5 Tips to Determine When to Move from Spreadsheet Budgeting
February 16, 2010 1:00 P.M. ET
This session will focus on how business performance management can cost effectively address the needs of the midmarket. It will include 5 tips to help you determine when to move from spreadsheet budgeting to enterprise analytic applications.
Upcoming Sessions in the BPM101/201 30-Minute Webcast Series:
10 Best Practices to Reduce BPM Risk and Accelerate Time to Benefit
Performance Dashboards - Why Requirements Definition and Metrics Selection Can be More Important than Technology
What's Next - 10 Considerations to Expand Beyond Budgeting and Planning
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Archived
OnDemand Webcasts
Beyond the Hype 2010: The Importance of Performance Management
How to Get More Performance Management for Less Cost and Risk
Replay Now Available - Originally Broadcast January 21, 2010
In this edition of the annual industry leading webcast you will learn how to make your performance project more successful, more comprehensive, with more buy-in using less time, resources, and risk. This past year, organizations have recognized that business performance management is even more important in volatile financial times, but buyers have been more cost sensitive when choosing their technology investments. Some vendors have responded to these commercial shifts, while others continue to invest in expanding their range of offerings. BPM Partners will summarize the changes and provide guidance to minimize your risk during these complicated times. Participants can expect specific, actionable information that will assist them in successfully implementing their current or future performance management initiative. This is the eighth annual installment of this popular webcast series.
World-class Performance Management
Not Just for the Fortune 500
Replay Now Available - Originally Broadcast September 22, 2009
In the past, only the largest companies could invest sufficiently in comprehensive performance management to help optimize their business in real time. Mid-sized to smaller companies were relegated to using spreadsheets as the primary way to gauge a company's financial well-being.
During this Webcast, you will learn about the findings of a groundbreaking study of CFOs and that there are alternatives that fit the needs of more modest budgets.
How to Use BPM to Drive Profitability and Cost Optimization
Replay Now Available - Originally Broadcast July 30, 2009
Today's challenging economic climate makes manual, spreadsheet-driven processes more perilous than ever. Business Performance Management (BPM) has become critical for finance executives and CEOs looking to understand how to optimize the effectiveness of their organization and where to cut costs without significantly impacting profitability and performance. Two of the most important areas of BPM where organizations typically see the fastest return are budgeting, planning, and forecasting and profitability modeling. Join our panel of experts as they share insight and answers to questions about using BPM to drive profitability and cost optimization.
The Hidden Secrets of Performance Dashboard Success
Replay Now Available - Originally Broadcast May 20, 2009
A common learning that eludes many first time performance management dashboard developers is that technology selection is only one small part of an overall successful dashboard initiative. This session will help provide guidance on technology enablers, but will also assist in discussing how to garner executive support, and how to determine measures and KPIs that matter.
Beyond the Hype 2009
An Unbiased Review of BPM Vendors, Trends and Customer Satisfaction
Replay Now Available - Originally Broadcast January 22, 2009
This seventh annual installment will contain the most up to date information available on what is happening in the world of business performance management. How have the newly merged mega-vendors fared in the past year? How has the global economy impacted BPM projects? What are companies doing about IFRS? Who are the core vendors that most companies should consider for their new or replacement BPM projects? All these questions and more will be answered so that you can integrate our unbiased research into your own BPM plans.
Spreadsheet Chaos to Integrated BPM Application
Six Steps to Success
Replay Now Available - Originally Broadcast September 23, 2008
In a business climate that requires absolute confidence in your financial data, auditing capabilities and the ability to drill down quickly and correctly - every time ... stringing together spreadsheets just doesn't cut it. You know you need to make a change ... where do you start? How long will it take to get there? Join us as we explore the 6 steps that will take you from spreadsheet chaos to an integrated BPM application.
IFRS Readiness: Preparing for the Inevitable
Proactive First Steps for the 2009 Deadline
Replay Now Available - Originally Broadcast September 11, 2008
Mounting evidence suggests that the SEC has realized the value in global accounting standards and is accelerating measures to retire US GAAP and require public companies to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Learn how this historic event will impact and alter the finance function, as well as what critical first steps must be taken for your organization to be prepared.
