Innovation Description and Benefit:

This project programming Cognos “monster” report allows users to effectively monitor contract award amounts, change order totals, percent project complete, total programmed amounts per project, and remaining programmed amounts per project.  Tracking of programmed project dollars is something that has not been available via a Cognos report on the construction side until now.  This report makes it very easy to actively track your overall construction STIP project budgets as they progress throughout the year.  In turn, this allows leadership the ability to make cost effective decisions with respect to contract changes and issues that arise.  It is a one stop shop for all your program tracking needs! Simply generate this user-friendly Cognos report, or better yet, set up a schedule so Cognos automatically runs this report on the first of each month, and you will be amazed at how simple monitoring project programming, and overall budget can be.