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Corporate Performance Management
Drive and Plan your Business. Enterprise
Planning communicates a common purposes throughout the organisation.
It’s result is better strategic and operational plans
and minimal failures or rework.
Financial Executives today are faced with a myriad of challenges
in trying to accurately predict and communicate operational
and financial plans to management for fast and effective decision-making.
These challenges often include:
• Inability
to collect, store, consolidate and report relevant information
on a timely basis
• Lack of a cohesive budgeting
and planning methodology and the processes and systems in
place to execute that methodology effectively
•
Lack of coordination and communication amongst the various
participants in the budgeting and planning process
• Inability to react quickly to changing market
conditions
Focus Strategies and Solutions, a Cognos Premier Partner, uses Cognos Planning to implement
a solution that addresses these very issues and supports an
environment where multiple decision makers can engage in the
planning process simultaneously.
Key Features
• Top-down planning with bottom-up budgeting and
forecasting
• Rolling forecasts
• Workflow
• Interlinked Profit and Loss, Balance
Sheet, and Cash Flow models Multi-currency support
• User-defined trending methods
• Calculation
engine to model assumptions, allocation, KPI, etc.
• "What-if" analysis
With Focus Strategies and Solutions' implementation of the Cognos Planning solution,
you can centrally manage and collaborate on every step of
the budgeting and planning process. Decision makers create,
own and communicate detailed plans, calculations and assumptions,
across the enterprise, improving user participation and data
integrity.
Benefits
•
Create a global community of users to participate in a web-based
planning and reporting process
• Streamline
the entire budgeting process to ensure that decision makers
have timely access to critical business information
• Forecast using actual data to see the effect of proposed
changes on the entire business model
• Provide
integrated workflow to allow planners and management to collaborate
at each stage of the planning process
Focus Strategies and Solutions' implementation of the Cognos Planning solution is
designed to take the traditionally static budgeting process
to a collaborative, real-time and continuous state.
Monitor your Business. Enterprise Scorecarding
using a tool like Cognos Metrics Manager to communicate a
common set of priorities throughout the organisation. It’s
result is better understanding and management of strategic
and operational plans.
Understand and Report on your Business. Enterprise
Business Intelligence communicates a common framework for
decisions throughout the organisation. It’s result I
better decisions to enact the strategic and operational plans.
Information is a business’ lifeblood, with new data
generated every second of every day. Your organization is
virtually awash in information generated by and stored in
disparate systems throughout the enterprise. The irony is
that, amid this data overload, you never seem to have the
information you need when you need it to make informed decisions.
Focus Strategies and Solutions can help you create a Business
Intelligence (BI) strategy and then architect, develop, and
deploy a tailored end-to-end, Web-enabled solution that helps
you capture relevant data from multiple sources and gain greater
visibility into your business.
Using a proven methodology, we can help you build a total
BI architecture that ensures data consistency and accuracy
throughout your entire organization and enhances the quality
of reporting and decision-making.
We offer a full range of business and technology integration
services needed for an end-to-end BI solution based on your
unique needs. Our BI services include:
• BI
Assessment and Planning – charting the high-level
data integration requirements and creating the conceptual
architecture and strategic road map for integrating BI into
your existing business processes
• BI Environment
Design and Build – designing and constructing an end-to-end
BI environment, from data extraction and transformation, to
reporting and analytics, to portal design and development,
while also providing training and knowledge transfer
• BI Health Check and Knowledge Transfer – Ongoing
periodic review of your existing BI design and deployment,
with a recommendation report deliverable, and optionally,
the implementation of the design, configuration and process
changes
• BI Tool Evaluation and Deployment
– recommending and implementing “best fit”
technologies based on your long-term business strategy and
end-user information requirements
Focus Strategies and Solutions has first hand experience with all categories of BI
solutions, including:
• Portal-based executive
dashboards
• Enterprise Reporting and Analytics
(OLAP)
• KPI balanced scorecards
•
Data warehouses / Data marts
• Intranet and
Extranet (customer facing) BI Portals
• Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Solutions (See
Enterprise Planning Capability Statement)
Find out how Focus Strategies and Solutions can help you turn your data into real
Business Intelligence.
Click here to read some case
studies
Contact us to discuss CPM further
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