Cognos Metrics Manager

IBM® Cognos® Metrics Manager provides an intuitive view of your business

• Three-and five-state status indicators and plan vs. actual data reveal progress against targets.
• View metrics individually, by owner or by project.
• Flexible user environment: view scorecards over the Web or in PDF.
• Metrics watch list: users can be notified by email or on their PDA when a metric changes status or value.
• Personalized column display: show or hide information and add custom benchmark columns.

Centralized business content

• Build metrics from disparate or cross-functional data sources: relational databases, business intelligence sources, Microsoft® Excel® files, flat files, user-entered values and more.
• Simplified metrics creation: use menus to define threshold ranges, benchmarks, data source definition, contact names and URLs for contextual information.
• Centrally defined KPIs ensure a consistent version of the truth and priority for all users.
• Maintain historical data, scorecards, diagrams and definitions in a central relational database.

Guided decision-making

• Guided analysis pathways put performance in context: link to live dashboards, business intelligence reports, SCM or CRM systems or Web sites.
• Integrated business intelligence software let you analyze issues to the required depth.
• Integrated planning lets you recalibrate targets in response to changes in performance.

Enterprise-ready architecture

• Browser-based, zero-footprint environment minimizes training and maintenance.
• Single sign-on dialog box.
• Multilingual: metrics can be populated in any language and then displayed in users' preferred language.

Balanced Scorecard-ready

• Certified by the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative.
• Strategy maps display key linkages and communicate goals.
• Impact analysis and process diagrams display cause-and-effect relationships.
• Build scorecards using leading and lagging indicators.