Software for Performance Management

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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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.
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Serving up profits
Fact Sheet
Learn how accurate plans, timely reforecasts, and effective decision-making deliver competitive advantage and better results for Quiznos and Ruth’s Chris Steak House.
Retail Customer Story Bundle
Success Story
Find out how leading retailers such as Quiznos and Harrah’s are reducing costs and making better decisions with Cognos.
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 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.
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.
 
Retail Resources
Financial Workbench and Scorecard
Online Demo
Learn how to create a dynamic retail planning environment.
The value of integrated planning
Podcast
Learn why retailers need a robust and integrated planning process to improve productivity.
Retailers' No. 1 Tech Priority Is Business Intelligence
Article
An Aberdeen Group survey finds that BI tools can improve retailers' customer intelligence, cut wasteful spending and increase gross margins.
Quiznos
Success Story
Learn how Cognos helped serve up higher performance at Quiznos
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