It isn't enough to make the right software. In order to be a true partner with customers, software vendors must help them find the fastest route to ROI. IBM Cognos Blueprints are just that route. IBM partners with customers and banking industry leaders to create an entire series of IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints for banking.
Blueprints enable organizations to apply proven best practices quickly, with less risk and without having to reinvent the wheel. Most important, Blueprints help reduce the total cost of ownership.
Learn about and download these Blueprints:
The IBM Cognos Relationship Pricing for Commercial Banking Performance Blueprint
Learn how this Blueprint can provide a quick-start solution that brings discipline and consistency to pricing both credit and non-credit deals. Find out how it further supports relationship pricing and analysis with the ability to combine existing deals with proposed deals, and evaluate risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC) on any potential deal.
The Client Servicing Performance Blueprint
Increase customer satisfaction and service for your clients. Use the Wealth Manager Dashboard to view assets being managed, most important accounts and current market news. Review detailed statement information with pixel-perfect formatting with Statement Reporting. Take advantage of Self-Service and Extranet capabilities such as full portal integration, holdings, recent activity and much more.
The IT Cost Transparency Blueprint
Cost transparency provides a business with three things: a catalog of products that specifies features, prices and service levels; bills showing the assets consumed by these products and the cost of their consumption; and management reports that roll up total costs by product type and business unit.
The IBM Cognos Risk-Adjusted Profitability Performance Blueprint
Find out how the IBM Cognos Risk-Adjusted Profitability Performance Blueprint provides a performance management framework that helps bank executives build precise, multi-dimensional, product-level profitability plans and forecasts that are completely aligned with risk management, enabling greater financial planning accuracy and a stronger connection between the finance and risk organizations.
Retail Branch Performance Blueprint
Manage branch profitability planning, analysis and reporting by product and customer segment with an extremely high level of precision. Top-down and bottom-up branch planning help ensure alignment with strategic objectives.
Corporate Banking Customer Segment Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint enables commercial, corporate and investment banks to create profit and loss statements for customer segments or for large, individual corporate customers. It also allows managers to report on and analyze profitability and plan initiatives to improve segment results.
Retail Banking Customer Segment Performance Blueprint
This blueprint enables retail banks to create profit and loss statements at the customer segment level and report on and analyze profitability. It also helps managers plan sales and marketing initiatives to improve segment results.

