Overview
IBM’s Business Performance Management Services are focused on helping finance organizations use information as an asset to support and enhance business planning and forecasting, performance monitoring and business intelligence. IBM can help CFOs unleash the power of their financial and enterprise information and business intelligence by implementing the processes and systems needed to integrate information across the entire value chain.
By using our holistic approach consisting of strategy to design through implementation, which encompasses people, process, information content and technology transformation, IBM can help link performance measures with strategy and operational imperatives. These measures can then be applied in a timely, cost-effective manner, while delivering role-based intelligence to executives, managers and information consumers.
Business Challenges
Can you use your performance measurements to develop a long-term strategy for growth?
Is the speed, or lack thereof, of collections impacting your bottom line?
Is your organization able to adjust plans continuously and fix or improve operations with up-to-date information about market conditions and the status of operational processes?
Can you provide executives with an effective mechanism for communicating strategy and expectations to managers and staff at all levels of the organization?
Business performance management services that we offer
Business performance management (BPM) strategy and roadmap development
Performance reporting and analytics process and content design
Planning, budgeting, forecasting, process and content design
BPM application and architecture design and implementation
Controls and compliance monitoring and reporting
Why IBM?
The development of a BPM vision, process and system design, framework and analytical capabilities and techniques can be supported by IBM’s intellectual capital and broad expertise across industry and geographies. With more than 4,100 financial management resources located across the globe, IBM has a strong record of serving as a trusted advisor to CFOs and finance leaders. Our dedicated teams of research and thought leadership professionals provide insights into the issues facing finance professionals through deep finance function expertise coupled with effective technology implementation and integration capability.
Our Business Performance Management practice includes over 400 engagements with companies over the past three years. IBM Financial Management Consulting Services brings strong partnerships; we are the number one SAP Consulting Provider and a leading integrator of Oracle/Hyperion applications. Our recent acquisition of Cognos has added over 200 experienced practitioners to our Financial Management practice. In addition, our experienced finance executives have worked with 75% of the global Fortune 50 and 80% of the FT 50.
