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DecisionPoint Software Extends Powerful Financial Performance Visibility with Release 11.


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DecisionPoint(R) Software (www.decisionpointsw.com), a provider of financial performance management solutions, today announced the immediate availability of Release 11 of its Financial Performance Management suite. With this release, Global 1000 companies can now gain unparalleled visibility into the financial impact of their operations by automatically linking enterprise data from Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP and legacy into a tightly integrated analytic an·a·lyt·ic or an·a·lyt·i·cal
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 environment.

DecisionPoint Release 11 now automatically and intelligently sources finance data and finance centric operational data across a multitude of enterprise data sources including Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP and legacy to create a pre-built enterprise data warehouse. The DecisionPoint enterprise data warehouse supports an analytic environment for all classes of users that provides them with access to the transaction details behind summary reports at a fraction of the time and cost it takes to implement other business intelligence, business performance management and data warehousing See data warehouse.

data warehousing - data warehouse
 solutions.

"DecisionPoint's Release 11 further expands our ability to deliver Financial Performance Management across the enterprise, to all classes of users," said Kim Autry, vice president of Business Systems for CNL CNL CityNightLine (German Rail)
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 Restaurant Properties, Inc. "With the new, live Excel integration to DecisionPoint's warehouse, our accounting and financial managers can dynamically drill down and drill across to the transaction details behind summary reports across different lines of business within an Excel environment, transforming the way they query and analyze financial and operational results.

"We are very pleased to extend our financial performance management solution to provide large enterprises with a way to quickly and cost efficiently integrate enterprise data from Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP and legacy systems," said Bart Foster, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of DecisionPoint Software. "Integrating multi-ERP data into a single environment further extends our core value proposition -- fastest time to value for summary and detail financial analytics."

DecisionPoint Release 11 delivers new features and functionality, such as:

--Updated Source Expert(TM) for PeopleSoft: PeopleSoft customers now have a pre-packaged solution that intelligently sources financial and HR data from PeopleSoft 8.x into DecisionPoint's warehouse for an integrated reporting and analysis of their financial performance.

--New Source Expert(TM) for SAP R/3 4.6: SAP customers can now achieve Financial Performance Management--with unmatched time to value--through intelligent sourcing of financial data from SAP and other systems into DecisionPoint's pre-built, auto-configured data warehouse.

--New DecisionCast(TM) for Excel: DecisionCast, DecisionPoint's business intelligence and reporting tool, now integrates Excel with DecisionPoint's warehouse. DecisionCast for Excel transforms the static Excel spreadsheets The following is a list of spreadsheets. Freeware/open source software
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 into a dynamic analytic application that can query and analyze the data in DecisionPoint's warehouse.

--Compliance Dashboard (1) See Mac Dashboard.

(2) A software-based control panel for one or more applications, network devices or industrial machines. Dashboards display simulated gauges and dials that look somewhat like an automobile dashboard.
 on Teradata Warehouse: The Compliance Dashboard helps companies and their auditors analyze and report corporate-wide financial and operational performance according to according to
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 regulatory requirements Regulatory requirements are part of the process of drug discovery and drug development. Regulatory requirements describe what is necessary for a new drug to be approved for marketing in any particular country.  such as Sarbanes-Oxley. With the availability of Compliance Dashboard on Teradata, companies can extend the visibility of Financial Performance Management to executives and managers, enabling them to make proactive business decisions based on trusted, integrated data in Teradata.

--New Linux server support (Red Hat): DecisionPoint adds Linux server support to give companies a greater choice when deploying DecisionPoint's Financial Performance Management solution.

--Updated Financial Statements for PeopleSoft and SAP: DecisionPoint's Financial Statements Business Domain, a pre-packaged, on-demand financial statements generator, supports Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP data. It enables business users, such as financial managers and analysts, to quickly and easily deliver accurate financial statements regardless of the data source.

About DecisionPoint Software

DecisionPoint's financial performance management software centralizes both financial data and finance-centric operational data to improve decision-making across the full range of business functions including finance, distribution, human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees.  and manufacturing. Using intelligent sourcing, a finance-centric data warehouse and an integrated analytic and reporting environment, DecisionPoint gets companies up and running with a strategic business intelligence solution in a fraction of the time it takes with traditional tools.

In 2004 DecisionPoint Software won honors from the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal (Top 50 Fastest-Growing Private Companies), DM Review (2004 DM Review 100 Award Winner), San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden  Business Times (Top 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies), and Start magazine (Hottest Companies of the Year).

Global 2000 companies using DecisionPoint include Albertsons, British Telecom The telephone and communications carrier that provides services in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It used to be a division of the British Post Office, but was privatized in 1984 under Margaret Thatcher's administration. , Sony, Quantum and Imation. Founded in 1996, DecisionPoint is headquartered in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south.  with international headquarters in Maidenhead Maidenhead, city (1991 pop. 59,809), Windsor and Maidenhead, S central England, on the Thames River. It is a residential town with brewing and milling industries as well as a resort. The 13th-century stone bridge was rebuilt in the 1770s. , United Kingdom.

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