Innovation Center

Apply best practices to meet the unique needs of your industry
The IBM Cognos® Innovation Center for Performance Management has partnered with industry leaders to create IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints for specific industries, including banking and financial services, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, retail, and the public sector.

With these specialized Blueprints, you can apply best practices that apply to your industry quickly, with less risk—and reduce your total cost of ownership.

The Innovation Center offers Blueprints for these industries:

• Banking and financial services:

  These Blueprints consist of targeted, pre-built data, process and policy models based on proven best-practices in bank operations and financial services planning, budgeting and forecasting.

• Manufacturing:

  These Blueprints help manufacturers quickly address planning and performance management process areas that need attention.

• Oil and gas:

  This Blueprint addresses performance management in the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry. More Blueprints are on their way.

• Pharmaceuticals and life sciences:

  These Blueprints provide the fastest means for pharmaceutical and life sciences organizations to effectively align strategy and execution.

• Public sector:

  These Blueprints help improve visibility into government agencies, tie program success to budget allocation, and increase organizational responsiveness and effectiveness.

• Retail:

  These Blueprints address planning and performance management process areas that directly impact a retail organization’s ability to create business value.

Additional IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints are released to IBM Cognos Innovation Center members as they become available.

Related: IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints for functional process areas