Enterprise Performance Management: Services Overview

Accenture believes that an integrated approach to performance management, aligned to the corporate strategy, can drive sustainable high performance by focusing on, and managing, current and future value.

Traditional performance management systems focus on lagging indictors, current value and tangible assets. Many executives are dissatisfied with this approach, as it does not reinforce strategy or drive the creation of value. Managing for shareholder value is always a difficult combination of managing today's performance vs. tomorrow's growth. This is where traditional measures of financial performance fall short of helping management teams predict and make decisions around managing future value.

Accenture's Enterprise Performance Management service line focuses on helping clients address this dilemma. We believe that performance management capabilities should focus on current and future value of all assets, including intangibles, employing the use of an integrated solution.

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Accenture helps CFOs identify value-creation opportunities within and outside their organizations by transforming their performance management capabilities. Our performance management services help clients align their investments and metrics to desired value outcomes. The result is a highly efficient and effective performance management framework that drives bottom-line results.

Today's global business environment demands that senior executives investigate and adopt new ways of thinking. Accenture's research into High Performance Businesses helps to identify the key business practices that drive sustained performance leadership, with the intention of helping clients outperform their competitors.

We can help create and scale an integrated enterprise performance management capability using a tailored approach. We focus on identifying and sustaining value, using a flexible methodology. This methodology tightly aligns internal financial performance measures with the corporate strategy.

Our performance management capabilities create value by improving our clients' ability to:

• Link metrics to the corporate strategy
• Allocate resources more effectively
• Manage capital allocation
• Easily access timely, high-quality information
• Plan and forecast future results
• Make better decisions

Accenture has the resources to help you on your journey to high performance. Our experienced practitioners span the globe. Our range of services and proprietary methodologies and applications use all our experiences and skills to reduce business risk and maximize value for our clients across all industry sectors.

Accenture's Enterprise Performance Management services include:

Shareholder Value Analysis
Using proprietary techniques, Accenture can assess company current and future value relative to benchmarks and competitors, providing facts and insights for planning, target setting and capital allocation.

Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting
Accenture's methods, tools and deep skills allow us to work with organizations to develop driver-based planning models, improving both the efficiency and effectiveness of critical planning, budgeting and forecasting activities.

Metrics Reporting & Analysis
Accenture helps management teams focus on enterprise performance, using asset-led solutions to help organizations design and build scorecards, dashboards, analytic applications and robust reporting capabilities.

Enabling Technologies for Enterprise Performance Management
With Accenture's innovative solutions and key alliances, companies can achieve significant benefits by enhancing their business capabilities, including: planning, budgeting and forecasting; shareholder value analysis; and metrics reporting and analysis. Accenture has relationships with leading enterprise performance management vendors, including Hyperion, Cognos, Business Objects, OutlookSoft, SAS, SAP, Oracle and Microsoft.

Enterprise Performance Management Outsourcing
Accenture can help clients scale their performance management capabilities and optimize the efficiency of their financial planning and analysis capabilities. We provide enterprise performance management expertise as well as greater levels of operational control when clients outsource their EPM activities to us.