SAP Acquires Corporate Performance Software Firm Pilot Software

In a move to enhance its business analytics offerings, enterprise software purveyor SAP AG has acquired Pilot Software, a specialist in corporate performance management technology.
The acquisition of Pilot continues SAP's strategy of acquiring small companies that it can use to strengthen its overall product portfolio.

Microsoft webcasts on PPS 2007 in February 2007

1. Performance Management 101 with PerformancePoint Server 2007 (Level 200)

Shows how Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can help corporations improve their business performance process by integrating monitoring, analysis, and planning capabilities into one application.

Presenter: Bruno Aziza, Product Manager for Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Corporation

2. Business Intelligence with Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 (Level 300)

Join this webcast to learn how Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can enable your corporation to improve business performance processes. Learn how to successfully integrate monitoring, analysis, and planning into one performance management application. In this session, see how Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 and ProClarity Analytics come together in PerformancePoint Server 2007 to support the performance management life cycle.

Presenter: Rex Parker, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation

3. Business Intelligence Using PerformancePoint Server 2007 Business Modeling (Level 200)

Tuesday, February 20, 2007
1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Do you feel that your business spends more time collecting and validating data than analyzing and planning? Join this webcast to see how Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can help make planning, budgeting, and forecasting part of a dynamic, ongoing performance management process. PerformancePoint Server 2007 utilizes the stability, security, and scalability of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence. This enables business users to interact with and continuously contribute to business planning, budgeting, and forecasting information using Microsoft Office Excel, a program your users are likely to be familiar with and find easy to use. Attend this session to get an overview of the Business Modeler component of PerformancePoint Server 2007.

Presenter: Lucy Smythe, Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation

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Business Objects Insight Performance Management 2007 User Conference

Business Objects Performance Management User Conference to Spotlight Industry Best Practices, Innovative Products, and Customer Success

Business Objects, the world’s leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced details for its annual performance management user conference, Business Objects Insight Performance Management 2007. The event, taking place March 11 – 14 at the Royal Pacific Resort in Orlando, Florida, will address the future of performance management and how companies can leverage Business Objects solutions to improve overall planning, budgeting, and reporting efforts. The conference will allow customers to update their product knowledge, network with others from the finance community, and meet Business Objects executives and technical experts.

General sessions and breakout meetings at Insight Performance Management 2007 will explore three main topic areas: cost and profitability, budgeting and reporting, and strategy and solutions. In addition, dynamic product demonstrations will highlight the latest in performance management technologies from Business Objects.

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