This article concludes the “Customize Budgeting Reports” series.
How to Customize Budgeting Reports: Part 2
Tag Archives: KPIs
The Most Efficient Reporting & Analysis Tools
This article will highlight essential reporting and analysis features in Corporate Performance Management solutions.
Best Corporate Performance Management Tools for Credit Unions
This article will focus on how what you should be looking for in the Best Performance Management Tools for Credit Unions.
What is Corporate Performance Management? According to the Harvard Business School, performance measurement focuses on four main areas:
- Communicate with external investors to ensure that a firms’ securities are fairly priced and that they are able to access capital
- Measure and Evaluate a firms’ economic performance
- Improve resource allocation and strategy implementation within a firm
- Build Accountability for performance through effective external and internal governance
The emphasis of this article will be on improving resource allocation and strategy implementation, specifically for Credit Unions. Though Credit Unions have evolved over time, their basic function is to take in deposits and reinvest those funds back into the community in the form of loans for such things as houses, cars, education, and infrastructure. Continue reading
Top 8 Acronyms Used in Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management
This article focuses on terms that will educate and help those who are new to the BI/CPM realm.
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Have you ever started a new job in an industry you have no experience in? Learning the industry jargon can be overwhelming. I can personally attest to this because prior to working in the Business Intelligence (BI) and Corporate Performance Management (CPM) worlds, I was in the food, public relations, and entertainment industries, and did not have much experience in BI or CPM. If you have recently been exposed to BI tools, such as report writers, budgeting and planning solutions, dashboards, data warehouses (DWs) and you feel like a deer in headlights, there is no need to panic. In this article, we will discuss ten acronyms in the BI/CPM realm that will help you understand and enhance your experience with BI and CPM processes.
Cloud-Based Enterprise Reporting for Banks
This article will focus on the Cloud-Based Enterprise Reporting for Banks.
What is Enterprise Reporting? In the past, Business Intelligence (BI) was limited to the office of Finance and typically with a key focus on Financial, Planning & Analysis (FP&A). With the advent of Enterprise Reporting, BI is now being extending beyond the scope of IT staff, business analysts, and power users. Enterprise reporting is enabling anyone who impacts the bank – city executives, branch managers, loan & deposit analysts, and customer-facing staff – to have immediate access to the vital information they need to most productively perform their jobs. Continue reading
Easy Cloud-based Reporting for Banks
This article will focus on Easy Cloud-based Reporting for Banks.
Have you ever wondered why Do It Yourself (DIY) shows are so popular? According to a Country Living article, “There’s a before, during and after in one TV show—so, you basically get to the happy ending very quickly.” In other words, your renovations might take weeks or months (or, God forbid, years), while Chip and Joanna’s Gaines home makeover requires less than an hour of your time. And in the end it looks perfect, unlike what you may have experienced.
What is wonderful about these shows is that they take homes that are a total wreck and transform them into beautiful showcases where we wish we could live in them. In almost all cases, the projects are within budget, finish on time, and result in a very happy customer.
Cloud-based BI Solutions for Banking
This article will focus on Cloud-based Business Intelligence Solutions for Banking.
Why do I love my iPod Classic? – I got my 80GB iPod Classic around 2007. I was able to load all 14,000 songs from my library onto it. I created several playlists that helped me organize the songs. One playlist consisted of heavy metal that got me amped up before going to the gym. Another playlist contained acoustic folk songs that were for the morning after a late night of fun. Continue reading
My Prediction: Convergence between Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management Vendors in the Mid-Market
This article will focus on the demand for convergence of Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management tools and why this benefits mid-market companies.
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The latest release of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence strengthened my conviction that the market will see consolidation between the Business Intelligence/Visualization (BI) and Corporate Performance Management (CPM) vendors. Gartner classifies them in separate quadrants because the respective tools are evaluated differently during the sales process. Furthermore, BI tools usually sell into marketing and sales teams while CPM targets finance and accounting professionals. Consequently, there has been limited Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) in the space. Note that this article assumes readers are familiar with the basic definitions to focus on a narrative explaining the demand for their convergence.
Top Cloud-based Financial Planning and Analysis Budget Tools for Banks
This article will focus on the Top Cloud-based Financial Planning &Analysis (FP&A) Budget Tools for Banks.
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The way things used to be – When I first got into building a budget for a bank, we were using Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets that were stored on 5¼ inch floppy disks. The spreadsheet was basically a 24-month trial balance for each branch or department. The first eighteen months contained historical balances. The remaining eighteen months were the forecast for the rest of the current year and budget for next year.
Dashboards for Real Estate Companies Using Microsoft Dynamics GP
This article will discuss dashboard solutions for real estate companies that are seeking to enhance Microsoft Dynamics GP data analyses.
Visualization has some beneficial side effects. Visualization improves your performance; helps reach your potential, increases focus, boosts confidence, and so much more. Think about professional athletes. For instance, everyone from tennis player Serena Williams to Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was a world champion body builder before he became an actor, have practiced visualization techniques. It makes sense to apply visuals to your financial reports and presentations. Think about receiving a stack of spreadsheets full of data. Is this how you extract your financial analysis? This is where a dashboard comes into play. The amount of data being created every year continues to grow tremendously. If your organization wants to make informed decisions, your company leaders need to be able to access and interpret data in real-time. The ability to act quickly on the data has become a competitive differentiator. A dashboard presents key data on a single page and uses visuals to summarize a large amount of data. In this article, we will discuss how dashboards will help real estate companies that are using Dynamics GP. Continue reading
