IBM Cognos Performance Management Software:

Scorecards, Dashboards and Financial Consolidation software help companies answer a fundamental performance management question, “How are we doing?”

Scorecards

Scorecards distil information into a small number of metrics and targets.

Deliver at-a-glance information—Stop sifting through a stack of reports to find what’s right…or wrong. Scorecards show you immediately how the company performs against targets you set.
Communicate strategy and targets—Metrics show everyone what’s important, what’s expected, and how you’re doing.
Increase accountability—Let people see the strategy, understand their part in making the strategy succeed, and give them metrics to measure their success.
Connect departments—Scorecard metrics, like your strategy, are interdependent. See how your red metric affects others.

Dashboards

Dashboards translate complex information into high-impact presentations using gauges, maps, charts, and other graphical elements.

See changes—Gain a dynamic view of business conditions with timely, refreshed data.

• Intuitive—Provide an at-a-glance understanding of information for faster action.
• Understand what’s behind the picture—Drill through graphs for more detail.
• Align decision-makers—Unite data from different departments for the complete picture.

Financial Consolidation

Consolidate multiple diverse ledgers into a single, common chart-of-accounts structure. Reduce your consolidation, close, and reporting cycles by days or even weeks.

• Integrate financial data—Add pre-built rules and calculations to populate plans or scorecards.
• Manage complex business models—Multinationals can evaluate financial results across countries, currencies, and legal entities.
• Gain alignment—Improve planning and forecasting with a single version of financial facts.
• Easy-to-use—Access information through a familiar Excel interface for easy data collection or distribution.

Reporting

Reporting from Cognos lets you author and distribute every report type: high-volume production reports, individual ad hoc queries, widely distributed business reports, centrally authored reports with self-service customization, and more. Draw on any data source. Rely on a single metadata layer.

The result:

• Higher user adoption, better decisions across the organization, and the ability to respond to threats and opportunities.
• Gain alignment with a single, reliable version of the truth —Common data definitions means you spend less time debating the numbers and more time deciding what to do.
• Connect with all data sources — Don’t limit yourself with proprietary reporting packages that do part of the job. Author reports across multiple data sources. Get a head start on integrated performance management.
• Make the right decisions…faster —Timely reports and self-service reporting give you the information you need, when you need it.
• Meet the information needs of all users —Deliver information over the Web, on mobile devices, through common interfaces like Microsoft Office. Give people information the way they want to see it.

Analysis

Analysis from Cognos lets users explore information from a variety of dimensions…under their control. How do results change over time? In different regions? By product?

• Get the answers and detail you need —See information by department, by region, by product, and more. Drill down from a summary to transaction-level detail.
• Find trends —See changes year over year, month to month, or any other way you want the data modeled.
• Model your business in a multidimensional way —See how data points connect and compare with each other.
• Complex analysis simplified —All users, whatever their business or technical level, can view relationships in your data and change displays with ease
• Understand what’s behind the picture—Drill through graphs for more detail.
• Align decision-makers—Unite data from different departments for the complete picture.

Scorecarding

Dashboards

Extendrd BI

Analysis