Scorecarding Software

Cognos Performance Management

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

See at-a-glance how you are doing now and as a trend against your targets. Drill-through to reports and data for detail about the scorecard metric to understand the "why" behind it.

Cognos scorecarding can improve your performance:

• Deliver at-a-glance information—Rather than sifting through many reports, scorecards let people see immediately how the company is performing in its critical areas.
• Communicate strategy and targets effectively—help your strategy succeed by expressing important information, key drivers, performance expectations, and the 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 their success.
• Connect departments—scorecard metrics are interdependent and show how one department affects another, leading to proactive cooperation among different areas.
• Enable your Balanced Scorecard.

Cognos scorecarding is a core capability of IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence. IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is the only solution that provides complete BI functionality in one product, on a single, proven architecture. It delivers seamless reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, and business event management. It makes all systems and data sources available. It simplifies your IT environment and the way everyone works with information.

The result is higher user adoption, better decisions, and a quicker response to threats and opportunities across the organization. IBM Cognos 8 BI is the clear choice for BI standardization and a cornerstone of better performance management.

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