Ventana Research

Ventana Research is the preeminent research and advisory services firm in the Business Performance Management market. With the unique research framework covering both the technology and business aspects of performance management, Ventana Research helps decision-makers throughout the organization understand each other's requirements, align goals and objectives and optimize business processes with existing and new technology investments.

Ventana Research covers the business processes of customer relationships, supply chain, financials, operations, and workforce performance management. The technology coverage covers applications, tools, platforms and technologies from existing technology markets including analytics, business intelligence, business process management, data warehousing, enterprise applications, enterprise portals and knowledge management.

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 Driving Information Management for Ultimate Business Value: Conventional Wisdom May Not Deliver for Business  Volume 5, July 26, 2003
Facilitating timely information in the right context for users in is the largest challenge companies trying to improve overall business performance face. At the core of this challenge is having an information management architecture that can adapt and deliver on the needs of business today and in the future. While seemingly simple in concept, this is one of the CIO’s biggest concerns today. Even business management knows the innate limitations of their information architecture and its ability to deliver on business requirements. To begin to address this issue, companies must abandon conventional wisdom and their historical data-centric approach and adopt a user-and-information-requirements approach to enable Performance Management.
Mark Smith, Ventana Research
Ascet Volume 5, July 26, 2003

 Ascential Selected by PeopleSoft for Data Integration: Opportunity for Ascential and Challenges for PeopleSoft Customers  Volume 5, July 26, 2003
PeopleSoft has signed an agreement to OEM Ascential Software’s DataStage and MetaStage as the data integration core of its PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solution, replacing its previous agreement with Informatica. The deal leverages Ascential’s growing market presence and meets PeopleSoft’s current enterprise data integration requirements based on its customers’ needs. Ventana Research recommends that existing PeopleSoft customers using Informatica’s OEM’ed PowerMart, cautiously assess the migration challenges with business requirements in mind. Depending on your organization’s data integration architecture, conversion to DataStage from the existing Informatica offering could be a tough process, but not converting could be tough as well.
Jack Hafeli, Ventana Research
Ascet Volume 5, July 26, 2003

 Operational Performance Management: The Imperative for Improving the Performance of Operational Processes  Volume 5, July 26, 2003
For companies to improve profitability, A new business imperative called Operational Performance Management is critical to increase effectiveness by improving business activities and processes. By strategically integrating software, hardware and business process, companies can exponentially increase value. Ventana Research’s recent Operational Performance Management Study shows that this imperative is considered extremely important by companies and reveals that business intelligence and business process management are more important to measure and monitor business activities than ERP or building systems through application servers or EAI. Companies must use a strategic, methodical process for Operational Performance Management initiatives like the Ventana Research PerformanceCycle that can drive higher levels of efficiency in making effective business decisions.
Mark Smith, Ventana Research
Ascet Volume 5, July 26, 2003