In the current climate there is added pressure on business units in every organisation to show clearly how and where they are creating or adding value to the organisation. Good decision making and performance management are key to business value generation but neither are easy in today’s complex world. Furthermore, the corporate focus on IT costs is often driven by the enterprise-wide mandate to ‘do more with less’ and growing demands for compliance and governance-led transparency. Business Intelligence (BI) and Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solutions help organisations with all these aspects of business. They enable organisations to answer three key business questions: “How are we doing?”, “Why are we doing this?”, and “What should we be doing next?”. In terms of product offerings, these largely equate to: scorecarding, reporting and analysis, and forecasting. Most organisations do of course have systems in place to measure and monitor aspects of business performance, but all too often these systems stop at the Finance department. BI and CPM extend this practice to other areas of the business, and provide operational managers and employees with actionable business intelligence, i.e. information that is both relevant and timely.

KEY FINDINGS

BI deployments are driven by competitive pressures, rapidly changing market conditions, regulatory requirements, and the need for better risk management.
The notion of performance management has become increasingly connected to the BI market of late.
CPM is first and foremost a business initiative which requires an inclusive approach that encourages broad participation and adoption across the enterprise
BI and CPM solutions should offer flexibility to enable a best of breed approach towards deployment.
Ease of use and other end-user considerations are of paramount importance when considering
Performance Management solutions.
Data quality and integration is still a major issue for BI and CPM, as most enterprise applications still have their own, siloed view of corporate data.
The integration of Enterprise Search technology into BI platforms extends the reach and range of existing investments across the enterprise.
Mashups are a natural adjunct to the BI world, as are widgets and gadgets.
Effective collaborative Business Intelligence is the key to achieving and sustaining competitive advantage.
Software as a Service will offer hesitant organisations a relatively low-risk path to Performance Management.

Section 1: Management Summary
1.1 Management Summary

Section 2: Introduction and Business Perspective
2.1 Report Introduction and Objectives
2.2 BI Past and Present
2.3 BI Drivers and Requirements

Section 3: Technology Considerations
3.1 Core CPM Technology
3.2 Related Technologies
3.3 Emerging Trends

Section 4: Implementation Considerations
4.1 Scorecard Methodologies
4.2 Best Practice for Corporate Performance Management
4.3 Implementation Options
4.4 Case Studies

Section 5: Market Perspective
5.1 The Corporate Performance Management Market
5.2 Vendor Analysis

Section 6: Tables and Evaluations
6.1 Butler Group Corporate Performance Management Features Matrix
6.2 The Corporate Performance Management Decision Matrix

Section 7: Technology Audits
Actuate Corporation - Actuate and Actuate Performancesoft Suite
IBM - IBM Cognos 8 BI
Information Builders - WebFOCUS Performance Management Framework v5
Microsoft - Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
Oracle - Oracle EPM System V.11.1.1
SAP - SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management Solutions Release 7.0
SAS - SAS® for Performance Management

Section 8: Vendor Profiles
Adaptive Planning
Alight Planning
BOARD International
Carpio Systems
Clarity Systems
Covalent Software
CorVu
Exact Longview
Exie
Infor
Lawson Software
myDIALS
River Logic
Tagetik
Varicent
Whitebirch Software

Section 9: Glossary