Cognos Metrics Manager

Align tactics with strategy and monitor performance with scorecarding.

IBM® Cognos® Metrics Manager improves your performance.

• Greater efficiency — align tactics with strategy to use resources effectively.
• Increased accountability — assign owners for each metric and responsibility for performance.
• Increased focus — concentrate on priorities and eliminate distractions.
• Improved communication — communicate results and actions taken to manage performance.
• Improved collaboration — use metrics to link together people, departments and processes.
• Product Highlights:
• Cascading scorecards ensure consistent focus across divisions and departments.
• Central metrics store maintains commonly shared definitions, metrics and data.
• Complete integration with third-party data, applications, and information.
• Simple and streamlined metrics creation process.
• Easy-to-use, zero-footprint Web interface for users and administrators.
• Supports any management methodology: Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma and more.
• Integrated collaboration capabilities improve decision-making.
• Proven scalability and performance.
• Certified by the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative.

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• Three-and five-state status indicators and plan vs. actual data reveal progress against targets.

• View metrics individually, by owner or by project.

• Flexible user environment: view scorecards over the Web or in PDF.

• Metrics watch list: users can be notified by email or on their PDA when a metric changes status or value.

• Personalized column display: show or hide information and add custom benchmark columns.

• Build metrics from disparate or cross-functional data sources: relational databases, business intelligence sources, Microsoft® Excel® files, flat files, user-entered values and more.

• Simplified metrics creation: use menus to define threshold ranges, benchmarks, data source definition, contact names and URLs for contextual information.

• Centrally defined KPIs ensure a consistent version of the truth and priority for all users.

• Maintain historical data, scorecards, diagrams and definitions in a central relational database.

• Guided analysis pathways put performance in context: link to live dashboards, business intelligence reports, SCM or CRM systems or Web sites.

• Integrated business intelligence software let you analyze issues to the required depth.

• Integrated planning lets you recalibrate targets in response to changes in performance.

• Browser-based, zero-footprint environment minimizes training and maintenance.

• Single sign-on dialog box.

• Multilingual: metrics can be populated in any language and then displayed in users' preferred language.

• Certified by the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative.

• Strategy maps display key linkages and communicate goals.

• Impact analysis and process diagrams display cause-and-effect relationships.

• Build scorecards using leading and lagging indicators.