Chapter 9. Corporate Performance Management (CPM) and the Executive View of Business Intelligence

I wanted to keep this book as timely and undated as possible, but given the current marketplace and latest wave of BI technologies, I feel this is one subject that must be addressed. The BI marketplace is abuzz with discussions about the impact Corporate Performance Management (CPM) may have on any enterprise. I consider it the most rational and valuable approach to what we once thought of as Executive Information System (EIS) solutions. According to some of the industry pundits, nearly half of all large corporations will have implemented a CPM framework by 2005.

What makes CPM different from its predecessors? To begin with, the scope of users that ...

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