How does Cognos approach corporate performance management?
The Cognos corporate performance management solution depends on three interlinked capabilities-enterprise planning to drive performance, enterprise scorecarding to monitor performance against plan, and enterprise business intelligence to report and analyze issues for maximum effectiveness. Cognos is the first vendor to deliver a comprehensive framework for CPM by offering proven products that support every part of the process. In our approach to CPM, we see as critical the combination of end-user control and the ability to deploy across the entire enterprise. It’s vital to regularly engage the people closest to the business, giving those at the front lines a feeling that they are personally connected to plans and performance. With Cognos CPM solutions the executive team, including the CFO, can reach across the organization and engage each department in the performance management cycle-planning, budgeting, forecasting, scorecarding, analysis, and reporting. Cognos CPM solutions help mak