Cognos 8 Planning

Overview

Performance management begins with enterprise planning. And best-in-class performance begins with best-in-class enterprise planning software from Cognos.

Even for companies with the most complex business models, Cognos 8 Planning provides integrated operational and financial planning in real time, for immediate visibility into resource requirements and future business results.

Integrated planning software helps you build a foundation for higher performance across the enterprise.

• Define your goals —Create a clear-cut strategy for achieving best-in-class status.
• Plan for performance —Turn strategy into discrete plans and budgets for employees and external partners.
• Engage the organization —Provide real-time feedback to planning process participants.
• Connect operations and finance —Build strategic plans that maximize operational effectiveness and inform both operational and financial plans.
• Gain greater flexibility —Realign plans quickly as conditions change.
• Understand results —Manage performance by integrating your planning with industry-leading Cognos reporting and analysis.

Product Highlights

• Cross-enterprise security for complete access control and single sign-on.
• Scales to thousands of participants.
• Performance management-enabled with integrated reporting,scorecarding,dashboards, andanalysis.
• Distributed administration shares responsibility for maintaining enterprise plans.
• Built for continuous planning —daily, weekly, or monthly.
• Synchronizes and manages connected enterprise plans that link operational effectiveness and financial performance.
• Reflects cross-enterprise business activity, not just finance.
• Flexible deployment with a Web browser or Microsoft Excel interface.

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