The Challenge of Strategic AlignmentThe role of Scorecards & Dashboards in Strategy Execution
Ultimately, for executing strategy, dashboards and scorecards are complementary tools. Dashboards typically help you to understand and manage tactical operations while scorecards help you to understand and manage strategy. Great companies do not just happen by accident. Research shows that those which are able to ride the challenge of strategic alignment create long term greatness not just temporary success.
Enterprise Performance ManagementUnlocking Business Potential
Finance executives, and the organizations they support, face a number of challenges to achieving their goals and objectives in today's market. This includes economic uncertainty and volatility, increasing stakeholder expectations, inefficient business processes and IT complexity. What's needed to overcome these barriers is an integrated enterprise performance management platform that supports the needs of Finance as well as IT and helps unlock business potential to deliver profitable results.
The Challenges of Corporate Financial Reporting
Many finance professionals face serious challenges in managing and reporting their company's financial data, despite recent investments in financial reporting systems. Oracle and Accenture launched this research report to help finance professionals better understand the state of corporate financial reporting today, and why recent investments may have fallen short.
Choosing the Right Financial Consolidation Solution for Your Organization
Oracle gives you a choice of financial consolidation solutions. Oracle's ERP solutions provide transactional-based consolidation functionality, while the Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Suite is a purpose-built, independent solution that is focused on addressing more demanding financial consolidation, closing, reporting and regulatory filing requirements. This document will help you determine which application is best suited to meet your needs.
Why is Tax Data Such a Problem?The Case for Oracle Hyperion Tax Provision
Finance stands to gain a lot by arming their counterparts in tax with the same great capability and tools already in use in the finance department. Since the tax close is an integral part of the finance close, the benefits realized in the tax provision process will directly improve the financial close. Furthermore, by working within an integrated finance and tax reporting platform both the finance and tax departments will be speaking the 'same language'. There will be less room for misunderstandings or inconsistencies involving data, metadata, and process.
Predictive AnalyticsBringing The Tools To The Data
Analytics are the methods of decomposing concepts or substances into smaller pieces, and to understand their workings. How can you analyze the future? There is no concept or substance to break down yet. This paper discusses what predictive analytics can and cannot do, the various categories of predictive analytics, and how to best apply them.
Oracle Crystal Ball for Workforce Planning and Analytics
Crystal Ball is a powerful but user-friendly solution ideally suited and field-proven for workforce planning and analytics. With the ability to utilize information from the top human capital management tools, it enables managers to understand historical data, simulate future business environments, and make staffing decisions that account for a wide range of possible business environments.
Packaged Analytic ApplicationsAccelerating Time and Value
To succeed in an increasingly demanding environment, BI managers should consider implementing packaged analytic applications. These are prebuilt BI applications aligned with functional and vertical business domains that are built on a pre-integrated, scalable data warehousing infrastructure. They are geared to organizations that want to accelerate the time it takes to deploy BI solutions and deliver an analytical complement to their packaged operational applications.
Examining the Value of Oracle Exalytics
This report examines how customers running Business Intelligence and Performance Management solutions on Oracle Exalytics were able to take advantage of optimized hardware, analytics software, and in-memory database technology consolidated in a single machine to accelerate time to value and increase analytics performance at a fraction of the cost of traditional approaches.
The Business Intelligence Competency CenterEnabling Continuous Improvement in Performance Management
Business Intelligence delivers greater insight into performance and enables organizations to become more efficient, agile and competitive. The Business Intelligence Competency Center is an entity that leverages the BI investment and provides for continuous improvement in performance management. People, Processes and Governance are three pillars of the BICC concept that are critical to its success. Steps that lead to an effective program are defining a compelling vision, realistically assessing the organization's readiness, identifying the right Executive Sponsor and managing internal change. Establishing a BICC is a complex undertaking but with careful planning and a dedicated team, it can provide long lasting impact for the business.
Business-Driven BIUsing new Technologies to Foster Self-Service Access to Insights
Implementing self-service Business Intelligence is more complex than it looks. It's not a one-size-fits-all program. BI users come in many different shapes and sizes, each with unique information requirements. This report out several frameworks that explain how users interact with information and then maps elements of each to BI functionality and categories of BI tools. This mapping is critical to success with self-service BI.
