Now more than ever organizations are under pressure to increase revenues, reduce costs, and gain the most value from their investments in business intelligence and performance management. Capitalizing on a successful and cost-effective strategy to deploy highly functional Cognos scorecards to users that provide meaningful, accurate and timely information is the best vehicle for creating awareness, value, and user adoption.

In an ideal world, your staff would have the time, experience and knowledge necessary to complete any scorecard project. Trouble is, we live in the real world, and your staff is already fully utilized on projects and maintenance.  Even if time were available, they may not possess all the knowledge, skills and perspective gained from successfully implementing BI scorecards for years, nor would they have the many advantages and pre-built content and proven methodology provided by DataClarity’s Scorecard Express.

If you are looking for a low cost approach to quickly get up and running with best-in class Cognos scorecards in your environment utilizing your data and requirements, then the Scorecard Express Service is the answer.

What is Scorecard Express Service?

Scorecard Express Service is a high value cost-effective customizable service for rapidly developing and deploying Cognos scorecards using best practices.  Scorecard Express is packaged with DataClarity’s Scorecard Development Framework and Briefing Book Reports at no additional cost.

What is Scorecard Framework?

Scorecard Framework is a framework that facilitates development and deployment of scorecarding systems using standard Cognos Metric Administrator, Author and User license roles.  It features development methods that expedites and streamlines development of best-in-class scorecards utilizing your data supplied in both relational and dimensional sources.

The created scorecard will provide navigation through scorecards, metric groups, metric impact diagrams and if it is a balance scorecard strategies and themes.  The Scorecard can also be easily customized with your company style, colors and logo.

What capabilities are included in Scorecard Framework?

• A metric designer package that automated creation and maintenance of scorecards and scorecard components
• Creation of scorecards with owners and owner security
• Security implementation for access as read-write or read
• Automation of the creation of strategies and themes
• Automation of the creation of metric types and metrics
• Automation of impact diagrams linking metrics
• Briefing Book for balance scorecards providing access to consumers
• Metric to metric correlation report
• Business objective to business objective correlation report

What optional capabilities can be provided?

Scorecard operations are dependent on the definition of targets and tolerances.  Many organizations find that these requirements change with time and building the can be a tedious task.  As an optional service, we can provide automatic integration with Cognos Planning for modeling and creating these data points removing an enormous barrier to success.

Is the Scorecard Express Service affordable?

The Scorecard Express Service is very affordable and an incredible value given our rapid development and deployment approach that leverages Scorecard Framework methodology.  Turnkey pilot engagements can be completed in as short as 2 weeks, and can be tailored around your specific business and technical requirements.

Why consider DataClarity?

DataClarity’s Scorecard Express Service is delivered by certified senior and principal-level Cognos experts, and is customized for your particular technical and business requirements. Our seasoned professionals have a solid foundation of theory and true hands-on experience in designing, developing and deploying solutions. Using their collective knowledge, experience, and lessons learned, DataClarity experts are ideally equipped to provide your organization real-world Cognos mentoring, coaching and training that transcends traditional contracting and staff augmentation.

With over 500 successful projects completed over the past 6 years, and an award-winning IBM Cognos partnership dating back to 1999, DataClarity has an impeccable track record, and a blend of business knowledge, technical skills, and training expertise that translates into more value and less risk.

Next steps

Contact us today to learn how the Scorecard Express Service can be tailored to meet your particular scorecard requirements – you can complete our information request form or call us at 877.454.4898, and we would be delighted to consult with you and make specific recommendations.