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IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints


It isn’t enough to make the right software, in order to be a true partner with customers software vendors must help them find the fastest route to ROI. IBM Cognos Blueprints are just that route. IBM has partnered with customers and banking industry leaders to create Performance Blueprints.

Blueprints enable organizations to apply proven best practices quickly, with less risk, and without having to reinvent the wheel. Most important, Blueprints help reduce the total cost of ownership.

Learn about and download these blueprints:


Client Servicing Performance Blueprint
Find out how this Blueprint helps banks improve customer service and enhance profitability with timely reports, dashboards, analysis and more.  Learn how helps in the areas of customer segmentation, cross-selling, delivery of client statements, forecasting, and more. 

Relationship Pricing for Commercial Banking Performance Blueprint
Get a quick-start solution that brings discipline and consistency to pricing both credit and non-credit deals.

Risk-Adjusted Profitability Performance Blueprint
This blueprint provides a performance management framework that helps bank executives build precise multi-dimensional, product-level profitability plans and forecasts that are completely aligned with risk management, enabling greater financial planning accuracy and a stronger connection between the finance and risk organizations.

Retail Branch Performance Blueprint
Retail banks can perform detailed top-down and branch-up revenue and expense planning to ensure organization-wide alignment with strategic objectives.

Corporate Banking Customer Segment Performance Blueprint
Designed for Commercial, corporate, and investment banks to create profit and loss statements for customer segments or for large, individual corporate customers. It allows managers to report on and analyze profitability and plan initiatives to improve segment results.

Retail Banking Customer Segment Performance Blueprint
Enables retail banks to create profit and loss statements at the customer segment level and report on and analyze profitability, and helps managers plan sales and marketing initiatives to improve segment results.



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