Some terms go out of fashion as the technology becomes mainstream (eg OLAP), only to be replaced by new terms that better describe new capability expected and hopefully being delivered. One such term is BPM (
Business Performance Management) which I believe has recently been superseded by Performance Management 2.0. Gartner's definition of these terms will be subtly different from IDC's and finance sees things differently from IT. There is much room for overlap and ambiguity.
For many years we used the words "Planning, Analysis, Reporting" as our company tag line to best describe what we did. Today we use "
Business Intelligent" as our tag line, which is more esoteric and we hope more thought provoking as well. Here is what we think about and what best describes what we do now:
Performance Management Applications o Business Intelligence
+
Reporting +
Analysis o
Planning + Budgeting
+ Forecasting
+ Modelling
o
Dashboards + Scorecards
+ Metrics
o
Financial Consolidation o Monitoring
+
Workflow + Notification
* Vertical Applications
o
Retail,
Telco, Banking, Construction
o Consumer Goods, Freight and Transport
o Government, Healthcare, Manufacturing and Industrial
o Professional Services, Resources Utilities.
* Horizontal Applications
o Executive Management
o Finance
o IT
o Sales
o Marketing
o Human Resources
o Production & Logistics
* OLAP
* ETL
Business Intelligence and Performance Management Home.