Cognos Performance Management

Scorecards, Dashboards and Financial Consolidation

Scorecards, Dashboards and Financial Consolidation software help companies answer the fundamental business question, “How are we doing?”

Scorecards enhance conventional reporting by including user-set targets. You can set targets for operational priorities in your department and monitor your own progress. You can also use targets to manage objectives and execute on the larger strategy, using innovative approaches such as the Balanced Scorecard. Cognos scorecards:

  • Deliver at-a-glance information—Instead of sifting through numerous reports, scorecards let people see immediately how the company is performing against target in critical areas.
  • Communicate strategy and targets effectively—Help your strategy succeed by expressing important information, key drivers, performance expectations, and results.
  • Increase accountability—Provide people with the information they need to take ownership of their performance: visibility into strategy, understanding of the part they play in making the strategy succeed, and the metrics to measure success.
  • Connect departments—Scorecard metrics are interdependent and show how one department affects another, leading to cooperation among different areas.

Learn more: Scorecards with Cognos 8 Business Intelligence


Dashboards communicate complex information quickly. They translate information from diverse corporate systems into high-impact presentations using gauges, maps, charts, and other graphical elements. Cognos 8 Business Intelligence supports dashboards without the need for a separate application—saving cost, administration time, and training. Cognos dashboards:

  • Present a dynamic, real-world view of business conditions with timely data refreshes.
  • Provide one, simple version of business metrics to enable at-a-glance understanding and faster action.
  • Drill through to access other data sources and reports for more detail about what the dashboard shows you.
  • Unite data from different core areas such as sales, marketing, finance, HR, logistics, and distribution for a complete, multi-departmental picture.

Learn more: Dashboards with Cognos 8 Business Intelligence


Financial Consolidation is at the heart of your financial reporting and regulatory compliance. Cognos 8 Controller lets you secure a single, accurate view of key information by consolidating multiple diverse ledgers into a single, common chart-of-accounts structure. You can reduce your consolidation, close, and reporting cycles by days or even weeks. Cognos 8 Controller enables you to:

  • Add pre-built rules and calculations to populate plans or scorecards.
  • Evaluate financial results across multiple countries, currencies, and legal entities to serve the needs of multinationals operating in many countries.
  • Support better planning and forecasting with a single version of financial facts.
  • Access information through a familiar Excel interface for easy data collection or distribution.

Learn more: Financial Consolidation with Cognos 8 Controller

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