cf future tom o’brien cognos finance product manager
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CF Future
Tom O’Brien
Cognos Finance Product Manager
What do I Want?
Give/Take
Give
• Education about CF direction
• Education about features
CF Roadmap
• Cognos 7.4 MR2 - planned for early 2008 - Including rolling bug fixes, Vista conformance, and Auditing capability
• Cognos 7.4 MR3 - planned for late 2008 - With a focus on Quality and Audit capability
• Cognos Finance 7.5 - planned for early 2009 - Continuing focus on audit capability and SOX compliance with additional customer enhancements
CF Support Statement
Support Statement• There is no plan to discontinue Cognos Finance support or
development. • Additional releases are planned, aimed at Customer value
enhancement.• Upgrades and new licenses for Cognos Finance continue to be
sold.Continued Areas of Value:– “All-in-One” Generalized Financial Management solution
for Mid-Market & Departmental Finance - Consolidations, Budgeting, Reporting
– Financial OLAP for Analysis & Reporting, Metrics & Allocations
– Custom OEM solutions
Conference synopsis
• Eric – Myth busting, CF has a future
• Aimee – Look Deeper and recent product enhancements
• Bill - Product convergence, how CF fits into the future vision
• Brian – allocations are not scary
What I’ve Heard
• Excel vs. CF Reporting• Training is key• Web reporting• Import attributes• Integration with C8• Integration with planning• Drill through to the transaction level• Set Administrative Order
Future Wish List
• Database back end.• Improving and distributing Calcs.• Expanded integration with Cognos products• Open architecture for 3rd party enhancements.• Reporting improvements - • File Processing from Planning• Undo• Report from multiple systems
MR2 enhancements
• Audit Trail for Define Items – working toward an ability to track, store and report on all changes made within define items.
• CSV Mapfiles• Batch reporting from Windows folders
Sox compliance/ Audit Trail
Three areas of concern• Tracking changes to the metadata through define
items. Adding changing dimension items, altering calculations.
• Tracking changes to data from Input and File Processing.
• Tracking changes to the system such as Security and changes to allocation tables or currency translation tables.
Take
• Audience participation discussing future direction.
Cognos Finance, moving forward.
Q & A