1. BI Performance Management

2. Business Issues Too much information: Create confusions Multiple version of Truth: Lack of Trusted information: Incomplete, outdated information Lack of Agility: Root of the problem is fully integrated data infrastructure.

3. Possible solution The ability to easily plug BI/PM elements into corporate service oriented platform (SOA) Clearly defined goals, support, and a clear corporate mission must be in place.

4. Critical factors affect success with BI/PM solutions Data must have an Information Agenda. Infrastructure must create a total solution stack. BI/PM technologies selected must support the underlying infrastructure. Corporate vision and execution must have a plan and convey it to the enterprise.

5. Critical Business Performance Questions How are we doing? Why are we doing it (whatever it is)? What should we be doing?

6. BI/PM Tools:IBM Cognos 8 IBM Cognos 8 platform is a suite of BI and PM functions being fed by a metadata layer that provides consistency of data across the enterprise. It is available on a wide variety of platforms and is fully integrated.

7. Features of Cognos 8 Open Data Access Common Metadata Layer Reporting and Analytics Dashboards and Scorecards Event Detection and Actions

8. Features of Cognos 8 The Presentation Layer: Different users may require the same output in varying formats. The IBM Cognos 8 infrastructure is such that a result only needs to be produced once, but can served up in a variety of forms and formats.

9. Features of Cognos 8 Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting: IBM Cognos provides a set of tools and interfaces that allow an organization to separate business rules, logic, complex calculations, and aggregations from thedata. It also provides a set of pre-built, best-practice templates to minimize risk and accelerate time to business value.

10. Features of Cognos 8 Collaboration and Effective Communication: IBM Cognos 8 provides a rich set of operations that integrate well with MS Office, enterprise portals, mashups, and more. Having a common interface also allows for flexibility as individuals move around within an organization.

11. Features of Cognos 8 Portal Interactions: IBM Cognos 8 can be driven through a variety of portal interfaces. End users can create their own dashboards rather than wait for an IT specialist to deliver their personalized version.

12. Features of Cognos 8 Handling Unstructured Data: IBM Cognos 8 provides access to data held in a huge variety of formats, including unstructured information. Integration with IBM’s Text Analytics software extends the reach into the myriad data sources held in notes, documents, web pages, and more.

13. Business Intelligence Standardization Many clients have a set of tools from various vendors, many of which have overlapping functions. There is no one standard BI tool in the enterprise. One of the first and potentially greatest steps to take is the establishment of a Center of Competency (CoC) for BI/PM.

14. Center of Competency (CoC) The CoC is a centralized organization whose mission is to be the focal point for all tool evaluation, training, deployment, monitoring, and management. A CoC is better equipped to assess vendor offerings and match them to requirements across the organization.