IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints

IBM Cognos Close, Consolidate, Report (CCR) Performance Blueprint

The IBM Cognos CCR Performance Blueprint—developed jointly with Deloitte & Touche LLP—is designed to help organizations ensure process integrity and improve the quality and auditability of their financial information. It also helps deliver that information to internal and external stakeholders more quickly. The Blueprint maps each step in the financial close to the appropriate financial control activity, providing an end-to-end view of the close cycle.

• IBM Cognos Close, Consolidate, Report (CCR) Web demo
  See how best practices can improve the close, consolidate, and report processes.
• IBM Cognos CCR Business Value Guide
  The Business Value Guide explains how the Blueprint addresses gaps and weaknesses in the financial close process and optimizes the use of technology.
• IBM Cognos CCR Fact Sheet [PDF - 230 KB]
• Deloitte IQ Matters White Paper [PDF - 400 KB]

Additional Resources:

Performance & Compliance: Neither is Optional

Online Demo

Learn how to deal with the paradox of managing compliance while improving performance. This microsite offers valuable insights on how you can streamline consolidation, compliance and reporting processes - while enhancing performance management.

Financial Consolidation & Reporting for Visionary Finance Executives: IBM Cognos Controller

Online Demo

Learn best practices for: Managing the processes of consolidating financial information. Delivering external management and corporate reporting. Providing transparency to sustain compliance and performance.

Consolidation: Laying the Groundwork for Sustainable Compliance

White Paper

Laying the Groundwork for Sustainable Compliance.

Delivering financial results – with or without spreadsheets – that is the question

Web Seminar On-Demand

There is a clear distinction between organizations working with world class financial consolidation systems and those that continue to rely on spreadsheets and spreadsheet enhanced systems. The Hackett Group will present the contrast between World-Class and Peer Group companies in terms of their usage of spreadsheets for critical finance activities, and the impact that has on the cost, quality and responsiveness of the finance organization. Demonstrations and discussions will help you understand the roadmap to performance management, with introduction of Cognos Controller, the modern foundation required for renewing the automation of the close, consolidate, report process.

Performance and Compliance - Combining To Deliver Financial and Operational Insight

Web Seminar On-Demand

A key driver for improving financial consolidations is to enable actionable performance reporting. In this Webinar, we will share how best practices in reporting are critical to world class organizations, enabling better confidence and decision making. Specifically, you'll see how business intelligence enhances information communication of timely, validated financial results.

Ensuring Best Practices for Internal Controls and Financial Consolidation

Web Seminar On-Demand

Renewing the consolidation process requires organizations to evaluate, incorporate and improve as necessary their internal controls for financial data. The Hackett Group, Deloitte and Cognos will discuss and review the opportunity at hand as organizations improve their internal control environments in conjunction with automating financial consolidations.

Automating financial consolidation – The first, best step in close, consolidate, report makeover

Web Seminar On-Demand

Join us as The Hackett Group, Gary Simon, Editor of Financial Systems News and Author of “Fast Close to the Max" review key process improvements enabled through the automation of the financial consolidation process and the impact this has on the cost, quality and responsiveness of the finance organization. You’ll hear how automation in the hands of finance is the first, best step to accurately streamlining the close process, reducing data errors and facilitating timely results while supporting statutory and compliance requirements.

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