Enterprise planning
View the description of information assets
Product Profitability Analytics Performance Blueprint
Uncover product level profitability in the context of operational business decisions, moving profitability management from your CFO's office to the front lines where decisions affecting profitability are really made.
Sales Performance Management for SalesForce.com Performance Blueprint
Rapidly set up and run a sales performance analytics dashboard in salesforce.com—with minimal modeling and report development. Using this dashboard, you can understand and address key sales performance perspectives.
Predictive Cross-Sell and Up-Sell Performance Blueprint
Understanding consumers is an effective way to build long and profitable customer relationships. This Blueprint provides a foundation for understanding customer buying behavior better and anticipating their purchasing intent.
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.
(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.
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
Release 1 version 2: Cognos 8 Planning and Genware
Capital Project Planning Performance Blueprint Powered by TM1
Capital Project Planning Performance Blueprint Powered by IBM Cognos Express
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.
Capital Expenditure Planning Performance Blueprint
Plan for capital spending, while ensuring that projects adhere to established corporate guidelines.
Expense Planning and Control Performance Blueprint
Create driver-based expense plans that align with corporate objectives using an intuitive and integrated planning process that resolves the challenges of lengthy expense planning cycles and disconnected plans.
Expense Planning and Control Performance Blueprint Powered by TM1
Expense Planning and Control Performance Blueprint Powered by IBM Cognos Express
Integrated Financial Planning and Forecasting 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.
Integrated Financial Planning and Forecasting Performance Blueprint Powered by TM1
Integrated Financial Planning and Forecasting Performance Blueprint Powered by IBM Cognos Express
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.
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.
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.
Strategic Finance Performance Blueprint Powered by IBM Cognos Express
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.
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.
Workforce Planning Performance Blueprint Powered by IBM Cognos Express
Workforce Resource Management Performance Blueprint
Align worker staffing and scheduling with business drivers.
*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.