The enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is a pillar of nearly every company’s record-keeping and management of business processes. It is essential to the smooth functioning of the accounting and finance functions. In manufacturing and distribution, ERP also can help plan and manage inventory and logistics. Some companies use it to handle human resources functions such as tracking employees, payroll and related costs. Yet despite their ubiquity, ERP systems have evolved little since their introduction a quarter of a century ago. The technologies shaping their design, functions and features had been largely unchanged. As a measure of this stability, our Office of Finance benchmark research found that in 2014 companies on average were keeping their ERP systems one year longer than they had in 2005.
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Business Intelligence,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
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Cloud Computing,
Collaboration,
Controller,
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Data,
ERP,
finance,
Financial Performance Management,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
FP&A,
FPM,
Human Capital,
IBM,
Intacct,
Microsoft,
Mobile Technology,
NetSuite,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Oracle,
Reconciliation,
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SAP,
Social Media,
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
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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 effectiveness of planning and budgeting in corporations, and it remains true that integrating business planning can produce superior results. Companies that maintain direct links between functional or departmental plans more often have a planning process that works well than others. Our next-generation business planning benchmark research shows that two-thirds (66%) of those that maintain such links have a planning process that works well or very well, compared to 40 percent that copy information from individual plans into an overall plan and just 25 percent in which plans have little or no connection.
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Analytics,
Budgeting,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Mobility,
Business Planning,
Cloud Computing,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Demand Planning,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Human Capital,
Integrated Business Planning,
Planning,
Project Planning,
Reporting,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Tidemark,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM),
Customer Experience,
Marketing Planning,
Predictive Analytics
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 relentless consolidation, marginalization and extinction within the IT industry sector driven by cloud disruptions and the maturing of the software business. In practice, though, we expect the transition to the cloud to be slow and uneven.
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Topics:
Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
CFO,
close,
closing,
Cloud Computing,
Collaboration,
Controller,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
dashboard,
Data,
ERP,
finance,
Financial Performance Management,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
FP&A,
FPM,
Human Capital,
IBM,
Intacct,
Microsoft,
Mobile Technology,
NetSuite,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Oracle,
Reporting,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
SAP,
Spreadsheets,
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Tax,
Office of Finance,
Predictive Analytics
