outperform launch –

„All you need to know about outperform“

Alexander Friedrich / Senior Sales Director

September 2010

Values and philosophy

Customer focused

Employees

Partnership

Responsibility

We like to inspire you!

Our strength

20 years successful in business

Packaged solution with high flexibility for customer

specific requirements

Global partner network (sales & consulting &

technology)

Headquarter Herrenberg/Stuttgart, Office in Zürich

More than 200 successful implemented projects

With Hyperion “Partner of the year” in 2000 & 2007

Challenges today

Companies are pushed to do

more with less.

90% of CFO said in 2009 that

reduction on “operating cost's” is

one of the highest priorities.*

CIO´s top priority in 2009 was to

align more efficient business with

IT processes.**

Source: *Deloitte CFO Survey, **Gartner CIO Global Survey – Top 10’s, *** Forrester - How IT Must Shape And Manage Demand

IT Demand

IT Budget

Company

Revenue

growth flat declining

enable

growth

improving

margin

reduce fixed and variable

costs

Abb. ***

ad-hoc analysis& querying

Standard

reporting

FuturePast

simulation andforecasting

Present

Value generating performance management

learn understand improve

Corporate Performance Management Modell

Quelle: PricewaterhouseCoopers 2009

Performance Management is a Process

• CXOs and Managers

• Knowledge workers

• Analysts

Helps understand risks and future implicationsof business alternatives and decisions

• Many iterations

• New data created

• Forward looking

• Variance & what-if analyses

• Multiple data sources

• Financial KPIs and

Operational KPIs

• Frequent updates

Budgets - Financial & Operational

Forecasts - Financial & Operational

Operational Data - Actuals

Business Performance Management

June 2010

Essbase developed (1991)

by Arbor

(1992)

ABC released (1998)

SPPM released (2007)

outperform

Analysis Services

MS SQL Server (2000)

BSC released (2004)

Development

outperform – key features

Powerful and highly flexible calculation and analysis capabilities

End-user driven analysis and reporting capabilities for real-time information

Complete functionality for budgeting, planning and forecasting

Strong simulation capabilities for scenario and “what if” modeling

Business Content for a fast implementation and delivery

Easy to use and learn, as the user interface has a Excel on the web style

Key features - finance

Integrated financial planning Revenue- / Sales planning Asset planning Cost Center planning HR / resource planning Capex planning Allocations (top down / bottom up) P&L Planning Liquidities planning Simulation Capabilities Currency conversions Intercompany eliminations Profitability analysis Workflow management Management consolidation Extended reporting

Key features – strategy

Strategic planning

Balanced Scorecard

Strategy Management Value- und Risk Management Strategy Maps

Aligned with financial planning

KPI Management

Scorecards

Case and effect relation

Cockpit and dashboard

annotations

attachements

Key features – projects

Innovation management Project portfolio management Project planning Project Scoring und reporting Value- und Risk management Resource management Capacity planning Time tracking Cost Management Expense plannig Allocation Management CAPEX planning Financial planning Project controlling R&D / IT controlling Versioning / history annotations attachments

Benefits

outperform is centralized approach to extend your Essbase infrastructure with more out of the box functionality.

Aligned planning- and reporting processes reduce the manual efforts dramatically

Automation capabilities speed up your budgeting and forecasting cycles

Rapid deployment with the business content and use of your existing Excel models and templates

Excel on the web user interface make the usage very easy

outperfrom requires no programming or coding and can easily been operated and managed from business

Highly scalable platform and through web straig forward distribution to the end-user community

Key „take aways“…

Our successful projects, customer satisfaction and loyalty shows

that we absolute committed to your success.

Outperform is a comprehensive and highly flexible solution for an

effective and efficient way to do performance management.

With the standard modules and content we do fast

implementation to keep your cost's low.

We offer 2 free consulting day's to discuss your Essbase issues

and guide for improvement to gain higher benefit from Essbase

„Doing the right things

and

doing the things right!“

Peter F. Drucker Management Expert, Author and Teacher (1909 - 2005)

We enable customers to…