Financial Performance Analytics
IBM Cognos 8 Financial Performance Analytics (FPA) for J.D. Edwards and Oracle E-Business Suite enables customers to quickly gain actionable insight into their organisations' financial performance through packaged and adaptable reports.
The ability to snugly fit to requirements at the cost of a packaged application is enabled by the adaptability of FPA.
The application’s adaptability allows for changes to reports, data sources, names and many other types of changes done through end-user configuration.
This can be done because the various levels of the solution automatically generates ETL code, the warehouse itself, the semantic layer and reports.
The ability to easily adapt the solution over time to meet changing requirements of any of these components enables FPA to always provide relevant information to business users quickly and at the lowest possible cost.
This is a boon for resource strapped IT departments.
The Cognos 8 Performance Management System is based on three core layers:
An enterprise class platform based on a modern Web services-based SOA architecture. This is the platform and architecture to support the solution.
Adaptive model-driven application configuration and management. This is the heart of the analytics solution.
Application Management. (Metrics, Planning, Consolidation) Universal Capabilities: In the center layer, we leveraged the platform to provide a broad set of user capabilities, such as reporting & analysis, dashboarding & scorecarding, to name a few.
On top of those capabilities, we have added solutions based on best business practices to accelerate successful performance management applications: We have everything from full, turn-key applications like our Performance Analytics to proscriptive ways of using the technology, how to install faster, configure faster.
(Start build) IBM Cognos 8 Financial Performance Analytics (FPA) for J.D. Edwards and Oracle E-Business Suite consists of General Ledger, Receivables, and Payables Analytics modules that interactively analyze financial information from different ERP systems and other data sources using standard reporting formats. It sits right where the red circle is in the image and provides answers to critical business questions organizations face when they evaluate their financial performance. With FPA, finance departments can source data enterprise wide to view key financial performance information, such as financial ratios, receivable risk, payables efficiencies, organizational effectiveness and cash management, using packaged reports configured by end users. Help to shed light on critical information to accelerate decision making to improve performance.