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Active Enterprise Management. (ABC Technologies).


ABC ABC
 in full American Broadcasting Co.

Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928.
 Technologies \ BetterManagement.com

ABC Technologies is the leading provider of activity-based analytic management software for measuring and improving an organization's financial performance. ABC Technologies has more than 4,300 software installations in 73 countries. Commercial installations include Nokia, Motorola, Compaq, Cargill, Nestle, Kimberly-Clark, Pillsbury, Sprint, Nordstrom, Fidelity Investments Fidelity Investments is a group of privately held companies in the financial services industry. It is made up by two independent but closely cooperating companies, Fidelity Management and Research Corporation (FMR Co.  and Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG (IPA: /'dɔɪ.tʃə/[1]) (ISIN: DE0005140008, NYSE: DB) (English: German Bank . Public-sector installations include the U.S. Army, the U.S. Marine Corps, Canadian National Defense, UN Development Programme and many state and municipal government entities worldwide.

ACTIVE ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT

Through the Active Enterprise Management (AEM AEM Applied and Environmental Microbiology (journal)
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[TM]) methodology, Oros[R] applications provide integrated activity-based cost modeling, value chain analysis, scorecarding/performance measurement and planning capabilities. Managers can continuously analyze, communicate and track their organization's status, revising strategies and actively maintaining alignment throughout the entire organization and its value chain.

Active Enterprise Management transforms activity-based data into meaningful strategic, operational and tactical information. Managers can analyze business processes from diverse sources -- including customers, suppliers and internal data warehouses -- to unlock valuable intelligence. They can them achieve: cost management and cost-to-serve analysis: profitability enhancement (analysis by customer, product and channel); shared-service pricing and analysis; resource planning Resource planning may refer to:
  • Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
  • Manufacturing resource planning (MRP and MRPII)
  • Distribution Resource Planning (DRP)
  • Human resources (HR)
; increased value chain efficiency; business process planning and re-engineering; and alignment of strategic objectives with organizational activities.

Oros applications provide consistent foundational models aligning and communicating all metrics across the enterprise.

Software Applications:

Oros[R] ABC/M ABC/M Activity Based Costing/Management  -- Act with accurate knowledge of the true costs of products, services, activities and business processes.

Oros[R] Resource Planning -- Plan resource requirements The components of a system that are required by software or hardware. It refers to resources that have finite limits such as memory and disk. In a PC, it may also refer to the resources required to install a new peripheral device, namely IRQs, DMA channels, I/O addresses and memory  by predicting the financial impact of various scenarios before implementation.

Oros[R] Value Chain Analysis/Modeler (VCA/M) -- Analyze supply and demand influences in your value chain. Identify cost and profit improvement opportunities to eliminate costs or change processes to improve profitability.

Oros[R] Scorecard -- Translate strategies into action. Communicate strategic goals, report individual and group performance.

Services

Technical support is available around the world, via telephone or on line. Training by certified Oros trainers provides essential technical courses, from theory through advanced implementation. Training is available on site, in public classes and online.

Application Services See ASP and Web services.  enable clients and Affiliate/Consultant partners to leverage the technical and domain expertise of ABC experts.

INFORMATION

BetterManagement.com (www.BetterManagement.com), an of ABC subsidiary, is revolutionizing how managers achieve. The award-winning web portal See portal.  is the most authoritative resource for performance management information. Access articles from industry-leading publications, Web seminars, white papers, case studies and online courses.

BetterManagement University delivers comprehensive e-learning courses from ABC Technologies and Cardean University, an association of leading universities from around the world.

BetterManagement LIVE is a series of annual performance management conferences held in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Central America Central America, narrow, southernmost region (c.202,200 sq mi/523,698 sq km) of North America, linked to South America at Colombia. It separates the Caribbean from the Pacific. , Europe and Australia, hosted jointly hosted by ABC Technologies and BetterManagement.com.

RELATED ARTICLE: ABC Technologies / BetterManagement.com Corporate Headquarters:

16100 NW Cornell Road Beaverton, Oregon 97006

Phone: 503-617-7100

Fax: 503-617-7223

Email: info@abctech.com

Corporate Website www.@abctech.com

Educational Web Portal www.@bettermanagement.com

Number of Employees: 212

Year Founded 1989
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Date:Mar 1, 2002
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