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: June 8, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Communications | Business Intelligence | Business IT Alignment | Business Management | Business Metrics | Business Models | Business Performance Management | Business Process Modeling | Business Processes | Business Systems | CEOs | CFOs | CIOs | Communications Networks | Financial Management | Financial Reporting

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: June 5, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Metrics | Business Process Management | Enterprise Resource Management | Financial Reporting | Financial Systems | Financing | Marketing | Operational Metrics (Systems) | Sales Information Systems

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: April 24, 2009 | Premiered: April 23, 2009


Topics:  Application Monitoring | Applications Management | Business Metrics | IT Best Practices | Mainframe Operating Systems | Metrics | Query Tools | Reporting Software

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: April 17, 2009 | Published: April 17, 2009


Topics:  Business Metrics | Business Performance Management | Capacity Planning | IT Governance | Mainframe Server Hardware | Performance Testing | z/OS

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: January 31, 2008 | Published: September 25, 2006


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business IT Alignment | Business Management | Business Metrics | Investments | IT Governance | IT Management | IT Portfolio Management | ROI | SAP (Product)

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: August 1, 2007 | Published: July 1, 2007


Topics:  Benchmark Testing | Business Activity Monitoring | Business Metrics | Business Process Automation Software | Business Process Management | Data Collection | ERP | Performance Testing