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Strategic Considerations for Evaluating Enterprise Performance Management Solutions

by IBM (March 2, 2010)

If you’re evaluating, or embarking on a project to select an enterprise-wide performance management (EPM) solution, download this paper to gain critical insight and key recommendations for finding the right solution for your company.

What is EPM? It’s a set of solutions that monitor performance and deliver metrics, plans, predictive analytics and flexible reporting capabilities to support better business decisions. These solutions are distinctly different than transactional applications that support day to day operational requirements. It’s a comprehensive platform of solutions and technologies that integrate organizational data from multiple sources and provide business users with support for decision making to improve business performance.

Finding the right solution can be somewhat confusing and the potential penalties for selecting the wrong one - rework, replacement, lack of business agility and IT credibility - are steep.

Companies must go the extra step to perform due diligence in evaluating respective vendor capabilities to support both near and long term direction of a strategic solution for the organization. In this paper, Kathleen Wilhide, founder of Better-Insight LLC, and a leading industry analyst in the EPM market, outlines essential considerations for identifying software that can help your organization find the best path to continual performance improvement.

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