Cognos Performance Management
Advancing Best Practices—
The Cognos Innovation Center
The Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management is an exclusive forum and resource center for Cognos customers and partners. It was established to advance the understanding and encourage the adoption of proven techniques, technologies and best practices in performance management.
Staffed globally by experts in technology, planning, finance, and business intelligence, the Innovation Center partners with more than 1,000 Cognos customers, academics, and industry thought leaders. The Innovation Center:
- Helps organizations streamline and transform critical management processes, cut costs, boost productivity, and increase management visibility into operations.
- Provides exclusive access to case studies, issue papers, and implementation roadmaps.
- Offers seminars, roundtable discussions, and tele-conferences where members can exchange ideas with other business professionals and leading industry thinkers.
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Performance Blueprints—Putting Best Practices into Action
In collaboration with top-performing customers and performance management experts, the Innovation Center has developed a large—and growing—suite of Performance Blueprints. These pre-defined data, process, and policy models help organizations speed software implementations, reduce risk, and drive faster return on investment.
Performance Blueprints are available to address a number of essential functional process areas. These include strategic finance, expense planning and control, capital project planning, sales forecasting, workforce planning and more. Blueprints have also been created to meet the unique needs of specific industries such as banking and financial services, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and retail.
Learn more: Performance Blueprints
Advancing Business Intelligence Competency
Business intelligence is an important factor in driving and managing performance. The Innovation Center helps bring together the processes and the people from both business and IT to promote business intelligence competence throughout the organization.
The BI Competency section of the Innovation Center investigates a variety of topics pertaining to successful BI practices and shares insights on key areas of interest with its members.
Learn more: Building BI competency
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