IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Scorecarding

• Assign a primary owner for every metric.
• Organize and view scorecards by status to focus on objectives and performance; view them by owner to understand accountability; or view them in a strategy map to see how they fit into the corporate strategy.
• Set alerts and notifications to keep you aware of when a metric changes status.
• Embed business intelligence capabilities into your scorecards for added context and analysis.
• Manage corrective actions and initiatives from within the application.

Align decisions and tactics with strategy

• Use a metrics network and centralized data store to ensure reliable and consistent information.
• Create a metric, diagram, or scorecard once and use them wherever else they are needed to ensure consistent definitions and targets.

Implement your strategy and execute against it

• Build and deploy scorecards quickly using wizards.
• Scorecard and metric design tools reduce the time you need to create and deploy your system.
• Use menus to define threshold ranges, benchmarks, data source definition, contact names, and URLs for contextual information.
• Create strategy maps, impact analysis and cause-and-effect diagrams, and other elements of the Balanced Scorecard.

• Recalibrate targets in response to changes in performance with integrated planning capabilities.
• Browser-based, zero-footprint environment minimizes training and maintenance.
• Multilingual: metrics can be populated in any language and then displayed in users' preferred language.
• Single sign-on dialog box.
• Three- and five-state status indicators and plan vs. actual data reveal progress against targets.
• Flexible user environment: view scorecards over the Web or in PDF.