Defense
Overview
Defense organizations worldwide choose IBM Cognos software and services to improve visibility into and across their agencies, tie program success to budget allocation, and increase responsiveness and organizational effectiveness. To achieve these results, IBM offers:
The fastest methods
The Program Objective Memorandum, which details planned resource allocation six years into the future, is an essential and critical part of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process for the U.S. Department of Defense. To expedite this process, the IBM Cognos Program Objective Memorandum (POM) Performance Blueprint helps organizations improve management accountability, visibility, and control of the POM process. This blueprint allows budget owners to:
- Analyze trends
- Produce dynamic, drillable reports
- Improve budget accuracy and consistency
- Effect rapid change
The right products
Defense organizations are increasingly required to achieve and demonstrate integrated performance management. IBM Cognos software and services deliver on this requirement through:
- Unprecedented visibility into deployable resources with the accuracy and speed required to assess readiness at any point in time.
- “What if” analysis of future scenarios for deployment and capability planning.
- Insights into logistics processes, inventory, maintenance, material movement, and supply chains including location and readiness measures.
- Metric and data-based decision-making for greater accountability with scorecarding and dashboards.
- Lower costs and higher turnover for inventory by identifying bottlenecks and accelerating the flow of materials through the supply chain.
- Identification of skill gaps and training requirements for better retention, promotion, and recruiting of the right people for current and future missions.
- Human resource analytics for strategic management of the people that achieve the organization’s strategic objectives.
The requisite experience
Leading defense organizations on three continents choose IBM Cognos software and services for informed responses to operational challenges:
- U.S. Army ARDEC and U.S. Army Reserve
- U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Air Force
- U.S. Defense Contract Management Agency
- U.K. Ministry of Defence
- German Army Logistics Command
- Royal Netherlands Army
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- Reporting and Dashboards
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