Business Intelligence and Business Performance Management: A Marriage Made in Heaven?

In the past few years, two major technologies – business intelligence (BI) and business performance management (BPM) – have grown closer and closer together. In fact, some people think they are now one and the same, which they are not.  They are, however, very intertwined and share a synergistic relationship. Business intelligence provides tools essential to the delivery of business performance management applications. BPM, in turn, helps drive adoption of business intelligence by tying it to a strategic business initiative. Like most relationships, this one is not in balance. While BPM requires business intelligence to achieve its goals, the reverse is not true. To put it another way, BI can address the requirements of many business applications and does not truly need BPM to be successful. BPM, on the other hand, could not exist without taking advantage of BI capabilities. BPM is business intelligence with domain expertise added (and quite a bit of application code).

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