Global organisations are using Cognos business intelligence (BI), to drive forward their corporate performance scorecarding initiatives. With over 300 000 scorecarding and dashboarding licences in deployment, executives and managers worldwide are using Cognos to better monitor and manage enterprise performance.
Cognos Series 7 offers broad-based support for quality methodologies like Six Sigma, the rigorous performance measurement system designed to drive continuous process improvements toward a goal of zero defects in products and services. With robust and easy to design scorecards and dashboards for Six Sigma and other quality methodologies, Cognos Series 7 allows organisations to easily create performance scorecards so individuals and groups can see precisely how they are tracking against management goals.
"Few suppliers in the BI market can closely marry performance scorecarding and dashboarding technologies with enterprise BI reporting and analysis. Cognos, by presenting relevant business information in a graphical scorecard, allows decision-makers to transform raw business data into visual displays that get straight to the heart of a business issue," says Robert Moran, vice-president and managing director, Data Knowledge & Analytics, Aberdeen Group.
The Cognos solution`s `open methodology` approach ensures customers can implement any of a number of quality/performance initiatives including Balanced Scorecard, ISO 9000, EFQM and Total Quality Management (TQM).
Organisations from healthcare, financial services, the public sector and manufacturing are using Cognos dashboarding and scorecarding solutions to link individual execution with overall business strategy across the enterprise, fulfilling a critical element of effective corporate performance management (CPM).
A consulting partner to the US Navy and US Air Force, Fuentez Systems Concepts, based in Charleston, SC, delivers large-scale BI solutions to organisations like the US Coast Guard. Today there are 35 000 users of Cognos via nationwide intranet at the US Coast Guard. Users access mission-critical information through performance scorecards, analyses, reports, and multi-metric dashboardings such as maps across a highly scalable Web-based Cognos system. At peak periods, the Web-based Cognos intranet can service more than 1 000 concurrent users with split-second response times.
"Cognos is at the forefront of the scorecarding revolution, with a strong solution that is continuing to gain marketplace momentum. The Global 2000 has embraced Cognos Series 7 to monitor, analyse and report on key business drivers," says Dave Laverty, senior vice-president, marketing, Cognos. "With Cognos multi-metric dashboards and performance scorecards, decision-makers achieve immediate insight, then drill into the relevant reports and analysis all from an integrated, single system. The result is better decision-making."
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Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence (BI), delivers software that helps companies improve business performance by enabling effective decision-making at all levels of the organisation. A forerunner in defining the BI software category, Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage corporate performance management (CPM) achieved through the strategic application of BI on an enterprise scale.
CPM lets organisations measure execution against business strategy to ensure the two are aligned at all levels across the enterprise. Cognos provides a framework for CPM that links people, information, and decision-making processes throughout the organisation, and enables the complete management cycle with integrated software for planning, budgeting, reporting, analysis and scorecarding.
Cognos` framework for CPM includes:
* Cognos Series 7, which provides an enterprise-scale BI framework supporting a full suite of BI tools that deliver query and reporting, analysis, scorecarding, visualisation, and event detection capabilities.
* A common CPM data foundation model that encapsulates business best practices, integrates a company`s business performance measures, and leverages enterprise data sources.
* Enterprise analytic applications that deliver out-of-the-box, predefined, integrated reporting and analysis across major business functions.
* Cognos Finance, a strategic enterprise planning and budgeting application that supports the management cycle and enables finance professionals to manage all core financial processes within one environment.
Cognos serves more than 19 000 customers in over 120 countries. Cognos business intelligence solutions and services are also available from more than 3 000 worldwide partners and resellers. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com.