Welcome to The EP Practice where we address your Enterprise Planning and Reporting needs right from Project Start-up to Go-Live support. We provide Architecture and Design services, Project Management, Support and Technical services to customers using the IBM Cognos Enterprise Planning and Reporting Suite.
The IBM Cognos Tool-kit is applied to deliver in the following key business areas:
- Strategic Planning and long range forecasting
- Revenue and Unit Sales Forecast
- Base & Event Forecasts
- Zero & Driver-Based Forecast
- Rolling Forecasts
- Preparation of Financial Statements
- Cash flow and balance sheets
- Top Down forecast review adjustments
- End of Cycle Rollover and archiving
See our Services section to learn how we can work together to deliver on these areas.
Emphasis on the Process.
We fully appreciate that the technology itself is not the entire solution but the process it supports and enables. We place a high emphasis on the process design right from the beginning of the project and do not waste valuable time developing your requirements before you understand the technology. Through our ‘Discovery and Concepts’ workshops we demonstrate how the technology can be applied to address business problems to form a better understanding of your true requirements. This is the first step in our iterative approach to services delivery. The success of Enterprise Planning is wholly dependant on our iterative build and demo approach, achieving a practical and scalable solution for your enterprise.
Measure Success.
Together we develop a Roles-Benefit matrix at the outset of the project and continually measure the design, performance and process effectiveness against each success criterion to ensure the resulting system is meeting original expectations.
“…Projects only fail when they fail to meet expectations.”
Our Mantra - No Surprises !
Communication is key to project success. If management are not aware of issues then management does not have the opportunity to manage.
Our Team
Our consultants are of the highest calibre and have backgrounds as former employees of Cognos or other main-stream IT vendors and Consultancy houses. Our team members have an aptitude for all things IT, strong consultancy skills and the ability to elicit system requirements at the core of their skill set.
The latest version of the Cognos EP and BI suite consists of the following principal components:
- Analyst & Manager
- Contributor
- Framework Manager
- Event Studio
- Analysis Studio
- Query Studio
- Report studio
Whilst we would encourage all customers to work with the latest generation of the software we also retain expertise in former versions of EP series-7 and the former BI applications such as PowerPlay and ReportNet. See our Products page for more detail on Product history and capability of the Cognos EP and Cognos BI Suite.
For more information contact us at : info@eppractice.co.uk