In today's increasingly global and competitive business environment, your team is under increasing pressure to be more certain, to act faster, and to achieve more – often with fewer resources.

To succeed, you need to close the gap between strategy and execution by cascading corporate goals down into department-relevant metrics; ensuring accountability; enabling trusted reporting and analysis; and streamlining execution of strategy-guided and risk-aware plans.

The latest release of SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management solutions are designed specifically to help you meet these challenges. Your business users benefit from more precision, faster time to value and a new user experience. Extending beyond the boundaries of finance, SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management solutions offer comprehensive functionality for:

• Strategy management – Set your goals, map your strategies, and then manage performance from high-level objectives to operational metrics.
• Planning and consolidation – Increase the accuracy and effectiveness of planning, budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting processes.
• Financial consolidation – Complete your financial consolidation and reporting cycles faster – with complete confidence in your data.
• Disclosure management – Ensure a timely, accurate, and risk-free close process by managing the production, filing, and publication of financial and regulatory statements and reports.
• Notes management – Streamline the collection and management of financial notes to help improve your financial statements and reports.
• Financial information management – Leverage powerful connectivity, mapping, and loading functionality designed for business users.
• Intercompany reconciliation – Accelerate your close by enabling business units to reconcile intercompany balances and transactions directly with one another.
• Profitability and cost management – Identify the causes of underperformance, and take action to reduce costs and optimize profitability.
• Spend performance management – Maximize cost savings and reduce supplier risk by gaining continuous visibility into company-wide spending patterns.
• Supply chain performance management – Measurably improve supply chain effectiveness by focusing on actionable, operational process metrics.
• Sales and operations planning – Develop synchronized demand and supply plans that are feasible and aligned with your company's financial goals.