About Us Cognos Consulting Cognos Training Product Info Trainer's Talk Press Releases Online Seminars Newsletter Contact Us	Cognos Product Information Cognos Enterprise Planning Series Enterprise performance planning dramatically speeds up the mechanics of the planning process. You can build business models in days rather than months, letting you test scenarios and reduce risk. You can turn annual budgets into rolling forecasts that give more accurate visibility into future operating performance. Cognos delivers enterprise performance planning through the integrated capabilities of the Cognos Management Series. You gain better visibility of your business plans and the budgets that drive them, employee accountability through distributed scorecard metrics, and information reliability through a shared financial framework of data. The Cognos Management Series enables the management cycle by bringing together: Planning, budgeting, & forecasting Take your organization's overall strategy and break it down into the activities, decisions, and initiatives necessary to achieve it. Consolidations & financial reporting Cut consolidation and reporting cycles to spend more time on in depth analysis and enable more flexible, dynamic planning. Financial analytics Bring together the detailed transaction information for accounts receivable, accounts payable, and general ledger to meet operational financial reporting and analysis needs across the company. Enterprise Dashboards and Scorecards Cognos scorecards and dashboards deliver the at-a-glance and immediate understanding of where things stand that is the heart of performance monitoring. Both can associate multiple indicators into a single metric. Both are highly engaging, visual presentations of complex data. As integrated capabilities of Cognos BI Series 7, you can drill through a scorecard or dashboard indicator to analyze the reports that provide more detail about the metric. Scorecards and dashboards communicate your key business metrics, measure your progress against them, and help determine what actions you need to take. Enterprise Scorecards Cognos Metrics Manager lets you create and distribute scorecards across the enterprise. With clear metrics that are easy to navigate and understand, people can see the company's strategy expressed in concrete terms. They understand how each indicator affects others and can follow the trail from a high-level indicator to those that underpin it. They see how they are tracking against key metrics, and how these metrics affect overall corporate plans and performance. Cognos Metrics Manager is well-suited to supporting performance initiatives such as the Balanced Scorecard. Enterprise Dashboards Cognos Visualizer delivers highly graphical dashboards for at-a-glance understanding of multiple, interrelated metrics. It turns tabular reports into gauges, dials, maps and other intuitive charts and displays. Problems in key business areas are immediately obvious, and not dependent on employees reading through several reports to find them. Cognos Visualizer is well-suited to supporting quality initiatives such as Six Sigma Cognos ReportNet The world of query and reporting tools will never be the same from this point on. Cognos ReportNet is the new standard for next generation query and reporting. Cognos ReportNet is the only reporting solution that offers world class: Coverage - All the users and applications (e.g. ad hoc, managed, production) with a single solution and vendor Scale - To hundreds of thousands of users Production - Delivery on create -> deploy -> modify lifecycle Environment - Open, flexible, leverage of existing investments The value proposition is clear: Unrivaled Enterprise Reporting Coverage Unparalleled Openness, Flexibility & Scalability Complete, Robust Production Reporting Enterprise Business Intelligence Business intelligence (BI) takes the volume of data your organization collects and stores, and turns it into meaningful information that people can easily use. With this information in accessible reports, people can make better and timelier business decisions in their everyday activities. Cognos Business Intelligence Series 7 Cognos Business Intelligence Series 7 is integrated software that delivers all of the BI capabilities organizations require to turn their data into meaningful information. Its greatest value for both IT and business users is that as information needs evolve, organizations can easily expand their use of business intelligence with one vendor. IT doesn't have to worry about integration issues, and users don't have to learn new systems. Cognos Business Intelligence Series 7 is easy to use, with all reporting and analysis capabilities accessible from one Web-based portal. Users can select reports, customize them, analyze information, and share information with the same facility as using the Web. For IT departments, Cognos BI Series 7 is easy to deploy and administer, and is built for the demands of enterprise-scale environments. Cognos Analytic Applications Cognos offers an integrated set of Analytic Applications based on its Cognos Series 7 architecture. These applications come with pre-built reports, performance indicators, and connections with underlying data sources from ERP vendors. They package reporting and analysis, score carding, and planning capabilities for the areas of customer, supply chain, and financial/operational analysis. Cognos Analytic Applications offer quick time to results, and a BI foundation that can be easily customized with Cognos business intelligence technology. For more information on Cognos please call: 1-888-394-1664 or Contact us online