BI for IBM Cognos Capital Project Planning Performance Blueprint

Genware Computer Systems


Because planning is a critical link between strategy and execution, improving capital expenditure planning can enhance organizational performance and competitiveness.

The BI for IBM Cognos Capital Project Planning Performance Blueprint solution allows customers to align capital planning requests with strategic initiatives and corporate goals. Coupling IBM Cognos Planning with IBM Cognos BI allows for a consistent, systematic and methodical approach to planning and measuring strategic initiatives.

The BI solution can also be extended beyond the IBM Performance Blueprint to any IBM Cognos Planning application to bring the planning aspect of performance management into line with strategic plans and corporate objectives.

Benefits

  • Access data to fully participate and drive towards corporate goals and strategic initiatives.
  • Provide integration to the IBM Cognos Capital Planning Blueprint.
    Access and analyze actual and forecast capital expenditure.
  • Gather information to drive corporate decisions around capital expenditure and their causal effect on goals and strategic initiatives.
  • Provide a framework so the whole company shares a common view to achieve the same goals and strategies.
  • Measure capital expenditure performance using metrics like original versus adjusted or adjusted versus actual.

Features

For the executive-level manager, a full range of reports, queries and analyses are available. The Capital Project Planning Dashboard provides a range of reports and graphs for decision makers. Executives see graphical presentations of key metrics for review, and can drill down to greater detail as needed.

For tactical management, the BI Blueprint component provides reports, queries and multi-dimensional analysis. The Project Manager Dashboard offers a general overview of the asset classes and strategy maps tied to a project. The BI component of the Capital Planning Blueprint enables managers to make informed decisions that affect tactical goals and strategies and facilitate corporate objectives and strategies.

For the planning process contributor, a range of reports and queries is available. Although contributors have access to the request details they are allowed to see in IBM Cognos 8 Planning, the BI component to the Capital Project Planning Blueprint further enables them to focus on operational goals and understand how they facilitate both tactical and strategic goals and initiatives.

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Architecture

Dashboards allow you to measure capital expenditure performance using metrics such as adjusted amount by asset class or priority.Architecture diagram

Availability

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