now and learn why companies that aligned its goals, rated users on the achievement of them and leveraged business execution software to increase their execution achieved elevated stock returns.
Posted: 27 Apr 2012 | Published: 27 Apr 2012
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Wayne Eckerson Discusses Utilizing Geospatial BI to Reach Business Goals
sponsored by Esri
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Watch this video session with BI expert Wayne Eckerson to learn the best practices aligning BI with your organization's business activities.
Posted: 07 Oct 2011 | Premiered: 07 Oct 2011
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Cost-effective strategies for delivering BI to SMBs
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
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BI is no longer just for large enterprises with bigger budgets. In this video, learn how the BI market has evolved to offer more affordable options to SMBs.
Posted: 06 Sep 2011 | Premiered: 06 Sep 2011
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The Power of Real-time Continuous Intelligence™ with ESP
sponsored by Sybase, an SAP company
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This white paper discusses the inherent challenges of dealing with "big data": overwhelming information that seems to come from everywhere and everything. Continue reading to discover strategies for overcoming these challenges by processing "big data" and providing impressive, real-time decision making.
Posted: 12 Jul 2011 | Published: 12 Jul 2011
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Better Business Outcomes with Business Analytics
sponsored by IBM
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Business analytics is the means by which organizations optimize business outcomes. Using insights that can be accessed, shared and acted on by employees at every level, organizations can increase profits, reduce costs, manage risk and make more accurate predictions to prepare for future outcomes.
Posted: 12 May 2011 | Published: 12 May 2011
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Enterprise Analysis: An Introduction to Evaluating Your Organization
sponsored by Global Knowledge
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Enterprise analysis by a Business Analyst (BA) is a method used to identify and define why an organizational change is needed. Read this whitepaper to learn the importance of this process to an organization.
Posted: 26 Aug 2010 | Published: 26 Aug 2010
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BUSINESS METRICS DEFINITION (continued): … A business metric is any type of measurement used to gauge some quantifiable component of a company's performance, such as return on investment (ROI), employee and customer churn rates, revenues, EBITDA, and so on. Business metrics are part of the broad area of business intelligence, which comprises a wide variety of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions. Systematic approaches, such as the balanced scorecard methodology, can be employed to transform an organization's mission statement and business strategy into specific and quantifiable goals, and to monitor the organization's performance in terms of achieving those goals. |
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