Win A Kindle Fire at COLLABORATE 13 in Denver!

MindStream Analytics is inviting attendees to pre-register with MindStream to enter into the free giveaway for a Kindle Fire at the COLLABORATE 13 - OAUG Forum conference in Denver, Colorado from April 7 - 11th, 2013.

To pre-register with MindStream to enter the Kindle Fire giveaway, click here!

As an educational conference, COLLABORATE 13 helps users of the full family of Oracle business applications and database software gain greater value from their Oracle investments. Created by and for customers, COLLABORATE 13 offers an expert blend of customer-to-customer interaction and insights from technology visionaries and Oracle strategists. Expand your network of contacts by interacting with Oracle customers, solutions providers, consultants, developers and representatives from Oracle Corporation at COLLABORATE 13.

MindStream is also presenting at COLLABORATE 13. Check out the agenda below and be sure to sign up for these great training sessions:

1. Tuesday, April 9th @ 10:45 am: Tips, Tricks & the Things Everyone Tells You Can't Do With Financial Reports - Hyperion EPM (Session ID 11666)
2. Wednesday, April 10th @ 1:00 pm: How Visa Handles Change Management for Hyperion Planning - Hyperion EPM (Session ID 11712)

For other speakers and overall agenda of COLLABORATE 13, please visit www.collaborate.oaug.org.

How to Select & Implement Enterprise Performance Management Software

In this video from CFO Rising East 2013, Senior Partner Alexander Ladd of Boston-based consultancy MindStream Analytics gives tips on how technology buyers can choose the right enterprise performance management system for their company, and why it's important to have a senior executive on the implementation team.

Tips & Tricks on How to Get More Out of Essbase - LIVE Webinar!

MindStream Analytics is hosting a LIVE webinar on "Tips & Tricks on How to Get More Out of Essbase" this Friday!

Register for webinar HERE!

This session will cover a wide range of performance tuning options as well as design tweaks that will enable the attendees to increase the performance of their Essbase Databases.  From Calc Script tricks to Essbase config setting to new options available in 11.1.2 there are many options to increase performance.

When: Friday, March 29, 2013
Time: Noon - 1 pm EST
Where: GoToWebinar

Seats are limited!

Register for webinar HERE!

COLLABORATE 13 - OAUG Forum in Denver!

ABOUT
The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG), the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) and Quest International Users Group (Quest), present COLLABORATE 13: Technology and Applications Forum for the Oracle Community.

As an educational conference, COLLABORATE 13 helps users of the full family of Oracle business applications and database software gain greater value from their Oracle investments. Created by and for customers, COLLABORATE 13 offers an expert blend of customer-to-customer interaction and insights from technology visionaries and Oracle strategists. Expand your network of contacts by interacting with Oracle customers, solutions providers, consultants, developers and representatives from Oracle Corporation at COLLABORATE 13.

WHY JOIN?
By joining COLLABORATE 13, attendees can enjoy the educational offerings of all three organizations to obtain the latest education on Oracle applications and database technology. Participants can choose to attend one organization’s educational sessions or benefit from other tracks being offered by the other organizations and meet new professional contacts.

WHEN: April 7-11th, 2013
WHERE: Colorado Convention Center - Denver, Colorado
REGISTRATION: http://collaborate.oaug.org

For more information on MindStream Analytics, visit www.mindstreamanalytics.com.

What is Enterprise Performance Management?

Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is an emerging management discipline that focuses on supporting integrated management process on a strategic, financial, and operational level enabling organizations to invest in management excellence.

These management processes include strategic ones such as gain-to-sustain, investigate-to-invest, and design-to-decide as well as tactical and operational management processes like plan-to-act, analyze-to-adjust, and record-to-report. EPM creates a competitive advantage for those organizations that adopt it by enabling them to reach a state of (what we call) "management excellence." Companies that achieve "management excellence" anticipate and respond to changing business conditions faster and with more insight than their peers, improving their strategic agility to act on those insights, and improving alignment and collaboration between individual business units and external stakeholders.

EPM must help connect all the performance management processes enterprise-wide. It is no longer solely to connect the processes within an organization because value chains often cross organizational borders and involve multiple stakeholders.

Here are some of the benefits to adopting EPM:

• Delivers targeted best practices and methodologies into the hands of business users where they can be most effectively employed
• Creates a collaborative, real-time management environment in which managers, staff, partners, customers, and suppliers can interact regardless of their position in the supply chain
• Enables parts of the business to focus on the same corporate goals and understand how their choices, when combined with those of other business units, will improve the achievement of those goals
• Empowers users with the simulation, calculation, and visualization tools that will enable them to improve their performance ability
• Provides better communication functions to encourage collaboration and networking among teams

For more information on EPM, please visit http://www.mindstreamanalytics.com/whitepapers.html.