• Strategy Maps

• Scorecards and Dashboards• Business Activity Monitoring

• Integration of EnterprisePlanning, Budgeting andForecasting Applications

• Cost Modeling• Profitability Modeling• Cost and Chargeback Process/ System

• Financial Consolidation• Management Reporting

• Reporting on Individual Performance

What Customers Get

Enterprise Performance Management

• Cognizant Solution Overview

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Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is a set of processes and applications designed to translate the business strategy to KPIs and to measure, analyze and predict organization performance. EPM adds value to the business by focusing on how an organization develops, implements and monitors strategic plans. EPM helps in aligning the organization’s processes across functions and directing resources to achieve the objectives.

Organizations are also increasingly leveraging Business Intelligence (BI) investments to drive EPM solut ions and track their business performance. Integration of EPM with BI is helping companies roll-up analytics at the operational and tactical levels into KPIs that can be viewed in dashboards/ scorecards at the strategic level

Cognizant’s EPM Practice

Cognizant’s EPM practice is tightly integrated with Enterprise Analytics (EA) and is part of the Cognizant Business Consulting (CBC) – EA’s consulting arm. The practice has a strategic focus on providing performance management solutions involving management dashboards, balanced scorecards and KPI index tracker to our customers.

The practice has fine tuned its methodology and approach to EPM consulting and implementation. It has also developed quick-start solutions for rapid scorecard development using KPI repositories and applications for predicting these KPIs using lag and lead indicators.

EPM Solution Chain

The solution offerings have been divided into 5 key areas. These are aligned to the industry needs and the offerings from different product vendors in the EPM space.

Strategy and MetricsVisualization

Solution

Financial Modeling and Analysis

Business Reporting

Integrated Performance Management System

Enterprise Planningand Budgeting

Four Aces Framework

Four Aces is Cognizant’s EPM implementation methodology developed with the rigor of six sigma process and tested in real-life situations. It encapsulates all aspects of a EPM engagement s ta r t i n g w i t h a ssess i n g t h e cu sto m e r environment for EPM readiness using the homegrown “SIMPOSM” tool, analyzing the existing environment for the different business needs, aligning the overall solution architecture to the enterprise application and BI environment and finally achieving or implementing the required solution.

Four Aces Framework

To assess the

“EPM readiness”

of the organization

Assess readiness with an indigenousdiagnostic instrumentAssess current BI architecture

EPM roadmap

EPM readiness assessment

ASSESS ANALYZE

To define the

Strategic Objectives

Derive Strategic

Objectives aligned to

the vision and goals

Group objectives into

strategic themes

Strategy map

ALIGN ACHIEVE

Objective

Activity

Output

To define KPIs

aligned to Strategic

Objectives

Translate Strategic

Objectives into KPIs /

Scorecards

Architecture Finalization

KPIs

Scorecards

To implement EPM

solution and monitor

effectiveness

Create, test,

Deploy Scorecards

Test efficacy of KPIs

Configure alerts

Deployed EPM solution

Cognizant’s EPM Differentiators

Early Warning System

Early Warning System (EWS) is a next-gen EPM solution with integrated predictive capabilities. It provides an intelligent infrastructure that allows organizations to predict and alert management on key indicators. EWS not only shows the current values of these metrics but also the predicted performance using simulation models and statistical predictive techniques.

EWS has intuitive dashboards and scorecards that provide an integrated view of metrics to multiple business units across hierarchy levels.

SIMPOSM – EPM Assessment Tool

SIMPOSM is a quick readiness assessment tool to assess whether the customer is ready to embark on a EPM initiative. SIMPOSM assess the EPM readiness across seven different dimensions – strategy, initiative, measurement framework, process, organization, systems and metrics.

SIMPOSM reduces risk as customers can fill in the loose ends before making any significant investments.

World Headquarters

500 Frank W. Burr Blvd.Teaneck, NJ 07666 USAPhone: +1 201 801 0233Fax: +1 201 801 0243Toll Free: +1 888 937Email: inquiry@cognizant.com

European Headquarters

1 Kingdom StreetPaddington CentralLondon, W26BD UKPhone: +44 (0) 207 297 7600Fax: +44 (0) 207 121 0102 Email: infouk@cognizant.com

India Operations Headquarters

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About Cognizant Enterprise Analytics

For more information please send an e-mail to our global team at or visit our Web site at inquiry@cognizant.comhttp://www.cognizant.com/enterpriseanalytics

Cognizant Enterprise Analytics drive tangible business benefits to every customer and shifts analytics from being cost

centers to revenue centers. We future-proof visionary businesses by combining in-depth domain expertise with analytics and information management best practices that help clients optimize decisions and results. Enterprise

Analytics is committed to helping clients run better through a range of integrated analytics and enterprise performance

management services and solutions. We help clients run differently by grounding our services and solutions in foundational components including mobility, cloud, big data and smart data. Our end-to-end blend of business and

technology solutions already reflects the future of analytics, and enables us to create transformational value through innovation and agility.

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