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To assist in delivering improved overall business performance, CFOs have reasserted their role as owners of both financial and management information and processes. A corporation with the right processes in place is able to turn its attention to added value finance: evaluating strategies, assessing how to drive top line growth, improve the bottom line, and using assets more effectively. Most management processes are linked to each other in one way or another. Budgeting and planning, for instance, are intrinsically intertwined with other financial processes like consolidation, reporting, risk management and analysis. These processes, in turn, provide critical insight for managing risk, steering corporate performance and shareholder value, as well as making strategic decisions.

"We don't have to spend a lot of time training users on a new system." —MS. WONG WOON CHUN, MANAGER, MANAGEMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT, SINGAPORE PETROLEUM COMPANY LIMITED. 

Enterprise IT workload environments are becoming more complex, dynamic, and unpredictable. Traditional static batch processing workloads are being run side by side with dynamic business-critical composite applications and process flows that can have highly variable resource consumption requirements and peak hours.

Infor Performance Management Consolidates Financials with Robust Functionality and Simplified Data Access

Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, today announced that Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc., a top automotive systems manufacturer, has expanded its relationship with Infor by implementing Infor10 Corporate Performance Management (PM10) to consolidate budget processes and facilitate more efficient and detailed financial reporting. Hitachi Automotive employees now have access to comprehensive data from each of Hitachi's five locations operating Infor CPM, enabling both faster financial approvals and simplified data retrieval. Additionally, the scalability and multi-currency functionality of Infor CPM will play a key role in Hitachi's global growth initiatives, including plans for a new facility outside the United States.