Software for Performance Management

Integrating people, plans, metrics, and reports

Choose integrated software from the Cognos performance management system—reporting and analysis, planning, or measuring and monitoring—for any area of your organization.

Value now: Make better decisions as soon as you deploy.
Room to grow: Add new capabilities and decision areas to build your performance management capability.

Reporting and Analysis

Integrated reporting and analysis software delivers user-friendly information from all of your data sources so you can:

Align the organization with a shared, single version of the truth.
Place information in context, find trends, and spot variations, risks, and opportunities.
Understand the why? behind your results and trends

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Planning

Finance and other department managers with cost or revenue generation responsibilities use integrated planning, budgeting, and forecasting software to:

Create plans and budgets that connect, unlike spreadsheet-based systems.
Adapt plans organization-wide as business conditions change.
Engage departments outside of Finance in the planning process for greater accuracy and buy-in.

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IBM Cognos 8 Planning

Measuring and Monitoring

Integrated software for scorecards, dashboards, and financial consolidation draws on information from all of your data sources so you can:

Measure how you perform against targets and hold people accountable for them.
See trends and changes in operational and financial metrics.
Comply with regulations such as IFRS and Sarbanes-Oxley.

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Find out more about:

IBM Cognos Manufacturing Performance Blueprints
Customer Successes in Manufacturing

Additional Resources:

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Mobile demo for your BlackBerry

Online Demo

See how IBM Cognos Go! Mobile is providing manufacturing organizations like yours with the power of performance management on your mobile device.

IBM Cognos 8 Planning in the Manufacturing Industry: Technology and Best Practices for Performance

White Paper

Find out how manufacturers are using IBM Cognos Planning to create timely, reliable, and flexible plans that help decision-makers quickly identify, analyze, and forecast the impact of changes as they occur. This white paper outlines a systematic approach that combines best practices and leading-edge technology with planning activities in your organization.

Manufacturing Perspectives: The Logistics of Better Performance

Article

A collection of articles from Cognos Performance Perspectives outlining the value of performance management to manufacturers, including managing risk and the S&OP Performance Blueprint.

IBM Cognos Sales & Operations Planning Performance (S&OP) Blueprint

Online Demo

Understand proven best practices in reconciling sales and demand forecasts with supply plans.

Seven 7 Reports Every Supply Chain Executive Needs

White Paper

Learn how to improve your supply chain management strategy by asking the right questions.

Sales & Operations Planning

Podcast

Find out how manufacturers are using IBM Cognos Planning to create timely, reliable, and flexible plans that help decision-makers quickly identify, analyze, and forecast the impact of changes as they occur. This white paper outlines a systematic approach that Learn the secrets to success in sales and operations planning (S&OP), as Colin Snow of Ventana Research explains the best practices used by top manufacturing companies.

Ventana Research: Integrated Performance Planning for Manufacturers

Article

This Ventana Research article describes the Cognos S&OP Executive Review Performance Blueprint, which offers manufacturers a unified view of sales, the supply chain and pro-forma financial statements so executives can find the right balance between operational strategy and financial goals.