Cognos Metrics Manager

The Enterprise Solution for creating, managing, presenting and delivering an organisation's key performance metrics.

With Cognos Metrics Manager, organizations can deliver goal-driven metrics to every desktop. Users can monitor, analyze, and report on time-critical information through the creation, management, presentation, and delivery of cross-functional metrics.

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Cognos Metrics Manager can model and track any set of performance indicators for Global 2000 enterprises. It links an organization's goals with employee performance and accountability. With Cognos Metrics Manager, users are self-sufficient, and can readily see how the business is progressing against its strategy. They can set priorities for their own actions. They can understand how their decisions affect the company's performance.

This scorecarding approach, enabled by Cognos Metrics Manager, enables organizations to monitor their business by tracking more than just financial measurements. Key performance indicators (KPIs) such as employee satisfaction, supplier scorecards, and customer profitability, can be integrated into your management picture. These indicators draw on a broad range of data sources from many different areas of your business. Cognos Metrics Manager can handle them all.

Tightly integrated with the Cognos Series 7 BI framework, Cognos Metrics Manager gives decision-makers the rich functionality they need, including visualizations, reports and analysis. This integration creates a collaborative decision-making environment for business users. It enables the effective sharing and rapid distribution of information tied to key corporate performance management indicators. Cognos Metrics Manager can also use third-party data sources and cubes.

KEY PRODUCT BENEFITS

Flexible, open methodology support -flexible software lets you model metrics and their relationship to each other based on any standard or proprietary scorecarding and management methodology you already use.

Summary views from an easy-to-use interface - Cognos Metrics Manager displays summary views based on the Balanced Scorecard and other methodologies, and users can drill down to detailed metrics and history.

Analyze issues to the required depth - The rich Cognos scorecarding environment, through integration with Cognos reporting and analysis products such as PowerPlay and Impromptu, lets you analyze performance issues to understand what drives a metric's change, in order to make better decisions.

Combined views of disparate measures - Recognizing that many users require cross-functional metrics, Metrics Manager uniquely consolidates disparate measures from different functional areas and data sources.

Easy to deploy - Zero-footprint architecture means users and administrators do not require software installed on their desktop, making global intranet or extranet use and deployment easier.

KEY TECHNICAL FEATURES

Metrics definition from disparate data sources - Cognos Metrics Manager can import data from any source.
Any vendor's data sources, relational databases, Excel files, flat files, user-entered values, and Cognos business intelligence sources can provide data to populate and support your scorecard.

Simplified metrics creation - Administrators can define a metric once for use in any scorecard in their organization. Centrally defined KPIs ensure a consistent version of the truth and priority for all users. Administrator menus let you define all aspects of a metric: threshold ranges, benchmarks, data source
definition, contact names, and URL links for contextual information in any format.

Flexible metrics building - Cognos Metrics Manager lets you control the specific metrics or KPIs you wish to track, how they are combined, what constitutes good and poor performance for each indicator, and links to supporting reports.

Central metrics store - Cognos Metrics Manager historical data, as well as scorecard, diagrams, and metric definitions are maintained in an industry-standard relational database.

Application access and security - Integration with the Cognos access and security foundation means users can be assigned to classes, which determine the scorecards and metrics they can access through a simple and single sign-on dialogue box.

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