Corporate Performance Management Powered by IBM Cognos

July 27, 2009

"Powered by IBM Cognos" is a program enlisting partners to offer and deliver performance management solutions for CPM sweet spots to customer worldwide. Charter members of this ecosystem include Accenture, Aviana, BearingPoint, Deloitte, JCB Partners, JSC Global Solutions, Redwood, SSA, and Vaultus. Many more are underway.

Industry Solutions: Every industry has a number of specific challenges that are "sweet spots" for corporate performance management. Cognos and partners are delivering these sweet spots.

Initial successes include:

Public Sector Performance Measurement Solution—BearingPoint offers a Cognos-powered solution set for measuring the operational and financial processes used in the public service. It lets public sector organizations plan, budget, distribute, execute, monitor and report on the information throughout the department.
Mortgage business performance—The Aviana-Cognos Solution helps mortgage industry decision-makers analyze reliable, timely information across multiple regions, brokers, products and data feeds.
Restaurant and hospitality industries performance—JCB Partners' Hospitality & Restaurant Practice Group offers a CPM road map that provides decision makers with timely, accurate, and actionable information. It includes key performance indicators, scorecards, reports, analysis cubes, planning models for revenue, expense and capital.
Interactive Risk Management Analysis and Reporting—JSC Global Solutions and Cognos deliver accurate and timely information, analysis, and reports tailored specifically for insurance and risk management professionals.
Applied BI for the legal industry—Redwood Analytics offers solutions for legal firms on mergers, strategic finance such as client profitability, and more.

Enterprise performance solutions: These are more general and applicable to many companies and industries rather than specific to one.

Initial partner solutions include:

Supply Chain Performance Accelerator™—The joint Cognos and Deloitte solution allows customers to implement effective supply chain planning, monitoring, and execution solutions that optimize supply chain performance across their extended enterprise.
Performance Management Applications—Using the Cognos technology platform, SSA delivers solutions for financial reporting, driver-based budgeting, operational reporting, and scorecards.
Mobile Worker Applications—Receive and navigate dashboards, forecasts, and reports on your BlackBerry with Vaultus Mobile Technologies. Extend performance technologies, information, and impact beyond normal boundaries.