Software for Performance Management

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

More about Reporting and Analysis software

Go directly to

• IBM Cognos 8 BI reporting
• IBM Cognos 8 BI analysis
• IBM Cognos TM1

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.

More about Planning software

Go directly to

• 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.

Additional Resources:

Retail Performance Management: Increase Visibility and Drive Profitable Growth

White Paper

Learn about the benefits of using Cognos performance management to gain deep business insight, improve decision-making, and succeed in the highly competitive retail marketplace.

Retail Perspectives: Maximize the Return on Customer

Article

Three perspectives on the retail industry. Learn how customer data drives more successful campaigns, why retailers need tighter integration with their supply chains, and how the IBM Cognos Financial Merchandise Planning Performance Blueprint can improve inventory planning.

Selecting the Right Retail Planning Solution

White Paper

This software selection guide provides some key factors to consider when evaluating enterprise planning solutions, and it makes the business case for Cognos as the best-in-class performance management system provider.

IBM Cognos Retail Store Development Planning Performance Blueprint

Online Demo

Learn how Cognos retail performance management solutions can help chains align corporate objectives with operating plans to operate more profitably and efficiently.

Retail Performance Management Podcast with JCB Partners

Podcast

An interview with Brad Smith of JCB partners. Includes a survey of current trends in the retail industry and how JCB and Cognos partner to provide a retail performance management solution to improve performance in merchandising, pricing, and other key areas and walks through a typical retail performance management engagement.

IBM Cognos Financial Merchandise Planning Blueprint: Align Merchandise Plans with Corporate Strategies, Customer Demands

Issue Paper

Learn how retail chains can meet sales objectives and profitability goals through a merchandise planning process that is synchronized with both finance and operations.

Home | Legal Notices | Privacy Statement | Site Map | Performance Management | Business Intelligence | RSS Feeds
Copyright © 2008 Cognos ULC (formerly Cognos Inc.), an IBM Company.
All rights reserved.

Cognos is a world leader in business intelligence, performance management, data integration, enterprise risk management, olap reporting, analytics software, Oracle business intelligence, and balanced scorecarding for the enterprise.