IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints

IBM Cognos Management & Financial Reporting Performance Blueprint

The IBM Cognos MFR Performance Blueprint is designed to increase efficiency in the financial consolidation process and enable timely distribution of performance reports to business managers, who are often underserved with business performance information critical for decision making. The Blueprint’s pre-built library of easy-to-configure performance reports helps simplify and accelerate deployment.

• IBM Cognos MFR Web demo
  This brief, on-line demonstration shows how the Blueprint utilizes proven best practices in financial management and control.
• IBM Cognos MFR Business Value Guide
  The Business Value Guide explains how the Blueprint helps increase efficiency in financial consolidation and provides timely distribution of performance reports to business managers.
• IBM Cognos MFR Application Brief
  The Application Brief shows how IBM Cognos 8 Controller and IBM Cognos 8 BI work together to provide enterprise-level financial management and control capabilities including reporting, analysis, metrics, and event management.

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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