“How are we doing?” From small-business owners to CEOs of major corporations, executives are constantly trying to answer this question about their business. Determining the direction of a company and making wise business decisions starts with a clear understanding of the big picture.

Gartner在2001年创造了企业绩效管理（CPM）的期限和概念，为公司提供商业见解，可用于提高整体财务业绩。

所以，让我们来看看Gartner’s definitionof CPM.

企业绩效管理（CPM）是一种涵盖用于监控和管理企业业务性能的方法，指标，流程和系统的伞术语。使能CPM的应用程序将战略性聚焦的信息转化为运营计划并发送聚合结果。这些应用程序也集成到规划和控制周期的许多元素中，或者它们地址BAM或客户关系优化需求。

CPM必须通过一套分析应用程序来支持，该应用程序提供支持这些进程，方法和度量的功能。

为了澄清，CPM不是一个特定的策略。搜索DataManagment.com, a knowledge guide for data management professionals, says “CPM is a subset of business intelligence (BI) that involves monitoring and managing an organization's performance, according to key performance indicators (KPI’s) such as revenue, return on investment (ROI), overhead and operational costs.”

CPM的好处

What is it about time that makes it so valuable? Even though nearly every sales pitch for a service or app revolves around saving time, time can’t be saved. Ever been to a bank where you can deposit your saved time and come back later and retrieve it?

然而，时间可以更有效地使用。

And that’s where CPM comes in. Just like individuals, companies are desperate to use their time well to keep up with today’s fast paced business environment.

CPM enables companies to develop a streamlined and more productive workflow. The key is to improve communication throughout an organization. According toG2., CPM does this by “aligning and executing organizational strategies to improve productivity for the company as a whole…streamlining workflows and identifying problem areas that need improvement.”

How Is CPM Used by the Financial Suite?

通过CPM，金融部门可以超越经常繁琐且耗时的生产报告汇率。报告可以被视为一种工具，使过程开始的工具可以获得有价值的见解，例如如何分配金钱并确保它明智地花费，而不是最终目标。

With CPM software, “Finance can do more than simply report what has already happened and can become more effective at forecasting, analyzing multiple scenarios, and spotting long term trends,” saysBizible by Marketo一个Adobe公司。这种更大的贡献使财务团队非常宝贵。

“The main aim of CPM is to drive companies towards their success by allowing managers or executives to manage and track the company’s financial health against goals,” saysSoftware Suggest. “It helps measure financial success against various metrics.” Incorporating this wide range of systems and data, CPM enables the financial suite to make informed decisions about every aspect of a business.

According toG2.，CPM软件通常与企业资源规划（ERP）系统，会计软件和商业智能软件一起使用。

CPM为施工金融专业人士的福利

One of the challenges construction companies and others in the AEC industry face is working with multiple companies on a project. The challenge of collaboration impacts every department. For example, financial professionals who work for a general contractor may be responsible for payments to multiple subcontractors.

As such, industry professionals are constantly striving to create the elusive document and data that everyone can agree is accurate and up-to-date. The nightmare scenario , perRSM, a leading provider of audit, tax, and consulting services, is having “multiple versions of the same data from a variety of sources, or limited visibility of data,” and not being able to determine which is correct. This leads to uncertainty and confusion, which can delay a project and impact costs.

“CPM software provides a ‘single source of truth,’ and by doing so reduces the risk of errors and gives greater insight into your financial status through improved reporting facilities,” according toRSM.

因此，CPM培养协作，因为它允许所有各方根据相同的信息进行操作。例如，建筑公司可以在其他公司提供合作伙伴获取相关信息。这允许每个合作伙伴在发生时保持最新的变化，从而加速，以及改善决策过程。在一个时间需求呈指数增长的行业中，信息共享的增加速度是无价的。

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