Performance Management - KnowledgeStorm

Using Supply Chain Performance Management Strategically

SAP America Inc — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Paralleling the explosion in materiel sourcing over the past decade, corporate supply chains have grown strikingly more complex because of a greater amount of outsourcing, increased globalization and a more complex regulatory environment.

Spend Performance Management - Maximize Savings, Reduce Supplier Risks

SAP America Inc — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

The SAP BusinessObjects Spend Performance Management application provides full visibility into direct and indirect spend, and helps companies proactively identify cost savings opportunities and supply risks, reduce costs, maintain supply continuity, and increase spend under management.

Improve Operational Performance by Visualizing and Analyzing Relevant KPI and KPD Metrics: ...

myDIALS Inc. — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper outlines the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPI metrics) together with associated Key Performance Drivers (KPD metrics) within the context of value stream management to support continuous operational performance improvement.

Webcast - Are You Making the Best Decisions for Your Organization? Make Better Decisions by ...

IBM — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Learn how the new IBM Performance management and measurement solution automatically provides real-time information from across the entire development lifecycle for complete visibility into progress.

Presentation Transcript: Achieving Breakthrough Performance in Analytics and Reporting

Sybase, Inc. — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This transcript of the Sybase webcast, "Achieving Breakthrough Performance in Analytics and Reporting" explains why Sybase IQ is the #1 column-based analytics server for business analytics and reporting. Read on to learn how Sybase IQ can relieve the pressure on your transaction systems without creating extra workloads or breaking the bank.

IBM Cognos Online Conference for Retailers and Manufactures

IBM — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

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.

eBook: The New Era of Network Performance Management

SearchNetworking.com — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Today's networks are highly complex, dynamic environments that demand comprehensive performance management. Fortunately, technological advancement is simplifying management and addressing new challenges. This eBook explains why management is more important now than ever and how it can help deliver business-critical applications better and faster.

EMA Impact Brief: CA Spectrum Service Assurance Bridges Service Management Gap

CA — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this brief paper to learn how the new CA integrated service management product offers real hope for beleaguered IT organizations that are trying to bring together the pieces to build an integrated service management story.

Reality Check: The New End-to-end Application Performance Management Imperative Virtual Seminar

Compuware Corporation — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

What Application Performance Management tactics and best practices can you apply to ensure a good end-user experience? What process and strategy can you institute to enable your IT organization to align with the business? What can you do to prepare for the additional complexities that virtualization, cloud and SOA can bring to your environment?

Business Intelligence and Performance Management Assessment Tool

IBM — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This brief 10-minute web-based diagnostic tool will explore your experiences with Business Intelligence (BI) in order to generate a customized report designed to help you identify your top pain points and how to address them and see how your organization stacks-up against leading BI professionals.

Proactive WAN planning: Meeting demands today, future-proofing for tomorrow

Blue Coat — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Join Tim Scannell, editor of SearchEnterpriseWAN.com, and Bojan Simic, expert in application performance management, WAN optimization, network management, and application delivery, as they discuss how to effectively manage and balance WAN performance with security safeguards on local and wide area networks.

The High Performance DBA: Optimizing Databases for High Performance

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

DBA's have always been faced with the difficult task of maintaining a successful database environment, but recently new trends have come along to further challenge them.

The BI Survey 8: The World ' s Largest Independent BI Survey

Board International — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Now in its eighth year of publication, The BI Survey by Nigel Pendse is an annual report based on the world's largest independent survey of Business Intelligence and Performance Management users.

Technology Overview: Board 7

Board International — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Within one single product, BOARD offers all the functionalities needed to build any Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management application without the use of any programming. Its revolutionary toolkit approach provides end-users with an advanced interactive interface.

Enterprise Information Management: A Requirement for Enterprise-Scale Business Intelligence ...

Actuate — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Leaders of business intelligence and performance management (BIPM) initiatives often have a charter that spans the enterprise. Success requires these pervasive initiatives to use enterprise information management. Read this Gartner paper on how to link the two initiatives for a greater chance of project success.

Presentation Transcript: What is End-to-End Application Performance Management?

