Planning & Consolidation Data Models

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.

IBM Cognos Capital Project Planning Performance Blueprint

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

IBM Cognos Discretionary Capital Expenditure Planning Performance Blueprint

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.