Drive Your Performance. Monitor Your Performance. Understand Your Performance.

Performance Management Webinar Series – Align Your Organization’s Actions with Corporate Strategy

Businesses strive for alignment between their objectives, strategies, resources, and opportunities in their chosen markets. However, lack of predictability, accountability, and visibility are often key drivers of poor performance.

Corporate performance management (CPM) links planning, monitoring, and reporting to solve these problems, aligning execution with strategy across your organization.

In just one hour, each of these webinars reveals how Cognos performance management solutions enable businesses to drive, monitor, and understand performance.

	Monitor Your Organization’s Performance with Metrics management – Tuesday, October 26, 2004, 2:00 PM ET Discover how metrics management - or scorecarding - helps you monitor and measure performance against organizational goals so you can focus on what matters the most. Metrics Management allows you to translate strategic goals into tangible results, monitor and control costs, identify and correct inefficiencies, and realize greater value from your ERP system. You will also learn how Cognos Metrics Manager allows you to model your plans or strategies as a set of inter-connected performance indicators and to communicate these metrics throughout your organization.
	Understand Your Organization’s Performance with Reporting – Thursday, November 4, 2004, 2:00 PM ET Reporting helps you understand your company's performance. It lets you take immediate action on the most recent information. It creates a common context for decision-making across every department and at every level and ensures that your organization works from a single version of the truth. And, it is a critical component of corporate performance management (CPM). You will see how Cognos ReportNet delivers unprecedented flexibility and ease of use for business users, allowing you to create complex reports with drag-and-drop simplicity as well as providing you with superior report interactivity to easily navigate multiple reports.
	Drive Your Organization’s Performance with Enterprise Planning – Tuesday, November 11, 2004, 2:00 PM ET Explore how enterprise planning enables organizations to move from a slow, ineffective budgeting process – often based on a system of disconnected spreadsheets – to a controlled, collaborative planning process that involves hundreds of contributors, allows for real-time updates to the plan, and enables the organization to re-align the plan quickly as the business environment changes. You will also see how to increase visibility, flexibility, and predictability in your planning and budgeting with Cognos Enterprise Planning.