Moving from Legacy Business Intelligence to Optimized BPM
Challenges, Benefits, and Tips for Upgrading Your BI Platform
Replay Now Available - Originally Broadcast July 16, 2008
Many organizations have legacy business intelligence systems that can't provide the information required by key business decision-makers. Enhanced performance management applications might be the answer. Discover how and when to convert, and best practices to follow.
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Strategic Budgeting
Aligning Budgets to Business Performance Planning
Replay Now Available - Originally Broadcast June 17, 2008
Does your organization's budget reflect its strategic goals or set guidelines on how to achieve those goals? By gaining knowledge of strategic budgeting processes and utilizing the latest forecasting techniques, you can ensure that your organization will stay ahead of the pack.
Proactive Performance Management
Budgeting and Planning that Yields Results
Replay Now Available - Originally Broadcast June 12, 2008
Focusing on budgeting and planning that yields results, this webcast looks at understanding variance from plan, getting back on track, and making it all happen as quickly as possible. Learn how to avoid the challenges of multiple data exports, linked spreadsheets, and limited visibility.
Temporarily unavailable. Check back soon.
Frequent Forecasting
For Improved Business Performance
Replay Now Available - Originally Broadcast April 8 , 2008
You don't have to be a weatherman to forecast the outcome of your organization. The tools are at your fingertips and with a bit of data intelligence, preparing forecasts on a regular basis can become part of your planning routine. Learn how to use information and data to bring more visibility to current corporate status. Learn best practices for achieving forecast results and allow your organization to put frequent forecasting into concrete practice.
A CFO's Guide to Analytics
A Business Finance Influencers Webcast
Replay Now Available - Originally Broadcast April 3, 2008
During this Webcast, two of the market's most influential thought-leaders on performance management will explain how analytics can help you go beyond just managing performance to improving it. You'll also hear a real-world story from an organization about their adoption of analytics and how they successfully addressed the change management challenges.
Practical BPM
The Essential Guide
Replay Now Available - Originally Broadcast February 12, 2008
It's no secret finance executives have never had more options to choose from when it comes to selecting and adopting business performance management (BPM) technologies. However, choosing the BPM offering best suited for your organization has never been more challenging. The expanding functionality of BPM technologies, along with the changing needs of today's enterprise organizations, call for a practical and adaptive approach to selecting the correct BPM solution for your company. Learn how to identify the BPM functionality core to your organization's business and how to map out a practical approach to BPM adoption that will allow your company to correctly leverage actionable information and achieve BPM success.
Beyond the Hype 2008
The Annual Unbiased Guide to BPM Vendors, Trends, and Customer Satisfaction
Includes: Inaugural BPM Partners Vendor Landscape Matrix, List of "Core" Vendors for 2008 and 2008 BPM Pulse Survey Satisfaction Ratings Replay Now Available - Originally Broadcast January 15, 2008
This past year has seen dramatic changes in the business performance management vendor landscape. BPM Partners will summarize the changes and their potential impact as well as provide guidance to minimize your risk during these complicated times. Participants can expect specific, actionable information that will assist them in successfully implementing their current or future performance management initiative. This is the sixth annual installment of this popular webcast series.
How Integrated Financial Compliance Lowers the Cost of SOX
The Convergence of Performance Management and GRC
Replay Now Available - Originally Broadcast July 12, 2007
Up to now, corporations have used tools and processes that are highly manual and disconnected from their financial performance management systems to document and test internal controls. Such an approach removes a corporation’s financial governance, risk management and compliance processes from the trusted foundation of its consolidation and reporting processes and makes auditing and compliance with Section 302 and 404 difficult and expensive.
This webcast will show you how to exploit better ways to manage the financial reporting and compliance processes. Expert speakers include BPM Partners, Cartesis, and Ernst & Young.
