Martin Butler is well respected in 'Business Intelligence' industry circles and his latest report 'The Business Value of Enterprise Performance Management' compliments his earlier report 'The Business Value of Business Intelligence' extremely well.

Typically senior managers in most companies are only interested in high level information and end results rather than getting involved in disseminating individual transactions or processes. Some data can be difficult to access, bring together or create in report format which is where Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) becomes a valuable solution. It provides easy access to data together with comprehensive yet easy to use, flexible functionality. This enables management to plan, manage and monitor the performance of their organisation and measure results against their Key Performance Indicators.

The ElegantJ BI (EPM) system brings together all the components of a companies activities including Finance (cash flow and sales performance), Customer facing and Internal processes including Human Resources to create a 'Balanced Scorecard'. This in turn enables departments to implement their strategy to achieve their overall corporate objectives. The Balanced Scorecard has a rich reporting functionality, has a colour coded alert mechanism and a 'drill down' process to identify critical issues.

Integrating EPM with Business Intelligence enables strategic decisions to be made and monitored effectively. It can be adapted to both large corporate companies or Small and Medium Enterprise (SME's) from any industry sector.