Corporate performance management (CPM) applications are primarily used by the office of finance to support the core financial processes of consolidation, reporting and budgeting; however, they're increasingly being used outside of corporate finance to help link corporate and operational plans, to provide wider access to financial analytics, and to help develop strategies that deliver in regard ...

Open Text’s acquisition of Vignette in July 2009 and Oracle’s pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems continue the horizontal portal market’s trend toward vendor consolidation. Most new horizontal portal projects are being launched based on a narrowing list of horizontal portal vendors. Some open-source horizontal portal and portal-as-a-service options provide alternatives for enterprises unwil...

Market Definition/Description Enterprise search technology relates users' queries to many different kinds of information in order to identify relevant, contextualized information and, in the process, perform light analysis. Vendors in the enterprise search market provide the means to discover information, index it, and combine it with information derived from live queries in order to help peopl...

In this paper we investigate the shaping and effects of a simple industry analysis tool – the Magic Quadrant – so as to demonstrate it has virtues not readily appreciated by social scientists interested in the relationship between technology and markets, objects and organisation. These are its role in facilitating ‘comparison’ between vendors in the market for information and communication tech...

The effect of applied stress on the temperature dependence of the longitudinal ultrasonic velocity has been investigated in commercial aluminum and copper. Velocities of 10 MHz longitudinal waves as a function of temperature were measured on ten specimens of these metals while they were subjected to external compressive stresses. In all measurements, the velocity increased linearly as the tempe...

This paper studies properties of functions having monotone tails. We extend Theorem 1 Dhaene et al. (2002a) and show how the tail quantiles a random variable transformed with function can be expressed as original variable. The main result is intuitive, in that (2002a)’s still hold, but only for certain quantile values. However, proof presents some complications arise especially when involved ha...

Whilst the notion of path dependence features quite prominently in organisation and business history literature, its actual meaning and logic have remained vague and ambiguous. In order to advance a more precise understanding of the underlying logic we present a theoretical framework explaining how organisations become path-dependent. At its core are the dynamics of self-reinforcing mechanisms,...