Business Modelling Associates Resource Centre
Discover more about the advantages of doing business with Business Modeling Associates. Additionally, learn about the specific features and benefits of our integrated business planning (IBP) solutions.
White Papers
- Breakthrough Performance Improvement (241.07kB)
"River Logic's Enterprise Optimizer® (EO) technology delivers unique and breakthrough market cap improvement insights for consultants and their clients. EO creates a unified model of a business, detailing rationale for the best strategic, tactical and operational decisions that optimize financial performance. EO provides a platform to codify proprietary insights. Consultants seeking better ways to serve their clients and leverage their IP should embrace EO." - Delivering Unprecedented Shareholder Value with Holistic Enterprise Modeling Technology (3.27MB)
Optimizing business decisions and plans requires the ability to dynamically integrate with financial and opera tional plans that have a foundation with an enterprise model and metrics that can be used consistently across the management in an enterprise. RiverLogic has helped organizations move beyond silos of systems and spreadsheets to a consistent and more accurate way of mana ging performance of business - Enterprise Planning & Optimization (239.95kB)
Most companies today operate with standard costing systems, using spreadsheets to evaluate strategic alternatives and make financial planning decisions. Increased complexity of operations, faster market changes and stronger competition are forcing companies across a variety of industries to re-evaluate these systems. The objectives are to improve their planning and decision-making, and to align execution with strategy. - Fundamentals of Profit Improvement (157.08kB)
Every organization is obligated to seek answers to the question, "How can the organization maximize the value we generate for our stakeholders?" The most compelling answer, the one that is driving business today, comes from antiquity: "by leveraging knowledge." - Integrated Business Planning (206.45kB)
Strategy has become one of the most widely used, and misused, terms in business. Some leaders believe that strategy is the only way to compete in today's complex and fluid business environment; while others recognize the value of strategy but think strategic planning is dead. - Integrating Enterprise Optimizer with PerformancePoint Server 2007 (182.92kB)
River Logic's Enterprise Optimizer® (EO) combined with Microsoft PerformancePoint Server® (PPS) 2007 provides true Integrated Business Planning. Managers using EO have greater insights and make better decisions by understanding which activities and interactions drive financial performance. Additionally, PPS and EO enable users to maximize their existing Business Intelligence by providing strategy formulation, financial planning, and budgeting and forecasting, in a holistic planning and modeling system. - Palladium Executing Strategy (1.66MB)
The Balanced Scorecard system (BSC), developed by Drs. Robert Kaplan and David Norton over the last 20 years, is the first comprehensive system developed to help senior management improve their companys execution of strategy. - Performance - Based Planning (981.14kB)
Corporate performance improves exponentially when the best-of-the-best team-up. And Microsoft® and River Logic have done just that - Teamed-up to deliver the world's most powerful and advanced performance management solution. - Plans are Nothing. Planning is Everything (128.19kB)
Decades of development in managerial accounting, operations research, raw computing power, software development, process modeling, data management, and graphics are combining in ways that are rapidly altering the world of integrated decision making. We are on the cusp of a revolution. - Redefining the Tools of Engagement (670.05kB)
In the consultant's world the name of the game is engagement. Or to be more specific, client engagement. It's a simple formula, one that is typical of any service related organization. - Strategic Enterprise Optimization in the Forest Products Industry (1.31MB)
During my early years in Artificial Intelligence and Management Science research, we discovered that even the most advanced decision support technologies failed to consider both process and financial constraints simultaneously. - Supply Chain Management (816.7kB)
Referencing acquisitions synergies and the effects of divestitures to pricing optimization to boost market share, and sloped demand and supply curves driven by the volume, cost, or price-and actual resulting revenue margins, this VP of Business Development and Optimization of a worldwide leader in CPG says, "(Enterprise Optimizer (EO))...the most advanced version of optimization in a business context that I've ever seen. We have changed multiple million-dollar decisions based on EO. I'd be surprised if we haven't already saved $100 million dollars." - The Advanced M&A Approach (242.46kB)
But I can tell you as a former CEO, this is the first position that should latch onto this software because it's miraculous in its ability to view all dimensions pre and post-merger and provide a roadmap for realizing the synergies expected in the acquisition. - The Power of Integrated Decision Making (111.36kB)
More so than ever, today's enterprises are complex organizations with many interacting, interdependent parts. Without technological assistance, it's virtually impossible to anticipate the consequences any individual decision will have throughout an entire enterprise. - Turning Decisions into Dollars (787.47kB)
SCM, SCP, SCE, MES, ERP, BI, and BPM* certainly have a common link, but more importantly they share a critical disconnect - A missing link that causes these systems to under deliver.
