Performance Management Software for Education

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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Business Intelligence for Higher Education
Online Demo
This demo will illustrate how Cognos can provide a complete solution for addressing reporting and analysis needs for colleges and universities that range from finance, planning and budgeting, recruitment, tuition, admissions, student retention, and alumni development.
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IBM Cognos Enrollment & Tuition Planning Performance Blueprint for Higher Education
Online Demo
View this demo to learn how to better understand and plan for changes in demand, to adopt new strategies to deal with the evolving market for education, and ultimately to assure the ongoing legacy of your institution.
Managing the Business of Education
White Paper
Read about how universities are using Cognos to gain new insights into the most effective fundraising programs; where to find the best students and professors; and understand the exact costs of curriculum.
IBM Cognos 8 Planning for Higher Education: Plan to Perform
White Paper
Find out how to use business modeling, budgeting, planning, and forecasting to deal with ineffective processes and technologies, and accurately assess market conditions.
Education Customer Story Bundle
Article
Learn how organizations such as the University of Minnesota and the Burke County Board of Education are using Cognos to save time and money, while enhancing student performance.
K12 Enterprise Planning
Online Demo
This demo shows how a school district can use Cognos performance management software to manage student achievement as well as budget for the future.
 
Education Resources
Business Intelligence for Higher Education
Online Demo
A complete solution for addressing reporting and analysis needs for colleges and universities that range from finance, planning and budgeting, recruitment, tuition etc..
Managing the Business of Education
White Paper
Effective insights into fundraising, curriculum, students and staff.
Education Customer Story Bundle
Article
Learn how leading educational institutions are getting a full view of student performance with Cognos.
12 reports for education
White Paper
Find out how school districts and boards are using performance management to make sense of their data and improve student results.
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