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Ventana Research Unveils 2015 Value Index for Business Planning

新研究提供了深入的,基于研究的供应商和产品评估,以帮助评估现有和选择新软件

Bend, OR /Oct 02, 2015 / byVentana Research

BEND, OR, October 2, 2015 – Ventana Research today released its 2015 Value Index for Business Planning, the first and only quantified research evaluating business planning software vendors and their products. Using this new Value Index, business and IT organizations will be able to evaluate business planning technologies and examine software vendors’ offerings, enabling buyers to assess product offerings based on a deeper understanding of how the technology can address their business requirements.
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This Value Index is designed to help organizations support a range of business planning needs that encompasses all of the forward-looking activities in which companies routinely engage. Using this Value Index, business and IT organizations – especially those in business leadership, and the supporting operations and analysts – will be able to evaluate business planning software and examine vendors’ offerings in the context of their own business, process, information and technology requirements.

索引产品o Ventana研究的价值f more than two decades of experience in and knowledge of the market and of in-depth analyses of technology suppliers' products and the buying support those suppliers offer. The Value Index for Business Planning is based on a comprehensive examination of vendors’ products and their ability to support the full span of processes and methodologies used in business planning. It examines vendors’ products in seven evaluation categories – five that evaluate the products’ ability to support the evolving business processes associated with planning across line of business and two that address the customer assurance categories of vendor validation and total cost of ownership/return on investment. It offers a guide to making informed investments, which can maximize an organization’s ability to use these tools to gain insights to support business decision-making and help to gain competitive advantage.

Ventana研究定义了业务规划processes that encompasses all of the forward-looking activities in which companies routinely engage, such as sales, operations, and workforce planning, as well as budgeting. It also serves as a discussion about objectives and the resources and tactics needed to achieve them. Budgeting is a type of planning that is financially focused. Its essential purpose is to impose controls designed to prevent a company from failing. So while planning and budgeting are similar, they have distinctly different aims. This Value Index assesses applications that are designed to support general purpose business and financial planning rather than specific functional planning tools.

“The lack of substantive research that provides guidance and best practices in using business planning has hampered business in being effective in the adoption of software that can improve the efficiency and time spent in this essential business process.,” said Robert Kugel, SVP and research director of Ventana Research. “This Value Index research provides the level of detail required to assess existing business planning software and processes using a balanced set of real world-based evaluation criteria. Unlike other analyst firms’ futuristic and immaterial ratings that look minimally at the products’ and technologies’ fit for business and processes, we are able to provide no-nonsense guidance that is immediately applicable to every organization needs.”

“Each Value Index is the result of a detailed evaluation of the suitability-to-task of each offering’s capabilities as well as the product’s usability, manageability, reliability and adaptability. These aspects of the evaluation are designed to mirror how organizations conduct RFIs and RFPs; they are unique to the Value Index report and are not found in any depth in other analyst firms’ ratings, which often include only limited, if any, evaluation of actual products. Unlike the Ventana Research Value Index, those reports are based on customer lists and revenue of the vendors being evaluated. In contrast, this independently produced, research-based Value Index will help organizations confidently assess software and also develop the proper RFI/RFP to support a well-designed and efficient selection process.

As part of its evaluation, the Value Index also assesses the effectiveness of each vendor’s support for the buying process and customer assurance. It gauges the value offered by a vendor and its products and presents the results in a clear and accessible graphic representation of a thermometer and in a precise numerical index. Technology vendors earning the highest Hot and Warm vendor classifications are those that Ventana Research has concluded are most or more able to deliver value to buyers based on a thorough evaluation and audit – that is, based on research and verifiable facts. The Value Index is not just a selection of “cool” products; rather than evaluating a vendor primarily on its vision or market execution, the Index provides specific numerical ratings, both overall and for each of the seven components of the Value Index, for technology buyers to consider. Organizations can use the Value Index as a guide to assess existing technology providers and determine if their provider best meets their needs today and in the future.

“规划是每个组织在每个业务领域的每个组织中都会进行一个细节或另一个级别的重要过程,Ventana Research设计了价值指数,以提供平衡的供应商和产品的观点,这些供应商和产品植根于对商业驱动因素和商业驱动因素的理解需求。” Ventana Research首席执行官兼首席研究官Mark Smith说。“它不仅仅是对产品客户的功能审查和愿景,这只是评估供应商和产品市场时应采取的措施的一小部分。其他分析师公司的这种有限的方法通过用不正确且有限的信息来扭曲成功的业务需要成功的哪些信息来增加选择和使用错误的技术的风险。”亚搏彩票手机版免费下载

使用专用业务计划软件的好处可能很重要。Ventana Research的新基准研究发现,使用专门的计划应用程序的公司能够准确估计一个计划对其他计划的影响是使用电子表格的两倍(26%比13%)。我们的分析发现了一家公司的效率如何管理其计划流程:85%的管理计划的人说,他们花了适当的时间在上面,而有46%的人可以充分地管理计划。使用业务计划软件并使用该价值索引可以支持效率,并以更快,更简单的方式实现所需的结果。

该新价值指数是一项完全独立的,基于研究的事业。它既不受到技术供应商的赞助也没有影响,也仅是为了追求Ventana Research的使命,以通过基准评估,研讨会和咨询服务为业务提供价值。Ventana Research的目标是帮助组织最佳效率,以便将技术投资用于企业及IT。要了解更多信息并查看供应商如何专门排名,请下载2015年业务计划价值指数的免费执行摘要,请访问http://www.ventanaresearch.com/BPValueIndex/

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