With today's focus on financial management, is your agency facing increased pressure to show results for each budget dollar spent? The bottom line is clear and present: Programs that cannot demonstrate results are reduced or eliminated.

That's why central and federal agencies around the world are partnering with SAP to achieve their performance and financial management objectives.

SAP BusinessObjects solutions support outcome based management, enabling government entities to define and monitor strategic goals, outputs and outcomes; formulate administrative and programmatic budgets; and make informed decisions based on detailed analysis of program and output costs. By integrating budget, cost, and performance, you can capture opportunities to reallocate money to programs with proven impact, realigning resources where they are most useful – and maximizing the impact of your organization.

With SAP BusinessObjects solutions, you can leverage comprehensive functionality that supports:

• Strategic management of resources – Optimize efficiency by aligning strategy with individual, functional, and divisional performance measures.
• Planning, budgeting, and forecasting – Efficiently manage and measure organizational plans and enable proactive, rather than reactive, tactics.
• Consolidation and financial reporting – Accelerate the financial close process and have confidence in delivering the information your organization and stakeholders require.
• Financial governance and compliance control – Ensure that financial processes meet compliance requirements worldwide to mitigate risk.
• Cost modeling – Manage cost through a real-time understanding of all cost (including IT services costing), capacity, and revenue.

Solutions that support performance budgeting and cost management include:

• SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management
• SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
• SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management

Want to Learn More?

"Financial Performance Management" (PDF).