Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

Scorecarding

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IBM Cognos BI scorecarding

Scorecarding software helps you align your teams and tactics with strategy, communicate goals consistently and monitor performance against targets.

Create a metric, diagram or scorecard once and then distribute widely to ensure consistent scorecarding definitions and targets.
Use a centralized data store and metrics network to ensure reliable information.
Create strategy maps, impact analysis and cause-and-effect diagrams, and other elements of the Balanced Scorecard.

Build and deploy scorecards quickly using wizards.
Use menus to define threshold ranges, benchmarks, data source definitions, contact names and URLs for contextual information.
Deploy scorecard and metric design tools to reduce the time needed to create and deploy your system.

Assign a primary owner for every metric for greater accountability.
Organize and view scorecards by status to focus on objectives and performance.
View scorecards in a strategy map to see how they fit into corporate strategy.
Set events and alerts to keep you aware of changes in metric status.
Embed business intelligence capabilities into your scorecards for added context and analysis.
Manage corrective actions and initiatives from within the application.

Use scorecard portlets to access and communicate scorecard content and encourage broader use throughout your organization.
Populate metrics in any language and then display in users' preferred language.
Hover over scorecard impact diagrams and instantly receive important metric information for you to act on without having to click anywhere to find it.
Add new strategic objectives and supporting metrics to scorecards and strategy maps without assistance from IT.

Recalibrate targets in response to changes in performance with integrated planning capabilities.
Provide quick access with single sign-on dialog box.
Use three and five-state status indicators and plan vs. actual data to reveal progress against targets.