SmartBiz IT Research Library

Concerns over a looming economic slowdown are serving as a wake-up call for organizations to re-evaluate current management and operational processes to drive improved performance. Faced with increased pressure to gain competitive advantage and deliver results, IT executives are turning to integrated business intelligence (BI) and performance management solutions to achieve management excellence.

Join us July 16, 2008, for our virtual tradeshow on Enterprise Performance Management: The Next Generation of Performance Management and BI.

Through a series of online presentations, industry experts will offer advice on how to standardize and automate management processes and integrate performance management and BI solutions to optimize enterprise-wide performance. Also, don't miss the unique chance to chat one-on-one with Oracle executives in the online interactive chat room!

Benefit from these key sessions:

• Session 1: Business Performance: Getting In Gear
• Session 2: Achieving Management Excellence: The Next Boardroom Discussion
• Session 3: Leading Practices for Successful Enterprise Performance Management sponsored by BearingPoint
• Session 4: Integrated Performance Management - Diagnosing your Strengths & Weaknesses, Sponsored by Deloitte
• Session 5: Enabling the Agile Enterprise Through Corporate Performance Management, Sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers

Attend this complimentary virtual seminar to hear from performance management experts from Forrester Research, AMR Research, and Oracle senior executives.

Specifically you will learn:

• Best practices for supporting strategic, financial and operational processes across a common foundation to enable management excellence.
• Practical methodologies to ensure consistency, accuracy and a central point of deployment across all BI tools using the Oracle Unified Enterprise Information Model.
• How to assess your company's performance management readiness and overcome common integration deployment challenges.
• The value of management processes like "gain to sustain", "investigate to invest", and "analyze to adjust."
• How Oracle is delivering on its EPM strategy and vision, 12 months on from the Hyperion acquisition.
• Key benefits of the newly released Oracle EPM System and how it complements your existing Oracle, PeopleSoft or SAP ERP environment.
• Expert insight from BearingPoint, WIPRO Technologies, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte.

Attend interactive live chat sessions with Oracle executives and WIPRO Technologies as they discuss best practices related to EPM deployment, enterprise planning, consolidation and reporting and business intelligence. The first 200 Oracle booth visitors will receive a free copy of "The Performance Management Revolution" by Howard Dresner.