In today's challenging economic climate, finance within the enterprise has come under unprecedented scrutiny. CFOs and their finance organizations have had to address urgent capital acquisition, cash flow and revenue challenges. In many organizations, senior finance executives and analysts do not have real-time access to reliable business information from across the organization. Existing reporting and analysis tools are often too IT-centric and prevent business users from accessing and interacting with their own reports and analysis.
The IBM Smarter Analytics Signature Solution – CFO performance insight improves visibility, insight, and control over financial performance and key financial performance indicators. It enables CFOs to measure, monitor, and anticipate business performance with a pre-configured solution that:
- Uncovers temporal-causal relationships between performance metrics using predictive analytics
- Enables guided root-cause analysis and what-if analytics through an executive-style dashboard
- Helps improve operational efficiency and delivers trusted financial information
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The IBM Smarter Analytics Signature Solution – CFO performance insight, includes a proprietary lead-lag causal model developed by IBM Watson Research Center that automatically uncovers causal relationships including time lag, strength and degrees of separation between drivers and key performance indicators (KPIs) based on historical data. This capability is used to guide root-cause analysis and establish baseline forecasts for the most material and volatile metrics. It also has the ability to integrate with external indicators, facilitating actionable insights.
Business benefits
IBM CFO performance insight solution combines predictive analytics with what-if analysis and strong visualization in a single platform with a solid information foundation. It leverages proprietary IBM Research algorithms for temporal-causal modeling in order to identify and understand relationships between performance metrics, and provides enhanced visualization of performance trends and gaps.
- Measure and monitor performance with predictive capabilities delivered through an executive style dashboard
- A proprietary lead-lag causal model developed by IBM Watson Research Center
- Integrated “what-if” analysis to assess the impact of alternative forecast assumptions
- Shifts financial management focus towards delivering stronger business insight on a foundation of trusted information
- Delivers proven outcomes with solution built on a rich portfolio of analytics capabilities
- Accelerates time-to-value with short-term projects that support the long-term roadmap
IBM Smarter Analytics Signature Solutions
IBM Smarter Analytics is a holistic approach that turns information into insight and insight into business outcomes. IBM Smarter Analytics Signature Solutions are a portfolio of outcome-based analytic solutions designed to address the most pressing industry and functional challenges clients are facing in today’s evolving marketplace – a marketplace in which organizations need Smarter Analytics to stay ahead of their competitors. These solutions are built on the knowledge and experience of IBM’s global team of researchers, consultants, sellers and software specialists and represent a portfolio of proven innovation that has been implemented at clients worldwide, and brings the best of IBM capabilities together to deliver break-away results for clients seeking to achieve transformation through Smarter Analytics.
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- Mark Gosnell,
- IBM Global Finance Leader – CFO Performance Insight
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