Virtual
Finance Forum
Virtual
Conference and Exhibition for Finance Executives
Replay Now Available - Originally Broadcast June
19, 2007
This Cognos-sponsored
event will bring you practical advice and proven strategies
designed to help you solve performance management challenges
you face in your organization. From your desk, you'll have
access to compelling conference sessions, speakers, partner
solutions, customer testimonials and a wide range of product
and solution exhibits. BPM Partners' Craig
Schiff will talk about the changes taking place in
the performance management industry and how they should impact
buying decisions.
Transform
Your Planning
Success
Stories from Mid-Market Companies
Replay Now Available - Originally Broadcast June
19, 2007
Join BPM Partners;
CollabNet; and Adaptive Planning, as they discuss "BPM 2.0," exciting new approaches that
are transforming the staid world of spreadsheet-based budgeting,
forecasting, and reporting. In addition to examining the drivers
of BPM 2.0, they will also review numerous real-world
success stories from companies that have benefited
from these key new techniques.
Integrated
BI and BPM for the Mid-Enterprise
Featured
Case Study: Denver Water
Replay
Now Available - Originally Broadcast April 24, 2007
Learn about the
roadmap to success for Mid-Enterprise companies looking to
implement integrated BI and BPM systems. Small and Medium
Enterprises (SMEs) don't have to accept watered-down or limited
functionality versions of the major vendor's packages to fit
their budgets. BPM Partners' Craig Schiff will
outline the key requirements of mid-size companies.
Predictive
Performance Management
Featured
Case Study: Wachovia
Replay
Now Available - Originally Broadcast April 10, 2007
Join BPM Partners’
John Colbert and SAS’ Aiman Zeid as
they discuss why analytics and performance management are
a perfect match, and how this powerful combination can help
you: proactively forecast, plan and analyze business performance;
develop a broader, more precise customer profile; react to
business challenges faster and more effectively; eliminate
guesswork by predicting outcomes via reliable, repeatable
models.
Beyond
the Hype 2007
Fifth
Annual Unbiased Review of BPM Vendors and Trends
Replay
Now Available - Originally Broadcast January 18, 2007
This highly anticipated
annual event is our most popular webcast of the year. See
the results of our BPM Pulse survey and how users rated their
satisfaction with their vendors (it's not too late to add
your voice to the Pulse).
Find out how many companies really use the Balanced Scorecard.
Discover where predictive analytics and profitability analysis
really fall on user's BPM priority lists. Watch as we announce
for the first time our 2007 list of the top BPM vendors and
name the best new vendor of the year.
Feedback from attendees
of the live webcast:
Excellent
comprehensive presentation!!
The
webcast was not only informative but the market research
very up to date
Great
information for potential buyers.
BPM
Benchmarking: A CFO.com Webcast Event
How
Do Your Budgeting and Forecasting Processes Stack Up?
Replay
Now Available - Originally Broadcast December 5, 2006
Interested in how your
finance team stacks up against others? Adaptive Planning and
BPM Partners will report on a definitive benchmarking survey
to help companies learn how their financial processes compare
with both industry best practices and those of their peers.
Join Rob Hull,
founder and CFO of Adaptive Planning, and Craig Schiff,
CEO of BPM Partners, for a free webcast that will highlight
strategies for achieving best practice performance and summarize
the survey results. Citing real-world case studies, you will
also learn concrete steps to improve your budgeting, forecasting,
and reporting processes.
The
Next Generation of Performance Management
The
Road to Becoming a Predictable Enterprise
Replay
Now Available - Originally Broadcast November 15, 2006
With core performance
management capabilities companies now have a streamlined budgeting
and reporting process, but are they really able to make better
decisions? Join Craig Schiff of BPM Partners
and John Hack of OutlookSoft to discover
how to power the predictable enterprise through optimized
reporting, improved data accuracy and consistency, and predictive
analytics capabilities leading to more informed and proactive
measurement and decision-making.
Performance
Management 2.0
Beyond
the Basics
Replay
Now Available - Originally Broadcast September 27, 2006
As performance
management becomes more pervasive, applications are extending
from their financial roots of budgeting, planning and financial
consolidations into more operationally oriented initiatives.
