Good decisions are the building blocks of great business performance. The performance management system from Cognos, an IBM company, integrates software, services, best-practices, and partners. The result – a common understanding and accountable actions based on answers to your performance management questions:
- How are we doing? Measuring performance with scorecards and dashboards tracks your key metrics.
- Why? Reporting and analysis let you see data, gain context, understand trends, and spot anomalies.
- What should we be doing? Planning, budgets, and forecasts let you set and share a reliable view of the future.
DataClarity delivers the complete range of Business Intelligence capabilities on a single, service-oriented architecture (SOA). Author, share, and use reports that draw on data across all enterprise sources for better business decisions.
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For organizations looking to improve both operational and financial planning, IBM Cognos 8 Planning provides unprecedented power and flexibility to turn sophisticated strategy into discrete plans, budgets, and forecasts.
IBM Cognos 8 Planning is a finance-managed solution that provides real-time visibility into resource requirements and future business results. It supports best practices such as driver-based planning and rolling forecasts, and serves as the cornerstone for enterprise-wide performance management.
A study conducted by IBM identified that the typical company utilizes only 2% to 4% of the data they collect in operational systems. These operational systems, such as online transaction processing (OLTP), Enterprise Resource Planning, legacy and e-Commerce systems, provide a high level of automation and organization of corporate data, yet they provide limited access and analytical capabilities for business users.
