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Call Center and SLA Monitoring Blueprint
Now your call center management can view metrics for and monitor up-to-the-moment call trends and dynamics, agent performance and service level agreement (SLA) performance with the Call Center and SLA Monitoring Blueprint.

• Evaluation Guide
• Brief
• Data Model

Strategic Investment Management Blueprint
Evaluate the impact of multiple strategic programs and funding initiatives on your finance organization. Developed in cooperation with IBM Global Business Services, this Blueprint helps finance organizations facilitate planning over a five-year period, with a full set of consolidated financial statements that offer distinct views for base growth, strategic programs, and acquisitions and divestitures, including tax and credit rating impacts.

• Evaluation Guide
• Web demo

(To obtain the data model for this Blueprint, contact the Innovation Center.)

Allocations Planning Performance Blueprint
Allocate all or part of your cost center expenses to the appropriate profit centers. Collaborate with cost-center managers to accept or reject the proposed allocations.

• Data Model (Members only) (Release 2)
• Web demo

Capital Project Planning Performance Blueprint
Manage capital project requests, their justification and the capital request approval process. (For Release 1 version 2, the Business Intelligence was developed by Genware Computer Systems, Inc. For additional information, go to www.genwarecs.com.)

Release 1 version 1: Cognos 8 Planning & Business Intelligence

• Data Model (Members only)

Release 1 version 2: Cognos 8 Planning and Genware

• Evaluation Guide
• Data Model (Members only)
• Web Demo

Initiative Planning Performance Blueprint
Use projections from other Blueprints or planning systems and actual history to drive labor or capital expense planning for new initiatives.

• Data Model (Members only) (Release 2)
• Web Demo

Capital Expenditure Planning Performance Blueprint
Plan for capital spending, while ensuring that projects adhere to established corporate guidelines.

• Evaluation Guide
• Data Model (Members only) (Release1)

Expense Planning and Control Performance Blueprint
Use projections from planning systems or other Blueprints and actual history to drive budgeting and expense planning processes.

• Evaluation Guide
• Data Model (Members only) (Release1)

Integrated Financial Statements Performance Blueprint
(formerly Strategic Financial Planning and Forecasting)
Align your financial objectives to synchronize and coordinate operational plans for your enterprise. Update financial statements, including Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flow in real-time as financial and operational drivers change.

• Evaluation Guide
• Data Model (Members only) (Release 1)

Risk Analysis Performance Blueprint
Analyze and assess your corporation’s risks associated with future performance and quantify risk mitigation strategies.

• Data Model (Members only) (Release 2)

Sales Compensation Planning Performance Blueprint
Manage your organization’s compensation targets and commission payouts, archive historical data and projections for reference/analysis and link sales compensation plans with headcount projections and integrated financials.

• Data Model (Members only) (Release 2)

Sales Planning and Forecasting Performance Blueprint
Manage your organization’s revenues, archive historical data and projections for reference/analysis and integrate the sales planning process into supply chain forecasts, headcount projections, sales compensation planning, and integrated financials.

• Evaluation Guide
• Data Model (Members only) (Release 2)

Strategic Finance Performance Blueprint
Use a systematic, Web-based process and complete performance management framework for evaluating long-range plans and strategies, analyzing scenarios, making decisions and monitoring success. Establish performance targets and guide resource allocations for operational plans and budgets for your entire enterprise.

• Evaluation Guide
• Data Model (Members only) (Release 2)
• Web Demo

Strategic Long Range Planning Performance Blueprint
Use projections from the Integrated Financial Statements Blueprint and the Initiative Planning Blueprints to assess the impact of market growth factors and strategic initiatives on corporate P/L projections over a five-year period.

• Data Model (Members only) (Release 2)
• Web Demo

Workforce Planning Performance Blueprint
(formerly referred to as Headcount and Compensation Planning)
Gain forward-looking visibility into workforce decisions at both the divisional and company levels and use headcount projections as drivers in other planning processes.

• Evaluation Guide
• Data Model (Members only) (Release 1)

Workforce Resource Management Performance Blueprint
Align worker staffing and scheduling with business drivers.

• Evaluation Guide
• Data Model (Members only) (Release 1)

*Key to IBM Cognos Performance Blueprint information assets

• Briefs describe how the planning models for each Blueprint work.
• Evaluation Guides describe the value opportunity enabled by the Blueprints, and illustrate best-practice process and information flow.
• Webinars and Web Demos highlight a particular Blueprint in detail.
• Data Models are the actual pre-defined data, process and policy software models. They are available only to Cognos Innovation Center members.
• RELEASE 1 Data Models will work with IBM Cognos Planning version 7.3 or earlier.
• RELEASE 2 Data Models will work with IBM Cognos Planning version 7.3 or higher.