Cognos 8 Financial Performance Analytics

• Value for the Business: Provides standard, packaged reporting and analysis for general ledger, accounts receivable and accounts payable data in your transaction systems.
• Value for IT: Streamlines the configuration of reports and allows users to add new content to meet changing business requirements quickly and cost-effectively.
• Built on the open, enterprise-class IBM Cognos 8 platform for greater interoperability with your data systems and a unified view of performance throughout the organization.

IBM Cognos® 8 Financial Performance Analytics provides finance and line-of-business professionals with consistent financial management reporting and analysis for general ledger, accounts receivable and accounts payable.

This powerful financial management solution accesses data residing in different transaction systems to give management an integrated view of financial performance, which can support the close process. It can also be simply configured to meet rapidly changing business needs, enabling faster insight and smarter financial decisions.

Integrated financial management

• Gain cross-functional insight into general ledger, account receivable and accounts payable data with packaged, best-practice reports in standard formats.
• Integrate with other business intelligence capabilities to align your finance practices with strategic goals.
• Gain a comprehensive line-of-business view of performance by seamlessly integrating financial analytics with other IBM packaged analytic applications.

Generate standard reports quickly

• Support a faster close process and generate standard reports quickly to validate financial data and accelerate decision making.
• Gain actionable cross-functional insight from multiple transactional data sources.
• Eliminate costly, inaccurate manual internal controls using consistent reporting and analysis.
• Improve the efficiency of financial management analysis with standard self-serve management reports.

Change as quickly as your business does

• Streamline the configuration of reports and add new content quickly to meet changing business requirements.
• Eliminate much of the substantial coding, customizing and interpreting of data normally required to update and modify reports.
• Ensure continuously relevant reporting and analysis to meet changing business and market conditions.
  

Industry-leading business analytics in a packaged application

• Integrate your workforce management processes with business intelligence and performance management capabilities for planning, reporting, analysis, scorecarding and dashboarding.
• Standardize your business analytics capabilities on the IBM Cognos 8 platform to lower your total cost of ownership.

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