Cognos Sales Quota Allocation Performance Blueprint
This Performance Blueprint enables incentive compensation analysts and sales managers at pharmaceutical companies to determine the proper sales quota for each territory, addressing changing market conditions while meeting corporate revenue objectives.

IBM Cognos Allocations Planning Performance Blueprint

This Blueprint allows cost-center managers to allocate all or part of their expenses to the appropriate profit centers. Profit-center managers collaborate with cost-center managers to either accept or reject the proposed allocations.

• Data Model [Release 2]
• Web demo

IBM Cognos Capital Project Planning Performance Blueprint

This Blueprint manages capital project requests, their justification, and the capital request approval process.

Release 1 version 1

• Data Model

• Evaluation Guide
• Data Model
• Web Demo

IBM Cognos Discretionary Capital Expenditure Planning Performance Blueprint

This Blueprint facilitates planning for capital spending, while ensuring that projects adhere to established corporate guidelines.

• Evaluation Guide
• Data Model [Release 1]
• Web Seminar

IBM Cognos Expense Planning and Control Performance Blueprint

This Blueprint uses projections from planning systems or other Blueprints, as well as actual history, to drive budgeting and expense planning processes.

• Evaluation Guide
• Web Seminar

IBM Cognos Initiative Planning Performance Blueprint

This Blueprint uses projections from other Blueprints or planning systems as well as actual history to drive labor or capital expense planning for new initiatives.

• Data Model [Release 2]
• Web Demo

IBM Cognos Integrated Financial Statements Performance Blueprint

(formerly Strategic Financial Planning and Forecasting)

This Blueprint aligns financial objectives to synchronize and coordinate operational plans across the enterprise. It updates financial statements, including Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flow in real-time as financial and operational drivers are updated.

• Evaluation Guide
• Data Model [Release 1]

IBM Cognos Risk Analysis Performance Blueprint

This Blueprint enables a corporation to analyze and assess risks associated with future performance, and quantify risk mitigation strategies.

• Data Model [Release 2]

IBM Cognos Sales Compensation Planning Performance Blueprint

This Blueprint enables organizations to manage compensation targets and commission payouts, archive historical data and previous projections for reference and analysis, and link sales compensation plans with headcount projections and integrated financials.

• Data Model [Release 2]

IBM Cognos Sales Planning and Forecasting Performance Blueprint

This Blueprint enables organizations to manage revenues, archive historical data and previous projections for reference and analysis, and integrate the sales planning process into supply chain forecasts, headcount projections, sales compensation planning, and integrated financials.

• Evaluation Guide
• Data Model [Release 2]
• Web Seminar

IBM Cognos Strategic Finance Performance Blueprint

This Blueprint provides a complete performance management framework for strategic financial planning. It supports a systematic, Web-based process for evaluating long-range plans and strategies, analyzing scenarios, supporting decision making, and monitoring success. Long-term strategic financial planning helps companies establish performance targets and guide resource allocations for operational plans and budgets across the enterprise.

• Evaluation Guide
• Data Model [Release 2]
• Web Demo

IBM Cognos Strategic Investment Management Blueprint NEW!

Developed in cooperation with IBM Global Business Services, this Blueprint helps finance organizations evaluate the impact of multiple strategic programs and funding initiatives. It facilitates planning over a five-year period, with a full set of consolidated financial statements that offer distinct views for base growth, strategic programs, and acquisitions and divestitures, including tax and credit rating impacts.

• Evaluation Guide

IBM Cognos Strategic Long Range Planning Performance Blueprint

This Blueprint uses projections from the Integrated Financial Statements Blueprint (formerly Strategic Financial Planning and Forecasting) and the Initiative Planning Blueprints to assess the impact of market growth factors and strategic initiatives on corporate P/L projections over a five-year period.

• Data Model [Release 2]
• Web Demo

IBM Cognos Workforce Planning Performance Blueprint

(formerly referred to as Headcount and Compensation Planning)

This Blueprint provides forward-looking visibility into workforce decisions at both the divisional and company levels. Headcount projections can then be leveraged as drivers in other planning processes.

• Evaluation Guide
• Data Model [Release 1]

IBM Cognos Workforce Resource Management Performance Blueprint

This Blueprint enables front-line managers to align worker staffing and scheduling with business drivers. It is short-term in scope, but highly detailed.

• Evaluation Guide
• Data Model [Release 1]