ADVANCE performance management

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Reporting-led performance management fully connects with planning in this fourth step. Cognos, an IBM company, enables a parallel planning-led performance management journey for customers who choose to start their path from Finance, focusing on planning and budgeting capabilities.

Cognos helps organizations integrate planning and reporting functionality to:

• Connect operational and financial reporting and planning.
• Integrate key performance indicators with driver-based budgets and plans.
• Deliver visibility into operational and financial performance to see threats and opportunities, and take action by adjusting forecasts for greater control.
• Reduce total cost of ownership: fewer vendors and products to install, integrate, and maintain; less time required evaluating other software.

The ability to seamless connect reports, scorecards, plans, and budgets is a key reason analysts and customers recognize Cognos leadership in delivering the best performance management suite in the industry.

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