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Close the Gap Between Strategy and Execution: Using SAP Services to Optimize Business Performance

Overview The challenge was to align the performance management approach with overall corporate strategy, to improve focus on organizational drivers and priorities, to identify the most important metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and to improve decision making by aligning business objectives with KPIs. The SAP Services organization offers a comprehensive portfolio of service offerings that helps to implement, deploy, and optimize SAP BusinessObjects applications.

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Publisher	SAP	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2009
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing

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