Enterprise Performance Management - Data is First Priority

If you are SAP Service partner and looking forward for new business avenues with growth trajectory in 2012 - here are some convincing pointers coming out from SAP from their financial results outlook and all the buzz around just concluded SAP FKOM in New Orleans and Milan. Lets look at the highlights of 2011 financial results and outlook provided - ( http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-25/sap-forecasts-higher-profit-sales-this-year-on-analytics-mobile-software.html ) 1. Record Software Revenue 2. Exceeding Revenue Guidance 3.  Exceeding Operating Profit Guidance 4. S trong Margin Growth 5. Exceeding Company Expectations for SAP HANA and Mobile In general - SAP will ride heavily on 5 things in next 2 years to reach to that critical goal  of 320 Million euros from HANA only and 2015 goal of 20 Billion euro company. HANA Cloud Mobility Sustainability Analytics If you are already in atleast one of these - lot of opportunities to grow - if you are not - still time to

In today's competitive business environment (as if it was less competitive at some point ), the most important thing is analytics. Analytics because it gives some kind of actionable intelligence. This intelligence when implemented correctly through multiple actions inside organizational business units provides a predictibility - which directly business bottomlines. SAP is having this complete solution suite - Enterprise Performance Management - which includes different solutions for different problems. The end goal for each of these is same - to gain some predictability and enhance performance of the function and then collectively enhance performance of the organization as a whole. Lets look at these different solutions - 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