Tidemark Systems offers a suite of business planning applications that enable corporations to plan more effectively. The software facilitates rapid creation and frequent updating of integrated company plans by making it easy for individual business functions to create their own plans while allowing headquarters to connect them to create a unified view. I coined the term “integrated business planning” a decade ago to highlight the potential for technology to substantially improve the...
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Topics:
Planning,
Sales Performance,
Supply Chain Performance,
Customer Experience,
Human Capital,
Marketing Planning,
Reporting,
Budgeting,
Operational Performance,
Analytics,
Business Performance,
Customer & Contact Center,
Financial Performance,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Business Planning,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Demand Planning,
Integrated Business Planning,
Project Planning
Ventana Research defines product information management (PIM) as the practice of using information, applications and other technology to effectively support product-related processes across the customer, commerce and supply chain. As organizations increase the number and diversity of products and services they offer to customers and partners, they increasingly need to address limitations in the ways they manage and distribute product information, including related attributes and content that...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Master Data Management,
Supply Chain Performance,
Governance,
Marketing,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
CIO,
Information Management,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Optimization,
Product Information Management,
Sales Performance Management (SPM)
Whatever Oracle’s cloud strategy had been the past, this year’s OpenWorld conference and trade show made it clear that the company is now all in. In his keynote address, co-CEO Mark Hurd presented predictions for the world of information technology in 2025, when the cloud will be central to companies’ IT environments. While his forecast that two (unnamed) companies will account for 80 percent of the cloud software market 10 years from now is highly improbable, it’s likely that there will be...
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Topics:
Microsoft,
Predictive Analytics,
Sales Performance,
SAP,
Supply Chain Performance,
ERP,
Human Capital,
Mobile Technology,
NetSuite,
Office of Finance,
Reporting,
close,
closing,
Controller,
dashboard,
Tax,
Customer Performance,
Operational Performance,
Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Collaboration,
IBM,
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
CFO,
Data,
finance,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Financial Performance Management,
FPM,
Intacct
Managing prices has always been an activity of keen interest to businesses, but it has become even more critical to do it well. Over the past decade many companies have found their ability to raise prices has been constrained by intense competition resulting from Internet commerce, global competition and other factors. One tool for dealing with this pressure is price and revenue optimization (PRO), an analytic methodology that calculates how demand varies at different price levels and then uses...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Performance Management,
Sales,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
analytical application,
Price Optimization