With the products companies are able to plan, understand and strongly control their financial and economical efforts. Cognos links technologies, analytic applications, best practices as well as a wide network of partners and offers therefore customers a complete performance management. This performance system of Cognos is an open and flexible solution, which gives answers to the following questions: “Where we stand? “Why?”, “What should we do?”. Executives are able to analyse and manage the actual company effort and also develop prospective business strategies. The software solutions of Cognos are used by more than 23.000 customers in more than 135 countries. The Top 100 customers regularly outperform the market index. The Cognos performance management solution and services are available by more than 3000 partners and resellers worldwide.