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SPM Project Analysis

Presentation
SPM Business Model Usage

BANKING PHARMA

IBM
INSURANCE Cognos AUTO MOBILE
Tool

PRODUCT BASE SALES FORCE


SPM Project Analysis

Easy Comm
Payroll
Management-
Understand the
achievements

SPM- Adopts Calculate Reports for


the Complex error free Management &
comp Plans commissions Users

USER- easy
understanding
of comp plans
Outbound file
sharing with
encryption
IBM Cognos Technical

Application Server & Data Web Servers & Browsers Administrative (DESK) Web Client (Cloud)
Base
 WebSphere Application  Processor: Intel Core  Processor: Intel
 IBM Runtime Server Duo or equivalent Pentium 4 or
Environment  Apache Tomcat  Memory: 4 GB equivalent
 Java™ Technology  JBoss  Disk space: 180 MB plus  Memory: 1 GB
Edition  Linux™ - Ubuntu additional space for  Disk space: Negligible
 WebSphere®  Microsoft Windows™ local error logs and space for graphics and
Application Server reports HTML pages
 Apache Tomcat  Apple Safari  Display: XGA (1,024 x  Display: XGA (1,024 X
 Jboss  Google Chrome 768) or higher 768) or higher
 Microsoft™ SQL Server  Microsoft Internet resolution resolution
Explorer (9.0, or later)
 Mozilla Firefox
IBM Cognos Analysis

 Cognos 10 Mobile supports multiple mobile platforms - iOS, Android, Windows Mobile and
Blackberry. The mobile platform is able to filter and report data based on GPS coordinates.

 Both report content and metadata are searchable and this capability is included in the toolset,
and available at no additional cost from version 10 onwards

 Data from external sources can be imported, combined with sales data and use it in reports
without saving the external data in the database.

 Users can save interactive dashboards that can be viewed offline.

 End users can pull data and analyze into Excel and vice versa. Directly extract data into other
Microsoft Office products such as Word and PowerPoint.

 Limited ability to do advanced analysis like Predictive analysis or Digital Analysis


Alternate tools

ICM Alternate Tools

STRENGTH Tableau, TrueComp etc


Advantages

Easy accessibility
› Tableau – Limited data processing, poor screen
Adoptability of complex comp plans resolution on dash boards

Well structured user defined calendars › TrueComp-Decent tool but very expensive which can
be affordable to bigger firms
Flexible yet powerful secured features

Economical
Disadvantages

Processing huge data will slow down the server Lets you to see the data, directly correct any issues with
however the efficient system design plan will over come the data, however it’s a static tool not a dynamic
the situation
USE CASES

USE CASE 1: Reporting, Analysis & Planning system, known for its efficient calculating commission utilized in
projecting the reports

USE CASE2: Efficient comp plan implementation E.g. An insurance company has multiple comp plan for the
different set of channels they operate. Cognos has the capability of calculating the different business scenarios and
present the data uniformly

USE CASE3: Dash Board Presentations, useful to have a overview at single user lever or high management level

USE CASE4: Data Integrity and User authentication security

USE CASE5: Automate the regular jobs and self refreshing on the reports
Thank You

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