State and local governments use IBM Cognos software to improve financial performance and public accountability in these areas:
Linking program effectiveness to budget allocations monitored through timely budget updates
- Raise program effectiveness by linking people, information, and decision-making across your organization.
- Measure results against your strategy at all organizational levels.
- Provide consistent and timely managed reporting.
- Integrate planning, budgeting, reporting and scorecarding with your management cycle.
- Measure and compare the effectiveness of community outreach programs.
Improving financial performance against defined outcomes and measurable success indicators
- Consolidate different sources of financial data.
- Ensure managed and production reporting is consistent and timely.
- Provide all necessary compliance and reporting tools from a single source.
- Offer Web-based financial analysis and administration.
- Improve management of change and audit trails.
- Identify and track potential fraud.
- Understand the true cost of each community program.
- Analyze revenues and costs for facilities individually or as a whole.
Recruiting and retaining the right employees to maintain efficient and effective public service delivery.
- Track and manage personnel skills inventories.
- Deploy resources effectively and identify critical skills gaps.
- Identify and retain your best people.
- Empower employees with actionable information across the organization.
- Centralize administration with Web-based reporting.
- Ensure the security of sensitive internal and employee information, and private citizen data.
