Scorecarding
Scorecarding is a key capability within Cognos 8 Business Intelligence, a single product that provides complete BI capabilities on a proven architecture.
Scorecarding helps you align your teams and tactics with strategy; communicate goals consistently, and monitor performance against targets.
Ensure ownership and accountability for performance
Align decisions and tactics with strategy
Implement your strategy and execute against it
Simple deployment and administration
View Cognos Business Intelligence 8: Scorecarding Factsheet
Scorecarding helps you align your teams and tactics with strategy; communicate goals consistently, and monitor performance against targets.
Ensure ownership and accountability for performance
- Assign a primary owner for every metric.
- Organise 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 centralised 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.
Simple deployment and administration
- Recalibrate targets in response to changes in performance with integrated planning capabilities.
- Browser-based, zero-footprint environment minimises 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.
View Cognos Business Intelligence 8: Scorecarding Factsheet