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AccelTeam
Fostering Corporate Performance Management with Microsoft Office 2007
A Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solution helps organizations achieve superior business performance. Leverage on Executive Dashboard, Scorecard and Business Intelligence to enable a closed-loop process to translate the strategies into actionable actions and ultimately, measurable business results. Start with understanding where the organization is today, where it wants to go to, what targets should be set, and how resources are aligned to achieve corporate objectives.
By tapping into the potential of Microsoft Office 2007, Accelteam has used its CPM methodologies to develop a framework aimed at fostering Performance Management culture in organizations. Aligned to planned business goals, the CPM system will be a monitor to the execution of the strategy by highlighting exceptions, and providing insights to performance causes and effects. Therefore, decision-making alternatives and initiatives can be evaluated properly to close the loop of continuous performance improvement. This will help increase an organization’s visibility and control of their business operations as well as strategic directions.

Mesiniaga
Stop Doing Business As Usual, Do Business the Business Intelligent Way
Do you know how well you or your organization is performing? Are slow-turnaround times hindering you from getting to relevant information required for prompt decision making? Let us show you how our Business Intelligence Solution can streamline the delivery of the relevant information you require to enable and empower you to gain better insights into your operations. Through the use of the new features and functionalities of the Microsoft Office 2007 suite of products, Microsoft Business Scorecard Manager and SQL Server 2005, we will demonstrate how our integrated solution can provide you with a better and more efficient environment to effectively manage your area of responsibility and facilitate the process of making better, more effective and precise decisions. Some of the features we will be showcasing are the use of Dashboards displaying your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and the enhanced Visualization capabilities in Excel 2007 to allow you to easily and quickly comprehend the data being analyzed.

AtQuest
Connecting Islands of Information: Getting the Right Information
The recent business challenge has evolved from not getting information to information overload. Users often have to find their way through a forest of information before reaching to what they really need or what is useful for them. Over time, as information is stored in various locations; it has become quite a struggle to put all the information from these disparate locations together and present a meaningful report to the end user.
The first part of the scenario will focus on finding and getting the right information. It demonstrates a user searching for a subject matter expert within the company based on a certain criteria; access to the expert profile, as well as paper/document published by this expert.
The scenario will then proceed to demonstrate capabilities in presenting the right information to the users, where Management-level personnel are furbished with relevant reports with drill-in to assist them in decision-making. Reports such as team performance KPI, Market Analysis, Customer Feedback are harvested based on data stored in various applications, providing the management an overall perspective of the company’s state.

Avanade
“Give Data Some Meaning; Business Intelligence Overview and Best Practices”
Embarking on a business intelligence initiative is not just about enabling technology. The importance of putting the right process and implementation cycles in place is key to maximizing business value that can be achieved with the use of technology. With Office System 2007, Microsoft is promoting a paradigm shift which focuses on enabling an effective workforce rather than pure technology play. It is therefore imperative that one understands the gaps that exist in a BI implementation, and learn how to alleviate these gaps by understanding what it takes to successfully deliver meaningful data within your organization.