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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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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