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ALSO CALLED: Business Performance Metrics and 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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Achieving Sustained Growth through Operational Excellence
sponsored by SAP AG
WHITE PAPER:
Operational excellence is a simple concept with complex implications. Consistently doing things well across every element of the value chain is clear enough in principle. The ultimate goal is a "single source of truth" where senior executives have shared visibility into all parts of the organization, enabling management by facts.
Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009
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How to expand enterprise reporting and capitalize on the benefits of BI
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
PODCAST:
Is your organization making the most of BI and reporting projects? Find out how to improve your enterprise reporting with best practices advice and tips from BI expert Kimberly Nevala of Baseline Consulting.
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 27 Oct 2009
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Overtaken by Events? -- The Quest for Operational Responsiveness
sponsored by Progress Software
ANALYST REPORT:
Never has operational responsiveness, the pursuit of how continually and quickly to deliver maximum value to customers while deriving maximum profitability, been nearer the top of the business agenda. As this paper will demonstrate, harnessing business events, smart interpretation & fast response are definite objectives, and the need is immediate.
Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009
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Next steps for business intelligence
sponsored by IBM
VIDEO:
To find out more about how organizations can take the next steps with their BI initiatives, SearchDataManagement.com turned to Boris Evelson of Forrester Research. In this videocast, Boris will reveal some of the most important emerging trends in BI today and how organizations should start planning to take advantage of next-generation BI.
Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 25 Sep 2009
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IBM Cognos Online Conference for Retailers and Manufactures
sponsored by IBM
VIRTUAL SEMINAR:
This 2-hour complimentary virtual seminar on performance management (PM) takes place on October 21 and continues on November 4th — Join us to learn how PM can help you improve visibility into your manufacturing business so you can reduce costs, speed delivery and efficiency, satisfy customers and create innovative new products.
Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009
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Portfolio Resource Management
sponsored by AtTask
PODCAST:
This podcast will review the steps CIOs can take to select top projects with the most value to the business, map resources and finally fill in the gaps.
Posted: 02 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 02 Sep 2009
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Management Mandate to Reduce Costs Leads to Increased Productivity
sponsored by SEGUS Inc
CASE STUDY:
Learn how an Alabama company seeking a replacement tool for their mainframe administration and automation discovered SEGUS’ Smart products that not only delivered better functionality with a good GUI, but would save the company $80,000 over a five year period, while also avoiding future costly upgrade fees.
Posted: 20 Aug 2009 | Published: 20 Aug 2009
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Enabling the Analytics-Driven Business: How Parallel, Columnar Database Technologies Power Operations Management
sponsored by ParAccel
WHITE PAPER:
As the speed of business intensifies, C-level executives are struggling to implement effective strategies that give their companies a competitive edge. Operational Strategy and Operations Management (OM) are two business fields that work together to help executives set and manage business strategy based on quantitative analysis, not gut feel.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 26 Jun 2009
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How Your Medium-Size Business Can Join the Business Intelligence (BI) Revolution
sponsored by Birst
WEBCAST:
This webcast discusses the latest advances in business intelligence solutions for medium-sized businesses. Watch this webcast to learn how your mid-sized company can make the most out of BI.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 19 Jun 2009
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It's Time to "Go Commando"
sponsored by Birst
WHITE PAPER:
Commando teams carefully plan and execute to reduce risk and achieve success. Read this sales survival guide to learn how to - and why you should - adopt this philosophy and the main factors to focus on that will ensure your sales organization not only survives 2009 but comes out of it successfully.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009
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Building a Best-Run Finance Organization
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER:
This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations.
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2009
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Beyond Boundaries: A New Role for Finance in Driving Business Collaboration
sponsored by SAP America Inc
ANALYST REPORT:
In June 2008, CFO Research Services conducted a research program among senior finance executives in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The research looked at what kinds of alliances companies are forming and how finance sees itself working with internal and external partners to establish and assess successful alliances.
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2009
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Sustained Growth Through Operational Excellence
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER:
Operational excellence is a simple concept with complex implications. Consistently doing things well across every element of the value chain is clear enough in principle. The ultimate goal is a "single source of truth" where senior executives have shared visibility into all parts of the organisation, enabling management by facts.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009
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Best Practices for Event Management
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WEBCAST:
This BMC webcast will present a methodology for identifying the metrics that have the most impact on critical business applications and for creating exception events to notify of critical application problems.
Posted: 24 Apr 2009 | Premiered: 24 Apr 2009
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BMC Enhances its Performance Assurance for Mainframes solution
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WHITE PAPER:
This research brief examines the new release of the BMC Performance Assurance for Mainframes product. We assess its overall significance and describe the reaction of two early users.
Posted: 17 Apr 2009 | Published: 17 Apr 2009
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Measuring The Business Value of IT
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER:
Discover how to efficiently measure projected business value, increase the ROI of your SAP investments, and improve the overall worth of your IT initiative with a consistent methodology for both business and IT users.
Posted: 31 Jan 2008 | Published: 31 Jan 2008
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Intelligent Metrics Ensures Success
sponsored by IFS
WHITE PAPER:
Read how GED Integrated Solutions went through the process of identifying and implementing metrics to drive its business process improvement program in 2002 and has since learned many important lessons in how to track and leverage business metrics to improve operational performance.
Posted: 01 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007
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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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