Business Objects, an SAP company and the world's leading provider of solutions that optimize business performance, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites" report.

Meridium Inc., the global leader in asset performance management software and consulting solutions, today announced that Samarco Mineracao S.A has implemented Meridium software to ensure the stability of its operations and industrial processes with practices that reconcile the best possible availability, with a guarantee of high reliability.

CIOs face a common battle to balance the warring requirements of providing critical business value with maximum efficiency and cost savings. As they look to simplify their IT infrastructure, they must consider where it makes sense to draw a line in the sand and say "Here's what my vendor ERP can do, and here's what we need performance management to do - the two are not the same, and we must have ...

It's dangerous to delay efforts to improve performance. Effectiveness in achieving goals and objectives has replaced efficiency as the most impactful business priority. Delay will impact performance; every day in which you aren’t able to respond to a market or competitive challenge is a day lost. Your business depends on achieving planned results. To do that, management must be empowered and ...

As leading economic indicators signal a global economic slowdown through 2009, companies are looking for effective steps to take to weather the storm and achieve a competitive edge in the eventual recovery.

Independent analyst firm Yphise named SAS ® Strategic Performance Management No. 1 in its assessment of strategy management applications. SAS, the leader in business analytics , topped Oracle/Hyperion, SAP/Business Objects, IBM/Cognos and Microsoft.

Making BI and performance management work requires agreement from all stakeholders Improving business performance is a goal that cannot be realized without mutual cooperation and alignment between business and IT. In collaboration, IT focuses on architecture, system administration, scalability and performance, security and infrastructure, while business evaluates the practical usability and ...

Business Objects, an SAP company (NYSE: SAP - News), today announced that both SAP and non-SAP customers worldwide are continuing to embrace its enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions, relying on the BusinessObjects(TM) Profitability and Cost Management application to remain competitive and atop their respective markets during uncertain economic times.

CARY, N.C.----Independent analyst firm Yphise named SAS® Strategic Performance Management No. 1 in its assessment of strategy management applications. SAS, the leader in business analytics, topped Oracle/Hyperion, SAP/Business Objects, IBM/Cognos and Microsoft.

ServiceSource, a San Francisco-based Service Performance Management leader for the high-tech industry, launched its inaugural Service Share Index, an industry benchmark for measuring the amount of revenue captured from a company’s Total Available Market (TAM) for service maintenance and contract renewals. With a wide range of high-tech customers and partners, ServiceSource has unique access into ...

SAN FRANCISCO----ServiceSource, a San Francisco-based Service Performance Management leader for the high-tech industry, launched its inaugural Service Share Index, an industry benchmark for measuring the amount of revenue captured from a company’s Total Available Market for service maintenance and contract renewals.