Cognos Metrics Manager

Overview

Align tactics with strategy and monitor performance with scorecarding.

Cognos Metrics Manager improves your performance

• Greater efficiency—align tactics with strategy to use resources effectively.
• Increased accountability—assign owners for each metric and responsibility for performance.
• Increased focus—concentrate on priorities and eliminate distractions.
• Improved communication—communicate results and actions taken to manage performance.
• Improved collaboration—use metrics to link together people, departments, and processes.

Product Highlights

• Cascading scorecards ensure consistent focus across divisions and departments.
• Central metrics store maintains commonly shared definitions, metrics, and data.
• Complete integration with Cognos business intelligence and enterprise planning.
• Complete integration with third-party data, applications, and information.
• Simple and streamlined metrics creation process.
• Easy-to-use, zero-footprint Web interface for users and administrators.
• Supports any management methodology: Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma, etc.
• Integrated collaboration capabilities improve decision-making.
• Proven scalability and performance.
• Certified by the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative.

Features and Benefits

Intuitive view of your business

• Three- and five-state status indicators and plan vs. actual data reveal progress against targets.
• View metrics individually, by owner, or by project.
• Flexible user environment: view scorecards over the Web or in PDF.
• Metrics watch list: users can be notified by email or on their PDA when a metric changes status or value.
• Personalized column display: show or hide information and add custom benchmark columns.

Centralized business content

• Build metrics from disparate or cross-functional data sources: relational databases, business intelligence sources, Excel files, flat files, user-entered values, etc.
• Simplified metrics creation: use menus to define threshold ranges, benchmarks, data source definition, contact names, and URLs for contextual information.
• Centrally defined KPIs ensure a consistent version of the truth and priority for all users.
• Maintain historical data, scorecards, diagrams, and definitions in a central relational database.

Guided decision-making

• Guided analysis pathways put performance in context: link to live dashboards, business intelligence reports, SCM or CRM systems, or Web sites.
• Integrated business intelligence software let you analyze issues to the required depth.
• Integrated enterprise planning lets you recalibrate targets in response to changes in performance.

Enterprise-ready architecture

• Browser-based, zero-footprint environment minimizes training and maintenance.
• Single sign-on dialog box.
• Multilingual: metrics can be populated in any language and then displayed in users' preferred language.

Balanced Scorecard-ready

• Strategy maps display key linkages and communicate goals.
• Impact analysis and process diagrams display cause-and-effect relationships.
• Build scorecards using leading and lagging indicators.