For details about the benefits and capabilities of SAP solutions for performance management, check out the following information:

Solution Briefs

• "Corporate Performance Management" (PDF, 97 KB) – Read how SAP solutions for performance management help you improve corporate performance by aligning strategy with the actions required to achieve it. You can consolidate financial and non-financial information to gain insight into the factors that drive business success.
• "Delivering On Corporate Strategy With Enterprise-Wide Alignment" (PDF, 110 KB) – Discover how many companies today are succeeding in aligning resources quickly to carry out corporate strategy – even where change is constant – with SAP solutions. The solution is to communicate plans clearly, translate them into priorities and tasks, and rapidly monitor and report on progress.
• "Efficient Business Planning and Consolidation" (PDF, 230 KB) – Learn how CFOs are increasingly acting as strategic advisors to the business – and doing a better job of it with accurate financial data, integrated planning tools, and predictive analysis. SAP software helps boost overall corporate performance with integrated planning and consolidation applications that empower users.
• "Enhance Your Cost Control and Profitability" (PDF, 183 KB) – Discover how the SAP Business Profitability Management application by Acorn can help you identify and analyze profit-making activities by dimensions such as customers, products, channels, segments, and business units. Gain insight into business costs, margins, and operations so you can increase total business profitability.

Thought Leadership

• "Managing Performance" (PDF, 410 KB) – Discover how to manage corporate performance and compete in a fast-paced market with disparate information silos across an enterprise. SAP software provides a combination of financial and analytic solutions, giving you the comprehensive, up-to-date data you need.

Analyst Reports and Related Information

• "Not Small Change: World-Class Financial Automation Delivers Dramatic Benefits" (PDF, 106 KB) – Read this white paper by BusinessWeek and SAP, which discusses how replacing manual and disjointed financial processes with an enterprisewide system cuts costs and improves operational performance. Automated financial value chains can reduce costs by up to 45 percent and improve productivity by up to 50 percent. BusinessWeek (2007).