This section includes chapters that cover Performance Management, an overview of the IBM Cognos 8 BI studios and roles, and Cognos 8 Planning.
Performance Management helps you to align the disparate business aspects to create a single representation to empower an organization. The book discusses the differences between: measuring & reporting; reporting & analysis; planning, budgeting, & forecasting. The How?, What?, and Why? Can all be mapped to the IBM Cognos 8 BI software that enables and automates answers.
Aligning business and technical objectives will help to enable an organization gain greater insight to their performance. It will help to create a sustainable model for moving forward with your organization’s objectives.
Dashboards are created using Report Studio, whereas Scorecards are created using Metric Studio. The book helps to clarify their usage and benefits for understanding their data.
When you implement your IBM Cognos 8 BI application you must keep users’ needs in mind. The book provides clear definitions for the primary roles and abilities for each within the IBM Cognos 8 BI studios.
The IBM Cognos 8 Planning application is a powerful tool for streamlining the planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes. The book provides a visual example of setting up the Framework Manager model extension wizard for Cognos 8 Planning on page 48.
…continued in Part 3 -- “IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide” Accessing and Using IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
…read the previous post -- Part 1 – “IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide” book review contents at a glance
