Cognos Performance Management

Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting

Planning, budgeting and forecasting software enables your organization to answer the fundamental business question, “What should we be doing?”

Planning is the foundation of performance management. Cognos 8 Planning enables your organization to turn carefully crafted strategies and objectives into discrete plans, budgets, and forecasts. It allows you to build dynamic, interconnected business models that deliver better predictability and vastly improve your ability to manage performance.

Cognos 8 Planning helps integrate operational and financial planning in real time to give you immediate visibility into resource requirements and future business performance. It enables you to:

  • Define your goals—Create a clear-cut strategy for achieving best-in-class status.
  • Proceed from "what-is" to evaluate the "what-if" scenarios critical for future success.
  • Connect operations and finance—Synchronize and coordinate operational and financial plans to improve reliability. Link sales projections, headcount, expense and capital expenditure plans with integrated financial projections.
  • Extend the planning process beyond Finance to capture the intuition and insights of people on the front lines of the business.
  • Communicate plans enterprise-wide and provide real-time feedback to all participants across departments, functions, and geographies.
  • Adjust your targets, plans and resource allocations as necessary with flexible, driver-based plans and rolling forecasts that let you realign your activities as events occur, rather than following annual budgets that are out of date as soon as they're completed.

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