Compuware Corporation — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

It's a top priority to keep your applications running and end users happy. Discover how application performance management can help you quickly dive into the root causes of problems, before they negatively affect your network and users.

Application Performance Management Best Practices

Compuware Corporation — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Application Performance Management with Forrester Analyst Peter O ' Neill

Compuware Corporation — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Peter O'Neill, principal analyst with Forrester Research, discusses reactive vs. proactive IT and how to break down technology silos for a holistic approach to managing application performance.

Webcast - IT Performance Management: Measure, Monitor and Modify for Operational Excellence

IBM — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

High-performing organizations take a more practice-based and practical, approach to measuring, managing and enhancing IT performance. Adopt new, flexible solutions to support the way that your organization uses IT to drive operational excellence.

Nucleus Research - Focusing IT Efforts During Uncertain Times

Compuware Corporation — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Rebecca Wetteman, Vice President with Nucleus Research, discusses the impact of the current economic climate on IT spending and how IT leaders can justify and articulate the value of infrastructure projects like application performance management.

The Need for Best of Breed. Tips for your ERP & amp; BI Application Strategy

IBM Cognos — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This Webcast can help you put your business intelligence (BI) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) needs into perspective with application strategy tips offered by Ray Wang at Forrester Research.

How the Fastest Growing Companies Use Business Intelligence

Information Builders — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper investigates various levels of business intelligence, discusses the challenges organizations face with today's typical BI deployments, and highlights how many high-growth companies have implemented strategic, analytical, and operational initiatives to work seamlessly together to enhance performance and boost competitive advantage.

Improving Organizational Performance Management Through Pervasive Business Intelligence

SAP BusinessObjects — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Evidence of the competitive value of business intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions is growing. This IDC white paper discusses the growing body of evidence suggesting a direct link between investment in business analytics solutions and organizational performance.

Cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center: Performance and capacity management ...

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this expert podcast, learn how new capacity planning and performance management tools utilize automation and an intuitive interface to increase resource utilization and reduce capital expenditures for your virtualized data center.

Best Practices: Application Performance Management, Network Management

Compuware Corporation — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

A look at application performance management in a network-dependent application delivery model.

Best Practices: Application Performance Management, Datacenter

Compuware Corporation — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

How APM delivers true end-to-end application service for heterogeneous environments, including distributed and mainframe.

Best Practices: Application Performance Management, Overview

Compuware Corporation — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Discusses end-to-end APM as a process focusing on the key areas that impact overall service delivery: design, implementation and operations.

The Financial Close: Optimizing Performance and Driving Financial Excellence

SAP America Inc — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating internal controls

The Profitability Perspective: How Automated Reporting Drives Better Decisions

SAP America Inc — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Driving sustainable growth requires profitability-focused planning and performance management. This special study highlights some key survey findings, which collectively show that profitability reporting is increasing in importance and the use of technology and more sophisticated costing and reporting solutions is high on the agendas of many...

The Renewed Finance Function & #45; Extending Performance Management Beyond Finance

SAP America Inc — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Companies and their stakeholders have always had high expectations for their finance teams. But this research program reveals that, most recently, these pressures- from regulators, from investors, and from competitors&#$5; are pushing companies to look for more from their finance teams in two main, but often conflicting, areas.

Application Performance Management Best Practices

Orange Business Services — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The articles in this E-Guide include "Application performance management: Developing a strategy", "Understanding the network application environment", and "Application performance management: How to prepare for new applications with an impact analysis". If you've got a question about application performance management, the answer is probably here.

BMC Mainview: Controlling Mainframe Operating Costs While Maintaining Service Levels

BMC Software, Inc — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Directors of IT operations are under pressure to control or reduce mainframe operating costs while maintaining service levels to the business. This paper describes how BMC® MAINVIEW® from BMC Software uniquely delivers aggressive and strategic performance management and optimization.

Network Assessment for Visibility and Application Performance Management

Blue Coat — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This data sheet details how an on-site network assessment using Blue Coat PacketShaper can help you identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies on your network quickly and easily.