In this session you will learn what's available, what's coming,
and what it may mean to your BPM initiative. Expert speakers
include Craig Schiff, CEO, BPM Partners and
Marc Altshuller, VP, Varicent Software.
Simple
Steps for Improving This Year's Budgeting Process
A
CFO.com Webcast
Replay
Now Available - Originally Broadcast June 20, 2006
The 2007 budgeting
and planning process is just around the corner. If you want
this year to be different from the past, you need to start
planning now. Fortunately, by taking a few simple steps you
can make this year's process far easier than ever before.
Expert speakers include Craig Schiff, CEO,
BPM Partners.
BPM
Revealed: The Naked Truth About Implementation
A
Business Finance Influencers Webcast
Replay
Now Available - Originally Broadcast May 23, 2006
Supported by new
research conducted by BPM magazine, this important "Influencers"
webcast will thoroughly examine the critical factor for success
in BPM -- implementation, the critical point where initiatives
either succeed or fail. Topics will include: best practices,
common pitfalls, and the role of consultants. Featuring an
expert panel that includes David Blansfield, Group
Publisher, Penton Media and Craig Schiff,
CEO, BPM Partners.
From
Performance Management to Predictable Performance
Powering
the Predictable Enterprise
Replay
Now Available - Originally Broadcast April 13, 2006
During this webcast
you will learn how performance management enhances enterprise-wide
compliance, accountability, and transparency. In addition,
the latest advances in predictive analytics and their ability
to help you proactively forecast, plan, and analyze business
performance will be discussed. Expert speakers include John
Hack, OutlookSoft, and John Colbert,
BPM Partners.
Best
Practices in Selecting Performance Management Software
Key
Steps to Identifying the Ideal Solution
Replay
Now Available - Originally Broadcast March 22, 2006 This webcast will feature Craig Schiff,
CEO, BPM Partners, Stephen Nelson, Director,
Product Marketing, Clarity Systems, and Brad Mouvais,
Product Manager, AIMCO.
Chart
of Accounts Standardization
Mastering
Financial Meta Data
Replay
Now Available - Originally Broadcast March 14, 2006
The Chart of Accounts structure is one of the most
important business dimensions that the Finance team manages.
As the overhead required to manage this critical dimension
increases with corporate growth and success, there becomes
an adverse affect on the quality of data, resources to ensure
accuracy, timeliness of results and compliance with governance
standards. Featured speakers: Ian Ahern,
CEO, Stratature and Craig Schiff, CEO, BPM
Partners
Beyond
the Hype 2006
An
Unbiased Look at BPM Vendors and Trends
Replay
Now Available - Originally Broadcast January 19, 2006 This is the fourth annual installment of our very
popular Beyond the Hype series. During the webcast we will
reveal for the first time our list of 'core' vendors for 2006
and the results of the BPM Pulse satisfaction survey. Learn
from the experts at BPM Partners, as well as your peers who
took the survey, detailed and vendor specific information
that will help you succeed with your own BPM initiative. The
expert panel for this webcast will be David Blansfield,
Group Publisher - Penton Media, and Craig Schiff,
CEO, BPM Partners.
Best
Practices in Budgeting, Forecasting, and Reporting
Convert
an Annual Headache into a Competitive Advantage
Replay Now Available - Originally Broadcast November 10, 2005
Join
industry experts Craig Schiff, CEO, BPM Partners
and Robert Hull, CEO, Adaptive Planning as
they discuss real-world best practices in budgeting, forecasting,
and reporting. You will learn: tips and techniques
for implementing a collaborative and more timely budgeting
process, how to tie execution to strategy by ensuring managers
have a common view of goals and performance, and the key technology
considerations when looking for a budgeting, forecasting,
and reporting solution.
Everything
You Ever Wanted to Know About Budgeting And Planning
An
Expert Panel Discussion
Replay Now Available - Originally Broadcast November 2, 2005
This Geac-sponsored panel webcast will enable you to get answers
to every burning, persistent question you have about financial
operations. When you register you can pose a question
about budgeting, planning, or performance management in general.
