Cognos® Performance Applications
Overview

Ready-built reports, analysis, and metrics for key business functions and rapid ROI.

There are three Cognos Performance Applications and seven modules :

Application Name		Modules
Customer Analytics		Sales Accounts Receivable
Financial Analytics		Accounts Receivable General Ledger Accounts Payable
Supply Chain Analytics		Accounts Payable Inventory Procurement Production

Cognos Performance Applications improve your performance

• Create a single version of the truth -pre-built data connectors improve data integrity, quality, and accuracy. Create a single version of the truth enterprise-wide, quickly and easily.
  
  
• Leverage best practices -data warehouse configures data to answer key questions based on best business practices. Get a complete view of your performance from summary through to detail, from any perspective, or across departments.
  
  
• Short time to results -rapid deployment gives you answers to key questions in the shortest time. Pre-built reports, analysis, and metrics provide quick wins and minimize impact on your infrastructure.

• The reports, plans, and metrics that come with each module address your most important business questions, based on expert guidance from customers and other business and industry experts.
  
  
• Modules and their reports are interconnected, allowing you to investigate an issue in customer processes and link into your supply chain or financials as necessary.
  
  
• You can easily customize any of the pre-built reports and metrics in an application to suit your precise business requirements.
  
  
• You can pick one application and easily add another, or integrate the application with the other Cognos products.
  
  
• The software simplifies installation, configuration, loading data, and ongoing maintenance.
  
  
• The product architecture is ready to support any size deployment to large numbers of users.