COA Solutions & Business Objects Seminars
14th May, 2008 - Maidenhead / 20th May, 2008 - Manchester
How to Achieve Effective Reporting & Analysis in your eFinancials System - Seminars
The seminars will focus on one aspect of Corporate Performance Management, effective reporting and analysis. Although the seminars will concentrate on reporting from eFinancials, the tools and applications can be used across all your systems.
For those customers already using Business Objects, we will show you what you need to do to upgrade to the latest web based platform (XI). We will also demonstrate how data extracted from the finance system can be turned into meaningful information and presented, through a variety of mediums, to positively impact decision making within your business.
Representatives from COA Solutions’ account management and eFinancials pre-sales along with representatives from Business Objects will be in attendance to answer any questions you may have.
| 09:15 |
Welcome and Introduction |
| 09:20 |
Introduction to IBM Cognos 8 and Performance Management
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| 09:45 |
Analysis
See how IBM Cognos 8 enables the guided exploration and analysis of both financial and non-financial information, helping users to get a better understanding of why the business is doing well or badly in different areas.
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| 10:05 |
Budgeting
Find out how IBM Cognos Planning is used to set targets across an organisation and how bottom up plans are aligned against those targets. Learn how to improve budget ownership through high participation planning. This session also covers how to reduce cycle times with submission management. |
| 10:40 |
Break |
| 10:55 |
Forecasting
Understand how IBM Cognos Planning is used to create dynamic rolling forecasts that help businesses respond quickly to changes. |
| 11:05 |
Scorecarding
This session briefly demonstrates how organisations can align teams and tactics with strategy, communicate goals consistently, and monitor performance against targets. |
| 11:25 |
Report Authoring
Discover how IBM Cognos 8 provides financial and business users with a self-service capability to quickly build, edit and share formatted reports. |
| 11:40 |
Dashboards
Discover how you can easily create an at-a-glance view of performance in a number of ways including interactive charts, reports and metrics to enable better understanding of business performance. |
| 11:55 |
Break |
| 12:10 |
Building a Planning Model
Understand how planning models can be built without the need for coding or programming skills – in other words by business users.
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| 12:40 |
Cognos Innovation Center
The Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management is a forum and resource centre for Cognos customers and partners. Learn how it brings together technology experts, finance professionals and industry thought leaders to promote proven techniques, technologies and best practices in performance management. |
| 12:50 |
Wrap-up with Q&A |
| 13:00 |
Lunch and Interactive One-to-one Demonstrations |
| 13:45 |
Optional afternoon session |
Seminar Location
14th May, 2008 - Business Objects Office, Maidenhead
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20th May, 2008 - Etrop Grange Hotel, Manchester
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Seminar Registration
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