THE BOTTOM LINE

Cognos is offering Performance Blueprints that give users out-of-the-box performance management solutions. Based on the Cognos 8 platform, these tools enable users to avoid developer time in creating commonly used performance management and BI best practices, reports, and scorecards. By enabling users to more rapidly deploy new performance management solutions for planning, financial management and control activities, Cognos is helping customers get ROI from their performance management investment faster and reduce deployment risk.