Organizations succeed through continuous planning to achieve high levels of performance. For most organizations planning is not an easy process to conduct. Planning software is typically designed for only a few people in the process, such as analysts, or organizations might use spreadsheets, which are not designed for business planning across an organization. Most technologies only allow you to examine the past and not plan for the future. For decades organizations have tried to focus planning...
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Big Data,
Mobile Technology,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Operations,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Cloudera,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Business Planning,
CFO,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
finance,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Tidemark,
Workday,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
Cloud computing has given business a new way to improve the effectiveness of business processes and ultimately the outcomes of their efforts. In the last five years, business across marketing, customer service, sales, human resources, finance and other areas have embraced the practice of renting access to the applications and technology they need when they need them. Organizations’ use of operational expense budgets helps them get what they need and avoid IT politics or standards that impeded...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Social Media,
Mobile Technology,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
CIO,
Cloud Computing,
Business Applications,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Management (IM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
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Topics:
Big Data,
Kapplets,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
Information Optimization,
Kapow,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM)
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Big Data,
Social Media,
Mobile Technology,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Vitria,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Complex Event Processing,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Location Intelligence,
Operational Intelligence,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM)
I recently attended the annual SAS analyst summit to hear the latest company, product and customer growth news from the multi-billion-dollar analytics software provider. This global giant continues to grow its business and solutions to help with fraud prevention, marketing and risk. It lets users apply its analytic and statistical technology in practical applications for business. SAS can meet midsized businesses’ demand with packaging and pricing to ensure it is not seen as only affordable to...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Predictive Analytics,
SAS,
Fraud,
GRC,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
CIO,
Cloud Computing,
Data Integration,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Information Management,
Operational Intelligence,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
Risk,
Sales Performance Management (SPM)
SnapLogic, a provider of data integration in the cloud, this week announced Big Data-as-a-Service to address businesses’ needs to integrate and process data across Hadoop big data environments. As our research agenda for 2013 outlines, dealing with data in the cloud is very important to organizations. At the same time, businesses need to be able to integrate their big data with all their technology assets, as I pointed out recently.
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Topics:
Big Data,
R,
Salesforce.com,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
SnapLogic,
Business Analytics,
Cloud Computing,
Cloudera,
Data Integration,
Information Management,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM)
LucidWorks addresses the growing volume of information now being stored in the enterprise and in big data with two products aimed at the enterprise with search technology. Though you may not be familiar with LucidWorks (previously known as Lucid Imagination), the company has for many years contributed to Apache Lucene, an open source search project, and commercialized and supported for it for business.
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Topics:
Big Data,
MapR,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Business Mobility,
Cloud Computing,
Cloudera,
Hortonworks,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Information Management (IM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Search,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM),
Strata+Hadoop
Business intelligence software is supposed to help businesses access and analyze data and communicate analytics and metrics. I have witnessed improvements to BI software over the years, from mobile and collaboration to interactive discovery and visualization, and our Value Index for Business Intelligence finds a mature set of technology vendors and products. But even as these products mature in capabilities, the majority lack features that would make them easy to use. Our recent research on ...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Mobile Technology,
Natural Language,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Business Mobility,
Cloud Computing,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Location Intelligence,
Operational Intelligence,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Discovery,
Information Management (IM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
Business analytics have become mainstream in most organizations. Our latest research in technology innovation found analytics was the top-ranked technology in 39 percent of organizations. To deepen the sophistication of their analytics, businesses can add geographic context and maps to business intelligence applications to create what we call location intelligence. Applications and tools with a geographic and spatial context can help deliver new and deeper insights to business. Information...
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Topics:
Social Media,
Geographic Information Systems,
GIS,
Location Analytics,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Spatial Data Quality,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Information Management,
Location Intelligence,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM)
Managing data efficiently across the enterprise continues to be a large challenge for both business units and IT. Organizations need data supplied in a consistent format and timely manner to help manage their activities and processes, but some do not look beyond conventional approaches to improvement. Today’s large volumes of data make it more difficult to understand the relationships among data and the role of location-related data. Our 2012 benchmark research on information management found...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Master Data Management,
Social Media,
MDM,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Data Governance,
Information Management,
Location Intelligence,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
DG,
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM)