| Time and time again important decisions are made at | | | | access to all enterprise information, in a seamless |
| organizations and across sectors, using the traditional | | | | environment that provides users with instant access to |
| short term "financial balance sheet approach". Markets | | | | information at all times. One of the main benefits not |
| globally have demonstrated how this approach is | | | | mentioned earlier, which is critical to the ongoing |
| flawed, because it doesn't take into account how | | | | success of any enterprise implementation, is |
| these short-term decisions will impact future | | | | collaboration. Collaboration can be divided into two |
| performance levels or the long-term viability of an | | | | groups: collaboration among developers and |
| organization. | | | | collaboration among business users. These two groups |
| Earlier we suggested government take an integrated | | | | can come together to extract higher levels of value |
| approach to Performance Management, because of | | | | from Open Source technologies. |
| the tremendous benefits associated with having | | | | |