Integrated Infrastructure and Performance Management for Virtualized Environments

CA — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Enterprises, government agencies and service providers are increasingly employing virtualized environments to decrease costs, consolidate data center space and reduce environmental impacts. This paper describes a comprehensive set of CA tools for managing virtual environments.

Performance Management for a Challenging Economy

IBM — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In a challenging economy, the price paid for bad decisions can be dire. Even average decisions can cost your organization dearly. See how information sweet spots and performance management can help you not only weather the storm, but be better prepared to steer your way with greater agility into the upturn.

Achieving Compliant Manufacturing Excellence through Real & #45;time Performance Management ...

SAP America Inc — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Manufacturers are feeling new pressure on their operations from many directions. Dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, rapid product innovation, lean manufacturing, and the transition to new IT technology all manifest themselves on the plant floor and throughout the enterprise.

Financial Performance Management: Optimize Financial Performance for a Competitive Edge

SAP America Inc — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Applications for financial performance management, part of SAP® solutions for enterprise performance management, cover the full life cycle of financial management and put you in control of performance.

Becoming Proactive In Application Performance Management

Compuware Corporation — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Poor application performance results in significant financial losses for most companies. Find out why, and more importantly how to avoid these losses by moving toward proactive application performance management, in this research from Forrester Consulting commissioned by Compuware.

Driving Revenue and Increasing Value with Application Performance Management

Blue Coat — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

As a leading provider of solutions for Service Providers, Blue Coat appliances give you the visibility, acceleration and security needed for optimizing your network. Read this e-book to learn how Blue Coat gives you the control you need to deliver a whole set of new managed services for your business and consumer customers.

Zen and the Art of the Balanced Scorecard

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Today the use of balanced scorecards for performance management has become a hallmark of a well-run company. This paper will provide guiding principles to help your company's overall performance.

Sustainability Matters: Why - and how - business is widening its focus to consider the ...

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

This white paper demonstrates how running a responsible business and high levels of performance do not have to work against each other. And it makes a case for why sustainability issues should simply be part of a company’s overall performance management practices.

Performance Management Applications Overview

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Hyperion performance management applications deliver a wide range of Business benefits as well as IT benefits; this overview outlines key benefits.

Management Excellence: Leveraging Technology and Techniques

Oracle Corporation — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EDT

One in a series of white papers about management excellence, this white paper describes the techniques and technologies that organizations should master on their way to management excellence.

Spend Analytics: A Foundation for Procurement Performance Management

SAP America Inc — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Read this white paper from SAP for an interview with Kathleen Wilhide, research director of IDC’s Compliance and Business Performance Management Solutions program.

Journal of Management Excellence - Introducing Management Excellence

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

A recent global study from Cranfield School of Management found organizations are too internally focused and did not use sufficient external information or benchmarking. A better understanding of management processes is needed. That is why we introduced our view on the management process: strategy-to-success. Read this whitepaper to learn more.

The Performance Manager: Turning Information Into Higher Business Performance

IBM — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

Download this white paper for an extensive summary of The Performance Manager, Proven Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance, a book that examines the partnership between decision-makers and the people who provide them with information to drive better decisions.

Enterprise Performance Management & #45; Financial Excellence and Beyond

SAP America Inc — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

Read why top CFOs are shifting from their traditional financial role dealing with standardized business processes and systems to that of change agent and strategic advisor to the CEO.

The Alignment & #45;Focused Organization: Bridging the Gap between Strategy and Execution

SAP America Inc — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Take a look at how organizations are taking strides to align business strategy with actual initiatives, projects, and daily activities - in short, to close the gap between strategy and execution.

Essential Steps for Troubleshooting .NET Application Problems

AVIcode, Inc. — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper explores how to troubleshoot common application errors, including crashes and functionality failures, for greater application performance and an optimized end-user experience.

WebFOCUS Operational Enterprise Business Intelligence

Information Builders Inc. — Tue, 25 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT

WebFOCUS is a comprehensive and fully integrated enterprise business intelligence platform. It sets the standard for enterprise business intelligence by scaling to support every level of the global organization – executive, analytical, & operational – and make data available, accessible, and meaningful to every person or application that needs it.