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 Including rolling bug fixes, Vista conformance, and Auditing capability Cognos 7.4 MR3 - planned for late With a focus on Quality and Audit capability Cognos Finance planned for early 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 3 rd 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