In today's increasingly global and competitive business environment, you must plan faster and do more – often with less budget and fewer resources. At the same time, you must be incredibly efficient and precise with every decision, while complying with regulatory requirements. Everyone in your organization needs access to the right information at the right time in order to gain a competitive edge and ensure greater control of business operations.

To succeed, you need to close the gap between strategy and operational execution by cascading corporate goals down into department-relevant metrics; ensuring accountability; enabling intuitive modeling, monitoring, and analysis; and streamlining execution of strategy-guided plans.

Drive Financial and Operational Performance

SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management solutions can help your company capitalize on the value of your existing data assets. With these solutions, your organization can become more agile – gaining organizational alignment, visibility, and confidence that give you optimal control and competitive advantage. These solutions can integrate with SAP Business Suite applications; SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance solutions; SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence solutions; and SAP BusinessObjects information management solutions. As a result, you can maximize business profitability, manage risk and compliance, and optimize corporate systems, people, and processes.

SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management solutions offer comprehensive functionality for:

• Strategy management – Set your goals, map your strategies, and then monitor and manage performance from high-level objectives down to operational metrics.
• Planning and consolidation – Increase accuracy in planning at every level in your organization, while reducing budget cycles and associated costs. Accelerate and improve your financial and management reporting and decision making.
• Financial consolidation – Complete your financial consolidation and reporting cycles faster – with complete confidence in your data.
• XBRL publishing – Simplify and accelerate the preparation of XBRL documents to communicate financial and business data.
• Financial information management – Leverage powerful connectivity, mapping, and loading functionality designed for business users.
• Intercompany reconciliation – Accelerate your close by enabling your business units to debate and reconcile balances directly with one another and eliminate delays at the corporate and divisional levels.
• Profitability and cost management – Identify the causes of underperformance, and take action to reduce costs and optimize profitability across dimensions such as product, customer, and channel.
• Spend performance management – Maximize cost savings and reduce supplier risk by gaining continuous visibility into company-wide spending patterns, savings potential, and external market factors.
• Supply chain performance management – Measurably improve supply chain effectiveness by focusing on actionable, operational process metrics that impact supply chain performance.