My colleague Mark Smith and I recently chatted with executives of Tidemark, a company in the early stages of providing business analytics for decision-makers. It has a roster of experienced executive talent and solid financial backing. There’s a strategic link with Workday that reflects a common background at the operational and investor levels. As it gets rolling, Tidemark is targeting large and very companies as customers for its cloud-based system for analyzing data. It can automate alerts...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Data Warehousing,
Master Data Management,
Performance Management,
Planning,
Predictive Analytics,
GRC,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Budgeting,
Risk Analytics,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Business Mobility,
Cloud Computing,
Data Governance,
Data Integration,
In-Memory Computing,
Information Management,
Mobility,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Risk,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Workday,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM),
Financial Performance Management,
Integrated Business Planning,
Strata+Hadoop
At its annual Influencer’s Summit in Boston, SAP offered multiple perspectives on where the company’s strategy and products are heading. Overall, I was struck by the essential similarities to its message on its strategic direction a decade ago. The overarching objective in its roadmap now, as then, is to have information technology increasingly adapt to the needs of individual users and how they choose to execute established/repetitive or ad-hoc processes, rather than forcing them to adapt to...
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Topics:
Performance Management,
Planning,
Predictive Analytics,
SAP,
ERP,
GRC,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Mobility,
Cloud Computing,
Enterprise Software,
In-memory,
Mobility,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
finance,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Risk,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Workforce Performance Management (WPM),
Financial Performance Management
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)
Vishal Sikka raised an important point about the software business during his remarks at the SAP Global Influencer Summit that my colleague just assessed (See: “SAP Elevates Technology Strategy for Enterprise Software and Solutions“). He contrasted the business strategy of consolidation that other companies are pursuing with his view of SAP’s strategy of innovation. In one sense, this assertion is an attempt to disparage Oracle’s and to some extent IBM’s approach to constructing an IT business...
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Topics:
SAP,
Analytics,
CIO,
Cloud Computing,
Collaboration,
Enterprise Software,
Mobility,
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