On Friday IBM announced its new Finance Transformation Workbench tool to help CFOs identify underperforming finance functions within their company and identify new opportunities to transform and improve the finance function. According to the 2008 IBM Global CFO...
[This is just one of my series of posts from the NACHA Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas.] How To Turn Your Online Bill Pay Expense into a Revenue Stream [NACHA Payments] Peter Gordon Partner, eCom Advisors Synopsis from Conference Program For a decade,...
[I am in Las Vegas for the TAWPI Payments in Transition conference – these are my notes from one of the sessions. An index of all of the sessions and links to the rest of my notes is here. - EMc] Keynote: Unlocking the Value of Your Customer DataMalcolm Netburn,...
Last week I posted about how CFOs need to be more strategic and lead change, now I am following up with this tidbit from Frank Buytendijk's business intelligence blog on CIOs as change agents: It is the current best practice to define the role of the CIO as a...
Information for everyone! The latest Treasury & Risk explores how mid-level managers are enjoying the drill down capabilities and real time metrics reporting of business intelligence dashboards. A case study featuring Dow Corning demonstrates how dashboards...
Consolidation of the business intelligence industry continues as IBM makes a $4.9 offer for Cognos, a 9.5% premium over Friday's closing price. IBM has had a long standing partnership with Cognos. This is the third major acquisition this year: one month ago...
SAP is buying Business Objects for 4.8 billion euros ($6.8 billion) in a departure from its organic growth strategy. Up until now, SAP's largest acquisition was OutlookSoft earlier this year. Listen to the press conference tomorrow or listen to the replay....
Check out this exchange of posts between Frank Buytendijk (Oracle/Hyperion) and Tom Hudock (Online Business Systems) about the role of business in IT initiatives (they are particularly concerned with business intelligence but the sentiment holds true for all...
The ERP + Performance Management challenge heats up as SAP acquires OutlookSoft in order to compete with Oracle (and it's recent acquisition, Hyperion) Read more:SAP/OutlookSoft press releaseArticle at...
If you are contemplating a Business Intelligence initiative (or in the midst of one) I strongly encourage you to read this post by Timo Elliott at the BI Questions Blog. He lists five fatal assumptions about BI and offers insight on how to avoid failure:1. BI...
