Government

U.S. State and Local Government

State and local governments use Cognos, an IBM company, to improve financial performance and public accountability in these areas:

Linking program effectiveness to budget allocations monitored through timely budget updates

Raise program effectiveness by linking people, information, and decision-making across your organization.
Measure results against your strategy at all organizational levels.
Provide consistent and timely managed reporting.
Integrate planning, budgeting, reporting, and scorecarding with your management cycle.
Measure and compare the effectiveness of community outreach programs.

Improving financial performance against defined outcomes and measurable success indicators

Consolidate different sources of financial data.
Ensure managed and production reporting is consistent and timely.
Provide all necessary compliance and reporting tools from a single source.
Offer Web-based financial analysis and administration.
Improve management of change and audit trails.
Identify and track potential fraud.
Understand the true cost of each community program.
Analyze revenues and costs for facilities individually or as a whole.

Reporting & Scorecarding in Municipal Government White Paper: Read how city and county governments are making sense of their data to show good stewardship and better serve citizens.

Learn about the City of Albuquerque’s BI extranet initiative to increase public safety.

Recruiting and retaining the right employees to maintain efficient and effective public service delivery.

Track and manage personnel skills inventories.
Deploy resources effectively and identify critical skills gaps.
Identify and retain your best people.
Empower employees with actionable information across the organization.
Centralize administration with Web-based reporting.
Ensure the security of sensitive internal and employee information, and private citizen data.

Find out more about:

IBM Cognos Government Performance Blueprints
Cognos solutions for Defense , Education, and No Child Left Behind.

Additional Resources:

IBM Cognos 8 BI Reporting

Online Demo

See real-world scenarios for casual business users and professional authors.

Government Customer Story Bundle

Success Story

Find out how public sector organizations like the US Marine Corps and the City of Albuquerque are reducing costs and making better decisions with Cognos.

Government Performance Management

White Paper

Read how Cognos performance management helps government agencies leverage information and resources to engage the workforce, boost productivity, improve efficiencies, and deliver better services to the public.

Scorecarding for the Public Sector

White Paper

Brett Knowles, one of North America's leading authorities on the Balanced Scorecard, discusses some unique public sector issues and proven solutions.

Reporting & Scorecarding in Municipal Government

White Paper

Read how city and county governments are making sense of their data to show good stewardship and better serve citizens.

CFO of the U.S. Department of Defense, Tina Jonas

Podcast

Tina Jonas speaks about good stewardship, clean audits, and the executive budget dashboard she can't do without.