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The Cognos Performance Management Roadmap

Step 1 - Automate the process Step 2 - Drive best-practices Step 3 - Extend planning beyond finance Step 4 - ADVANCE performance management for strategy execution

DRIVE best practices

Once your budgeting process is automated, you can begin to make finance a more active partner in the management of the enterprise. Using best practices such as driver-based planning and rolling forecasts, you can respond to changing business conditions with speed and flexibility. You can question assumptions, alter plans, and adapt forecasts, and then share decisions and changes instantaneously with all the people who need to know.

You’ll drive more reliable decision support information, which enables confident understanding of actual performance and supports a forward-looking view of the business.

WHY drive best practices?
Best Practices in Enterprise Planning – Whitepaper
"Useful Budgets Is Not an Oxymoron" – Whitepaper by David Axson, Author and Co-founder of The Hackett Group
"Planning and Forecasting: Use Continuous Planning and Rolling Forecasts to Support Adaptive Management" - Article by Jeremy Hope, Co-founder of Beyond Budgeting Round Table
HOW to drive best practices?
Best Practices in Enterprise Planning - Online Demo
Solutions for the Office of Finance - Brochure
IBM Cognos Innovation Center - Brochure
Q&A with IBM Cognos software
What is the Business Value?
Hollister – Case Study
Actavis Pharmaceutical – Case Study