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About BI and BPM Software

The terms business intelligence (BI) and business performance management (BPM) are heard time and again, but what do they really mean for businesses?

BI and BPM refer to the concept of using technology to

Identify sales trends to develop sales strategies and to manage future sales
Manage employee performance
Identify quality issues on the shop floor
Optimize business processes through the use of technology
Forecast, budget, and plan within a process-centric environment
Allow C-level executives the ability to monitor the organization's performance regularly and centrally throughout the day

What's the Difference between BI software and BPM software?

Although there is crossover in the functionality and use of BI and business performance management solutions, there are certain areas of differentiation that seem to be consistent across the industry.

Business Intelligence software	Business Performance Management software
Appeals to operations users and line-of-business (LOB) managers	Appeals to financial applications users
Embeds metrics analysis within internal processes to help users make timely business decisions, and to enable strategic or tactical planning	Focuses on defined metrics to help users improve processes, and manage and increase performance
Provides data needed to answer essential business issues and to plan and act based on the analysis of business problems	Uses scorecarding and dashboarding to measure organizational metrics and to help organizations manage performance

How Can BI and BPM Benefit Small to Medium Businesses?

What's the hottest type of software in the small to medium business (SMB) market? A recent Gartner survey of a thousand chief information officers (CIOs) of midsized firms showed that the number one software solution they planned to purchase in the coming year was business intelligence (BI).

So what can BI and BPM do for your company? hat can BI and BPM do for your company?

BI and BPM can help you compete more effectively with your bigger competitors by enabling you to make better and faster decisions. It can extend and strengthen the functionality of your existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) systems. It can help put the past into useful perspective while allowing you to effectively plan for the future. It can help make sense of all the disparate data that flows through your organization, so that your senior executives have the right information at the right time to grow the business and increase the bottom line.

About TEC software selection services

TEC is the leading resource that IT decision makers worldwide trust to rapidly and impartially evaluate, compare, and select enterprise software. Our online research portal hosts an extensive library of IT-related articles, software reviews, white papers, webcasts, podcasts, and reports by our analysts. It also offers direct access to our software evaluation centers loaded with up-to-date criteria and covering over 1000 leading vendor solutions. By leveraging our powerful analysis engine to scan all the solutions listed in our evaluation centers, clients can automatically generate side-by-side comparison reports by simply inputting their choice of vendors. For organizations requiring best practice assistance, TEC offers a full range of project management services.

Software categories include: ERP, SCM, WMS, TMS, CRM, SFA, BI, BPM, HR, HCM, Financial, Accounting, PLM, PPM, PIM, MRO, CC&B, Incentive Compensation, and many more categories and sub-categories.

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About Technology Evaluation Centers Inc.

Established in 1993, Technology Evaluation Centers, Inc. (TEC) is the first web-native technology research enterprise. TEC provides decision support systems (DSS) that enable stakeholders to objectively identify the software products that best fit their company's unique business and systems requirements, and that contribute most effectively to superior business performance.