Innovation Center

Turn crafted strategies into plans, budgets and forecasts with help from experts
Working with some of the best enterprise planners in the business, the IBM Cognos® Innovation Center for Performance Management develops—and constantly refines—best practices in enterprise planning and helps drive those practices in customer organizations.

The Enterprise Planning practice in the IBM Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management is a forum and resource for executives and senior managers in finance. This community of business professionals, technology experts and industry thought leaders creates and shares advanced strategies for enterprise planning—providing you with answers and solutions to the most pressing enterprise planning challenges.

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IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints
Developed in collaboration with top-performing customers and performance management experts, IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints are pre-defined data, process and policy models that address functional process areas, including enterprise planning, and the needs of specific industries.

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From the enterprise planning resource center

• Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting: Software Evaluation and Selection Guide (140KB)

  Use a systematic approach to select software for your planning, budgeting and forecasting needs. Read how to combine today's best practices with leading-edge technology.

• Forecasting in Turbulent Times

  Join Tom Willman of the Hackett group and get the tools and disciplines to transform your forecasting procedures in this CFO.com webinar. Learn best-practices in forecasting, how to overcome barriers to change and about technologies to help you sustain a renewed forecasting process.

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