Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)



What is EPM - Enterprise Performance Management ?

EPM - Enterprise Performance Management is a strategic approach to improving business performance in an enterprise. The successful EPM implementation involves setting and deployment of tools, applications, methods and indicators to observe and manage business performance in an organization.

There are three questions that need to be answered to Manage Performance:

  • How are we doing? - what has happened? The question is answered by Scorecards and Dashboards
  • Why? - why it happened? The question is answered by Reporting and Analytics
  • What should we be doing? - What needs to be done? The question is answered by Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting

    The Enterprise Performance Management strategy is usually implemented in the following key business areas and relates to the following subjects:
    - Customer Relationship Management
    - Financial Performance Management
    - Supply Chain Management
    - Strategy Management, Corporate Performance Management
    - Business Planning and Consolidation
    - Workforce Analytics
    - Business Intelligence Applications - data warehouses and data marts

    EPM providers

    ARC Retail Business Intelligence Suite
    ARC Retail Business Intelligence SuiteARC is a comprehensive performance management solution for retail. This EPM solution helps retailers analyze the performance of their business from store to supply chain and it...
    SAP EPM solutions
    SAP EPM solutionsSAP recognized the importance of supporting EPM by establishing a cross-functional unit, focusing on business performance optimization. This unit brings together integrated...
    Business Objects EPM
    Business Objects EPMBusiness Objects EPM solutions help link together the processes and provide a common view of the business thus turn the organization into a performance driven enterprise by:...
    Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management
    Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance ManagementOracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) enables organizations to achieve high performance by aligning the right information and resources to strategic...