John Colbert of BPM Partners is one of the
expert panelists who will answer your questions.
Jumpstart
Your BPM Initiative with Portal-Based Dashboards
Real
World Benefits and Best Practices to Assure Success
Replay
Now Available - Originally Broadcast September 27, 2005
Information dashboards are the
most visible and widely distributed component of most Business
Performance Management (BPM) implementations. According to
a recent survey, 83% of dashboards are implemented on top
of a portal server. Join Craig Schiff, CEO
of BPM Partners, as he explores the advantages of portal-based
dashboards and discusses best practices for any dashboard
implementation.
Prior
Webcasts
Although replays
are no longer available, BPM Partners can include the content
of these sessions in a BPM
Master Class delivered on-site.
Getting Results from BPM: A Guide for Energy Professionals
Originally Broadcast May 19, 2009
Operational Performance Management Using SaaS
Originally Broadcast May 12, 2009
Strategic Financial Consolidation Process
Reduce the Cycle Time
Originally Broadcast November 12, 2008
The CFO's Guide to Unified and Open Performance Management
Understanding the Value of these Critical Success Factors
Originally Broadcast October 21, 2008
The Evolution of Corporate Performance Management
The Trend Toward Unified Management of Financial and Operational Processes
Originally Broadcast November 29, 2007
How Finance Teams Can Achieve New Levels of Success in 2008
Best Practices of Top-Performing Finance Teams
Originally Broadcast November 6, 2007
Best Practices in Performance Management Implementations
Learn from the Experts
Originally Broadcast October 25, 2007
Critical Performance Management Components for SMBs
Why You Need More than Excel for Budgeting, Planning, and Reporting
Originally Broadcast September 26, 2007
The Transition from Spreadsheet Budgets
SMBs Making the Move
Originally
Broadcast September 12, 2007
Budgeting
Best Practices Series
Moving
from Spreadsheets to a Performance Management System
Originally
Broadcast February 20, 2007
Predictive
Analytics 101
What
It Is and How It Can Improve Your Business Performance
Originally
Broadcast October 18, 2006
Taking
BPM to the Next Level
GE
Healthcare's Formula for Extending BPM Beyond Financial Planning
Originally
Broadcast September 26, 2006
Critical
Steps to Automating BPM in the Professional Services Industry
Focus
on Budgeting and Planning
Originally
Broadcast May 10, 2006
Aligning
Sales Performance with Strategic Objectives
Through
Incentive Compensation
Originally
Broadcast April 26, 2006
Driving
Revenue Goals While Efficiently Using Human Capital
With
Driver-Based Budgeting
Originally
Broadcast April 5, 2006
BPM
101
What
is Business Performance Management and What are the Benefits?
Originally
Broadcast May 4, 2005
Launching
a BPM Initiative
10
Steps to Success
Originally
Broadcast March 30 , 2005
Beyond
the Hype 2005
An
Unbiased Look at BPM Vendors and Trends
Originally
Broadcast February 1, 2005
Keys
to Successful KPI Development and Implementation
Originally
Broadcast November 17, 2004
BPM/CPM
for the Mid-Market Financial Services Firm
Originally
Broadcast September 8, 2004
How
to Build the Business Case for BPM
Taking
BPM from Vision to Reality: Getting Your Initiative Off the
Ground Originally Broadcast July
28, 2004
BPM
Strategies 2004
Online Conference and Expo Originally Broadcast March
25, 2004
Maximizing
Performance Management ROI
Getting Your Requirements Right First
Online Virtual BPM Trade Show
ran from January 21 - April 14, 2004
Beyond the Hype 2004
An Unbiased Look at BPM Vendors and Trends Originally Broadcast January
8, 2004
BPM
Consulting Guide Live! The Truth about BPM Implementations
INTRODUCING BPM.Xpo
Beyond the Hype: The Truth About BPM Vendors 2003 Too many choices, not enough information?
