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Overview

 

Align tactics with strategy and monitor performance with scorecarding.

IBM® 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 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 and more.
  • Integrated collaboration capabilities improve decision-making.
  • Proven scalability and performance.
  • Certified by the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative.

Features and benefits

IBM® Cognos® Metrics Manager provides an 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, Microsoft® Excel® files, flat files, user-entered values and more.

  • 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 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

  • Certified by the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative.

  • 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.
 
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