Create and administer reports, scorecards, plans & forecasts with data from multiple sources.
Enterprise Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting
Translate your strategies and objectives into plans, budgets, and forecasts. Build dynamic, interconnected models for better visibility and control over your performance. Define your goals, develop clear-cut strategies and allocate the resources to achieve them. Model “what-if” scenarios. Connect Finance with other departments. Coordinate operational and financial plans for better reliability. Communicate plans enterprise-wide. Adjust targets, plans, and resource allocations. Examples included IBM Cognos 8 Planning and IBM Cognos TM1.
Financial Consolidation, Reporting & Analytics
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. Gain alignment—improve planning and forecasting with a single version of financial facts. Access information through a familiar Excel interface for easy data collection or distribution. Get improved planning, analytics, and "what-if" scenario modeling. Gain agile, self-service analysis and optimization of large, highly complex, rapidly changing data sets with real-time response. Examples include: IBM Cognos TM1, IBM Cognos 8 Controller, and IBM Cognos 8 BI.
Reporting & Analysis
Reporting & analysis software 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 and better decisions across the organization. Find trends year over year, month to month, or any other way you want the data modeled. Model your business in a multidimensional way to see how data connects and compares. Deliver information over the Web, on mobile devices, through common interfaces like Microsoft Office. Examples include: IBM Cognos 8 BI, IBM Cognos 8 Go!, and IBM Cognos Workforce Analytic.
Scorecarding & Dashboards
Scorecards distil information into a small number of metrics and targets. Dashboards translate complex information into high-impact presentations using gauges, maps, charts, and other graphical elements. Deliver at-a-glance information—stop sifting through a stack of reports to find what’s right or wrong. Gain a dynamic view of business conditions with timely, refreshed data. Connect departments with interdependent metrics. Understand what’s behind the picture by drilling through graphs for more detail. Examples include: IBM Cognos 8 BI, IBM Cognos Now!, and IBM Cognos Go!
