In today's economy we see more companies than ever trying to outsource applications once considered mission critical. The Executive Strategy Manger software-as-a-service (SaaS) approach allows today's companies cut the time spent running BSC applications in-house and focus time on managing their strategy.
Check out this compelling article posted on forbes.com: http://www.forbes.com/cionetwork/2008/06/29/ingres-data-center-tech-cio-cx_es_0630ingres.html
I've been watching the first few days of the 2008 Beijing Olympics in awe of all the world records that are being broken. Just last night the US men's relay swim team "smashed" the previous world record by several seconds, in a sport where tenths of seconds are a long time. It's fitting that come August 2008 when the Olympics are in full swing, the Executive Strategy Manager is posting a record performance of its own.
Performance is big to us. We're constantly striving to enhance the performance of the application in any way that we can, because we know how frustrating it can be trying to use a slow website. That's why we were so excited to finally be perusing a partnership with Akamai to help deliver our application to the far reaches of the globe. Don't get me wrong, we've always had very good performance and very good global coverage, but there are a few spots around the world that saw excessive latency and delays that were out of our control.
I recently came across a case study, published just last month, titled "Information System Effects on Organizations Balanced Scorecard Work". This study was focused exclusively on the ESM application – something our team believes to be the first of its kind!
