Schools, school districts, universities and colleges use IBM Cognos performance management software to improve student performance, deliver on performance mandates, improve financial performance and enhance advancements management.
With IBM Cognos software educational institutions get:
The right technology and solutions
IBM Cognos software provides an integrated platform for education performance management. It aggregates and leverages critical data, and delivers the scorecarding, reporting, analysis and planning tools to optimize performance and accountability. With our software educational institutions can make timely, informed decisions in all areas—student performance, recruitment, endowments, program costs and more.
IBM Cognos software and services help the education sector to:
- Calculate curriculum costs, identify good fundraising programs.
- Monitor student headcount and performance, program outcomes, school reputation, national agendas and other KPIs.
- Share secure Web-based information with all stakeholders.
- Manage endowments and recruitment through driver-based planning.
- Spot high- and low-performance schools or programs.
- Map enrollment to attendance and attendance to performance.
- Speed compliance reporting.
The requisite experience
The IBM Cognos solution empowers over 1,000 institutions of higher education. Over 530 K-12 school districts and over 20,000 schools rely on Cognos to deliver optimal education programs and improve student performance for over 12 million American children and young adults. Thirteen state departments of education and the U.S. Federal Department of Education trust their performance to IBM Cognos software.

