Small Companies Have Big Aspirations
There is often a stigma that large companies are the ones that have deep enough pockets to implement enterprise-scale financial applications.Truth is, the need to better plan, budget, and forecast is...
View ArticleIt is Time to Rethink Your Performance Reviews
Employee recognition is one of the most powerful tools available to organizations today. It may seem basic…when employees feel appreciated, they will perform better. Yet, few organizations are...
View ArticleAdaptive Planning Acquires myDIALS to Make Business Intelligence Easy
Today, Adaptive Planning, a provider of on-demand budgeting, forecasting, and reporting software, announced that it has acquired myDIALS, a provider of cloud-based data visualization solutions. This...
View ArticleKenexa: Paving the Way for a “Smarter Workforce”
With over 8,900 customers in over 21 countries, Kenexa has demonstrated product leadership in software, significant client wins (Disney, Walmart, Darden – just to name a few) and substantial growth...
View ArticleAnnouncing Aberdeen’s 2013 Performance Management Survey
This week, Aberdeen Group will launch the 2013 Performance Management survey.Organizations today must jump through a myriad of hoops as they strive to achieve sustained success in volatile markets....
View ArticleNew Aberdeen Study on Performance Management
You may be familiar with the financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting research that I produce yearly. If you aren’t, here are links to some of those reports from this year: Improving S&OP...
View ArticleInfor Expands Its HCM Suite to Include Learning
Over the past few years, the HCM technology space has been defined by market consolidation as solution providers look to expand their product offering and global footprint. Surprisingly, few providers...
View ArticleWhy Performance Management? It’s the Apps Stupid!
As an analyst focused on performance management and optimization technologies, I hear a lot of reasons for why businesses should implement these technologies. They need to improve their network and...
View ArticleSpinning a High Performance Web
The history of application performance management (APM) starts with the World Wide Web. While there were some forms of optimization, testing and acceleration in the pre-Web days, for the most part, APM...
View ArticleGiving your Networks the Third-Degree
Back when I used to work in a product testing lab, one of my favorite things to do was to fire up a piece of network testing hardware and put a network under extreme traffic conditions. I always felt a...
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Going Beyond Spreadsheets for Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting: Why?
In my recent Enterprise Performance Management and Financial Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting Study I asked survey takers to identify the challenges that they have faced with spreadsheets (Figure...
View ArticleThe Future of HCM Is in Your Hands
We’ve all heard a lot of rhetoric lately about being in the age of the candidate, or the age of the employee. In many ways, we are. Coupled with the recent advances in HR tech, it’s truly an exciting...
View ArticleIs Your Company’s Website Performance a Billboard for the Competition?
We’ve talked about how slow is essentially the new “downtime” when it comes to your company’s web presence. In other words, if your site takes longer than just a few seconds to load, it may as well be...
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DNS Management: New Challenges, New Choices
Which would you rather remember: 93.184.216.34 or example.com? Paul Mockapetris invented DNS in 1983 so that we wouldn’t have to memorize scores of random number sets to navigate the Internet. In the...
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TechPro Featured Chapter Excerpt: ‘High-Performance IT Services’
TechPro is happy to present an exclusive, new 22-page chapter excerpt from a frequent contributor to Aberdeen Essentials, Dr. Terry Critchley. Critchley’s new book is entitled High-Performance IT...
View ArticleStat of the Week: The Top Challenges to IT Ops
In this new Stat of the Week, IT Ops is stressing hard. Do any of these challenges resonate with your organization? Be sure to check out the full, related report: What You Can’t See Can Hurt You:...
View ArticleClouds Are in the Forecast for Network Management
Cloud computing has taken over many areas of the data center, from servers, to applications and storage, to backup. But one data center technology that has, so far, resisted the appeal of the cloud is...
View Article[Webinar] Your Website Performance Sucks: Here’s How to Improve It
We’ve previously mentioned that in the online world for a company’s Internet presence, a site taking longer than three seconds to load may as well be down (AKA dead to your users). The problem for a...
View ArticleStat of the Week: Top Challenges to Network Performance
For more information, check out the related (and free!) Aberdeen Group report: Managing Application Performance in a Virtualized World. The post Stat of the Week: Top Challenges to Network Performance...
View ArticleThe Role of Engagement in Performance Management
The core of a company is not its mission or even its offerings, but its workforce. Employees of all roles and skill levels are the ones who make or break the success of the business. Knowing that...
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