Back-office operations in commercial and investment banks are among those critical functions that are underappreciated until they stop working well. This includes transaction reconciliations and the related exceptions management. Reconciliations are necessary to achieve a reasonable assurance of complete and accurate record of trading activity. The process is especially challenging now, partly because of today’s high and growing volumes in the wide range of asset classes in which all larger...
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Topics:
GRC,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Financial Governance,
Reconciliation,
Sungard,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
CFO,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Management (IM),
Corporate Governance,
Governance Risk and Compliance
One of the many interesting findings that came out of Ventana Research’s comprehensive benchmark research on business analytics was partly buried in an analysis of maturity groups. The Maturity Index of our research benchmarks classifies organizations at four maturity levels (from bottom to top, Tactical, Advanced, Strategic and Innovative) in each of four categories: People, Process, Information and Technology. We’ve conducted more than 100 benchmarks during the past seven years, covering...
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Topics:
Social Media,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Business Mobility,
Business Technology,
CIO,
Cloud Computing,
Collaboration,
Enterprise Software,
Information Technology,
Mobility,
Operational Intelligence,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Management (IM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
When the term “governance, risk and compliance” (GRC) was introduced almost 10 years ago, software for this purpose was not a real category but a loose grouping of disparate applications that had something to do with meeting the requirements of the recently passed Sarbanes-Oxley Act. (You can find my perspective on the GRC category from a couple of years ago here. Now, with the release 10.0 of SAP BusinessObjects GRC, SAP is taking another step toward making the software category a real,...
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Topics:
SAP,
GRC,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
CFO,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Management (IM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Corporate Governance,
Governance Risk and Compliance
The hospitality industry has a complex structure. It is highly fragmented, with many small operations but also a significant number of global companies. Moreover, a property can be managed by one company (the brand name over the door) yet owned by another, which might be a one-off local real-estate partnership or a larger-scale owner of multiple sites. The consumer side of hospitality has its own challenges as well, resulting from the dramatic shifts brought about by the Internet in how people...
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Topics:
Performance Management,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Hospitality,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
CIO,
Enterprise Software,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Infor,
Information Management (IM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM)
Wall Street has many leading indicators to work with, some serious – such as housing starts and the purchasing managers’ index – and some done a bit tongue-in-cheek. One of the latter is the Super Bowl Indicator, which says that if a team from the original National Football League wins the game, the market will be up for the year, but if an old American Football League team wins it, the market will be down. The amazing thing is that so far this heuristic has an accuracy rate better than 75%! On...
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Topics:
Salesforce.com,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Enterprise Software,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Management (IM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM)
Actuate held its annual customer day in San Francisco amid the happy chaos of the World Series champion Giants’ ticker-tape celebration, and on that day the company’s ticker symbol changed from ACTU to BIRT (a shift, incidentally, botched by NASDAQ). There was a great deal of focus on its ActuateOne platform (which my colleague reviewed here) and the advancements in using open source software like BIRT with now over ten million downloads, but the aspect I want to highlight is the BIRT...
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Topics:
Microsoft,
Open Source Software,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
CIO,
Information Management (IM),
Microsoft Excel,
Spreadsheets
As part of its recent IBM Business Analytics Industry Analyst Summit, I participated in a demonstration of IBM Business Analytics Workshop, a simulation that the company uses to demonstrate the capabilities of its performance management software. Rather than offering a canned demo or a Microsoft PowerPoint deck, the workshop gives a team of individuals from a company a reasonably realistic interactive experience of using the software for a purpose. The group starts with a set of financial goals...
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Topics:
Performance Management,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Management (IM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
For the past couple of decades Xenos' distinctive competence has been the transformation of print streams into content used to assemble documents. Its focus these days is in addressing the needs of organizations that have to handle high volume transactional output (HVTO) and all forms of enterprise content. The company, which was acquired by Actuate earlier this year, recently released their Enterprise Server Version 2.0.
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Topics:
Business Intelligence,
Information Management,
Content Management,
Information Management (IM)
Looking forward to Oracle OpenWorld, I was recalling that about 20 years ago, when I started covering the software industry as a Wall St. analyst, I paid a visit to the company. There were many fewer database-shaped glass buildings there in Redwood Shores then but the lack of corporate focus on business applications and users remains unchanged.
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Topics:
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Intelligence,
Enterprise Software,
Information Technology,
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Management (IM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
Oracle has just released its latest (11g) version of its enterprise content management (ECM) suite. Oracle entered the ECM business mainly through the acquisition of Stellent more than three years ago. Historically, document/content management has achieved greatest penetration in paperwork heavy or highly regulated businesses such as financial services, pharmaceuticals and government as well as in specific functions such as handling web content, especially in high-volume applications. However,...
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Topics:
Enterprise Content Management,
Information Management,
Oracle,
Information Management (IM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM)