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  Report The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Performance Management, Q4 2016

  The 10 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  October 6, 2016 | Paul D. Hamerman

  In our 36-criteria evaluation of enterprise performance management (EPM) providers, we identified the 10 most significant ones — Adaptive Insights, Anaplan, Host Analytics, IBM, Oracle, Prophix...

• For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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  Report Use Value Metrics To Improve Your Business Architecture Program

  Performance Management: The Business Architecture Playbook

  June 3, 2016 | Gordon Barnett

  Many firms are unsure of the value of a business architecture (BA) practice. Business architects and business-focused enterprise architecture (EA) professionals themselves find it difficult to...

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  Report Use A Customer-Centric Metrics Framework To Drive BPM Excellence

  Performance Management: The Business Process Management Playbook

  March 8, 2016 | Craig Le Clair

  Business process leaders are finding that improving the performance of a BPM program has changed as we've entered the age of the customer. Whereas it used to be enough to focus on productivity and...

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  Report Drive Business Insight With Effective BI Strategy

  October 21, 2015 | Boris Evelson

  How does an enterprise make sense of operations, logistics, and finances? There's just too much information for any one person to process. So it's business intelligence (BI) to the rescue! But how...

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  Report The EPM Market Landscape Responds To The Growth Agenda And Digital Disruption

  SaaS, Analytics, And Customer Priorities Transform The Enterprise Performance Management Applications Market

  April 30, 2015 | Paul D. Hamerman

  With the market disruption of software-as-a-service (SaaS), advanced analytics, and the customer-centric growth agenda, the vendor landscape for enterprise performance management (EPM) is evolving....

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  Report Can You Give The Business The Data That It Needs?

  November 13, 2013 | Michele Goetz

  Business leaders tell Forrester that they don't want more data; they want trusted data and an easier path to understand what it means. To get there, enterprise architects and application developers...

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  Report The Forrester Wave™: Financial Performance Management, Q3 2013

  How The Top 11 Providers Stack Up In A Rapidly Evolving Market

  September 11, 2013 | Paul D. Hamerman

  In Forrester's 55-criteria evaluation of financial performance management (FPM) vendors, we identified the 11 most significant software providers — Adaptive Planning, Host Analytics, IBM,...

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  Report Planning, Analysis, And Reporting Solutions Drive Financial Performance Management

  Market Landscape: Financial Performance Management

  January 23, 2013 | Paul D. Hamerman

  This report enables application development and delivery professionals and their finance stakeholders to understand the changing vendor landscape for financial performance management (FPM). Complex...

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  Report Align Financial Processes And Systems For Better Business Value And Compliance

  August 18, 2011 | Paul D. Hamerman

  The three key activities of corporate financial management take place on a continuum of the past (reporting and compliance), present (analysis and measurement), and future (planning and...

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  Report Seven Steps For Developing Process-Oriented Portfolios Of Business Technology Services

  How To Better Manage Complexity And Keep It Under Control

  April 22, 2011 | Alexander Peters, Ph.D.

  Most organizations do not effectively align their business process management (BPM) and IT functions to control the increasing complexity that multifaceted, cross-functional processes and...

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  Report Another Year Of Outperformance For The Tech Industry

  Forrester's 2011 Tech Industry Predictions

  January 31, 2011 | Christopher Mines

  In this report, we highlight macro trends and specific predictions that indicate the directions of growth and disruption for the technology industry in 2011.

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  Report The State Of Business Intelligence Software And Emerging Trends: 2010

  BI Vendors Need To Stay On Top Of Technology Innovation And Business Evolution

  May 10, 2010 | Holger Kisker, Ph.D.

  While the whole IT market is facing challenging economic times, the global software market declined by 8% in 2009 compared with the previous year. Business intelligence (BI) software, which can...

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  Report Trends 2010: Financial Processes And Applications

  Economic Prospects Appear Brighter, But More Regulatory Oversight Looms

  December 29, 2009 | Paul D. Hamerman

  Macroeconomic forces and ongoing regulatory changes will have significant impacts on how the office of the CFO carries out its mission-critical responsibilities. Lingering effects of the recession...

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  Report Industry Essential: Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

  December 28, 2009 | George Lawrie

  The consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry generates revenues of more than $2 trillion annually in the US alone, and the value of global brands is truly daunting with Coca-Cola estimated to have a...

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  Report The Forrester Wave™: Business Performance Solutions, Q4 2009

  IBM Cognos, Oracle, SAP, And SAS Lead, With Clarity Systems In Close Pursuit

  November 19, 2009 | Paul D. Hamerman

  In Forrester's 89-criteria evaluation of business performance solutions (BPS) vendors, we found that IBM Cognos, Oracle, SAP, and SAS Institute led the pack because of their breadth of...

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  Report Market Overview: The Business Intelligence Software Market

  Advanced Analytics Will Drive Growth To $14 Billion By 2014

  October 23, 2009 | Holger Kisker, Ph.D.

  Business intelligence (BI) software is the tip of the application software pyramid. Pure functionality, no matter how sophisticated, is no longer sufficient to successfully support the changing...

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  Report Economic Insights For Process And Apps Pros

  Plan For Inevitable Project Reprioritizations

  February 12, 2009 | Elisse Gaynor, Sharyn Leaver

  Given the gloomy economic climate, businesses large and small have difficult decisions ahead on the path to fiscal responsibility and stability. IT shops will be tempted and coerced to cut back in...

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  Report Microsoft Ditches PerformancePoint Product

  Performance Monitoring Is A Bonus For SharePoint; Look Elsewhere For Planning

  January 29, 2009 | Paul D. Hamerman

  In a surprise move, Microsoft announced that it is changing its strategy with respect to the hotly contested business performance solutions (BPS) market. After investing in developing and launching...

• For Business Process Professionals

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  Report Business Performance Solutions: Clash Of The Titans

  The Market Remains Vibrant Following Vendor Consolidation

  January 20, 2009 | Paul D. Hamerman

  Business performance solutions (BPS) — a software category consisting of applications for budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, profitability analysis, and performance measurement...

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  Report Trends 2009: Governance, Risk, And Compliance Hit The Big Time

  The Economic Crisis Of 2008 Makes GRC A Business Priority

  December 23, 2008 | Christopher McClean

  Another bubble burst. The chain reaction stemming from the credit crisis caused an implosion of the global economy. Political, corporate, and economic leaders have argued ferociously about how we...

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  Report Trends 2009: Financial Performance Management

  Macroeconomic Conditions Present Challenges And Opportunities

  November 21, 2008 | Paul D. Hamerman, Scott Tiazkun

  Financial management professionals stand in the spotlight as the economic downturn continues and companies cope with weaker demand, price pressures, rising costs, and credit constraints. Amidst...

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  Report Topic Overview: Business Intelligence

  November 21, 2008 | Boris Evelson

  Business intelligence (BI) is a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information. It allows business users to make...

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  Report The Global Information Management Services Forecast: 2007 To 2012

  Business Intelligence Services Dominate A $7.3 Billion Market

  July 31, 2008 | Tim Sheedy

  Information management solutions are moving to the center of IT strategies as a way of driving IT and business alignment and delivering real and visible value to the business. And wherever there is...

• For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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  Report Forrester's Business Performance Readiness Self-Assessment

  April 2, 2008 | Paul D. Hamerman

  Forrester¿s business performance readiness framework distills findings from our discussions with over a dozen vendor companies and over 70 business process and applications professionals to create...

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  Report Measuring And Aligning Business Performance

  Are You Ready To Take Business Results To The Next Level?

  April 2, 2008 | Paul D. Hamerman

  Today's concerns about a weakening economy might serve as a wake-up call for companies and government organizations to be more focused on monitoring business results and taking appropriate actions...