Corporate Performance Management
Leading companies around the world are choosing 'Corporate Performance Management (CPM)' Solutions for business intelligence and financial performance management. They gain integrated reports, plans and scorecards to manage performance better. More than ever, companies are challenging their CFOs to move beyond traditional administrative functions and take a leadership role in driving strategy and improving business performance.
Why? Because leaders who understand what's driving financial performance at any point in time can make more calculated decisions about how best to marshal their resources. With the right data, performance management tools, and resources, they can improve operational efficiency, ensure regulatory and statutory compliance, and ultimately control performance for maximized profitability.
Merino as a true Partner-2-Progress to you is committed to help you achieve successful implementation and deployment of Corporate Performance Management software solution to maximize business benefits. As a Partner-2-Progress we can help you mitigate risk, maximize ROI, and implement a Performance Management solution on-time, on-budget, and within scope.
Within CPM, MSL has expertise to deliver Business Analytics (Business Intelligence and Reporting) and Business Applications (Forecasting, Planning, Budgeting, Consolidation and Score carding)
Services Offering
To deliver on our commitment, MSL has developed a framework of services that covers the entire lifecycle of a project-from solution planning and implementation through business improvement. It provides a flexible range of services designed to help you make the most of your investment. Following are the services offered by MSL:
- Implementation Services: Using the defined implementation Methodology we manage or co-manage with you the complete software development lifecycle. The comprehensive service can cover everything from analysis to deployment and operation. We become an integral part of your team, and share accountability for quality of the deliverables and project success-whether it's a single department project or a complex enterprise deployment. This can include first-time implementations of CPM or migration projects. These services can also leverage our offshore capabilities.
- Migration and Conversion Assessment: MSL helps you determine the requirements of your migration and conversion projects. We first conduct a rapid audit to assess your existing infrastructure, architecture, performance, and capacity. We then deliver a project plan for the migration or conversion process-to make the best use of existing resources, mitigate risk, and ensure successful results.
- Professional Services: MSL can provide CPM expertise at critical points of the implementation. They work by allowing you to choose specific services, or work packages, as required, to complement your existing capabilities and project requirements.
- Off Shore Services: By providing a combination of onshore and offshore consulting services, MSL delivers a high quality offering with lower blended hourly cost: which saves your money. You can meet the development/ deployment requirements in the most cost-effective manner possible. Yet a blended service doesn't mean inconsistent delivery. While it combines onshore and offshore expertise, the process is virtually continuous. MSL owns the end-to-end delivery and is the single point of contact-ensuring high quality standards are met. Information flows through the MSL project manager or project leader seamlessly.
Methodology
MSL Implementation Methodology for Corporate Performance Management solutions is designed to ensure successful and repeatable CPM deployments. It is a step-by-step guide used by MSL to efficiently and successfully implement CPM solutions.
Phases and Deliverables
MSL follows five fully defined phases. Each phase is overseen by a project management function that ensures consistent and coordinated communication and collaboration.
Analyze
Define what the solution needs to accomplish, both in terms of features and non-functional attributes (performance, usability, etc.) Obtain agreement between all parties about these requirements.
Design
Define all solution components and their dependencies Identify resources Install a development environment
Build
Iterative development cycle based on Multi-environment testing and validation plan on the methodology
Deploy
Create a plan to run and maintain the solution Establish a support schedule Migrate solution to production environment Configure as necessary for a successful deployment (security, scheduling, and third party applications) Communicate the deployment to the business user audience
Operate
Maintenance checkpoints after roll out to facilitate a successful use of the system Back up and data restoration Managing problems, performing periodic cleanup, performing fine tuning Monitoring redeploying systems as necessary
Objectives
- Minimizes risk: using proven practices and the widely accepted Model
- Scalable, enterprise-ready: expand your user base from tens to tens of thousands
- Comprehensive: ongoing monitoring and performance tuning
- Drives customer success: deliver project success from the initial deployment and beyond
MSL has expertise of following Corporate Performance Management Solutions to service its customers:
- IBM COGNOS
- Infor Performance Management