The United States Naval Air System Command (NAVAIR) has chosen Cognos to assist with analysing its fleet readiness and to make critical data available to senior military personnel via a business intelligence dashboard.
Cognos is the world leader in enterprise business intelligence (EBI) and corporate performance management solutions.
With the Cognos EBI Series, NAVAIR has built two critical applications that are used to support aircraft material readiness, supply and maintenance management, and component reliability and maintenance.
"Cognos delivers solutions that let defence departments gauge the readiness of equipment, personnel and systems, when and where that information is required," says David McWilliam, MD of Cognos South Africa. "The ability to unite data sources, and to provide deep analysis and a comprehensive view of operations status across all units, means that threats can be pinpointed early on, and resources can be reallocated quickly and easily to respond to crises."
Cognos automates paper-based processes and gets a handle on data that was once a collection of snapshots within the organisation. Vital information that is scattered across the company is consolidated into one big picture.
For NAVAIR, the ability to assess a situation, respond to its greatest challenges and then re-evaluate based on new information is essential. Effective decisions require complete information and achieving results requires a clearly articulated strategy.
"High-level strategy is made important to everyone through specific and measurable goals managed from a single source," McWilliam says. "Critical insights and information are shared instantly, reliably and with complete security."
With information in accessible reports and analysis, better and timelier business decisions can be made.
"Cognos`s integrated set of business intelligence capabilities is based on common framework services like security, metadata and user portals," McWilliam notes. "With Cognos`s EBI suite, organisations can select the best capability in each area of business intelligence, expand seamlessly as the company`s needs evolve and integrate business intelligence with the other components of a complete enterprise-wide performance management environment."
The Aviation Readiness model enables users to monitor and analyse readiness across all aircraft and aviation inventory. The Component Analysis model provides deeper analysis, with the ability to drill down, to analyse component readiness across the entire fleet.
"With Cognos we have the ability to access critical operations information in just minutes," says Doug Jahn, technical director of naval aviation at NAVAIR. "The ability to aggregate and analyse data to determine our level of readiness, and benchmark ourselves against pre-determined key performance indicators, has been an enabling factor in our overall Aviation Readiness Improvement programme."
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