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Case studies
Omnicom Group masters its money with business analytics ... Treasury team delivers wealth of insight
Find out why having a consistent platform for business analytics means a shorter learning curve when developing and delivering information to support Omnicom’s business, while at the seame time allowing the team to increase its level of expertise and efficiency with each deployment.
Last updated: 24 Apr 2012
Premier Healthcare Alliance Video ... Analyzing patient data to determine the best treatments, reduce waste, and improve the overall health of the population.
Premier healthcare alliance and IBM are analyzing patient data from 2,500 hospitals and 73,000 clinics to determine the best treatments, reduce waste, and improve the overall health of the population.
Last updated: 07 Dec 2011
Amphia Hospital ... Better management, faster planning
Using IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence, Amphia implemented a web portal that offers hospital managers rapid insight into current situations in the hospital and enables them to respond faster to organisational and market developments. The solution also provides valuable input for negotiations with health car...
Last updated: 05 Dec 2011
Jadran Galenski Laboratorij ... By consolidating and analyzing both external market and internal planning data, this European pharma company gains a 360-degree view of its production environment, enabling it to predict and respond quickly to fluctuations and changes
By consolidating and analyzing both external market and internal planning data, this European pharma company gains a 360 degree view of its production environment, enabling it to predict and respond quickly to fluctuations and changes
Last updated: 16 Sep 2011
IBM BUSINESS ANALYTICS: BECKER UNDERWOOD ... A detailed ROI case study
Nucleus Research examined Becker Underwood’s deployment of IBM Business Analytics and found it improved the forecasting and planning processes between the sales and operations teams, resulting in improved productivity, enhanced communications and ultimately a 50 percent increase in inventory turns.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2011
Nature's Path Organic Foods Builds a healthier world, one report at a time
In early 2008, Nature’s Path Organic Foods needed to make corporate performance more visible, give all decision-makers immediate access to critical information and to help improve the sales budgeting process.
Last updated: 22 Feb 2011
Financial Analytics Case Studies
Learn how these customers used IBM Cognos enterprise planning solutions to improve insight into profitability: IBM, Cellular South and Alfred Angelo.
Last updated: 12 Jan 2011
Success Stories of Expanded Planning and Analysis
Read about companies who moved beyond simple financial planning with a host of new values such as reduced inventory, improved marketing return, sales linked more closely to operations, global planning and more.
Last updated: 12 Jan 2011
Rotkäppchen-Mumm Sektkellereien ... Enhances business analytics and forecasting
A leading German winemaker integrates new product ranges resulting from a corporate acquisition into its SAP ERP landscape by implementing IBM servers and storage plus IBM Cognos software
Last updated: 20 Oct 2010
Misys builds a sophisticated group-wide forecasting solution ... Creating complex analytical models with IBM Cognos Planning
Artesian Solutions helped Misys implement a single Cognos Planning solution for business analysts and finance managers across the company. The solution comprises eight interdependent analytical models, which import and process data from the company’s Sun Accounting and SAP HR systems in near-real time.
Last updated: 08 Sep 2010
John Wiley & Sons increases productivity, transparency and accountability with an IBM Cognos global planning solution
Wiley had been successfully using the IBM Cognos solution for reporting for many years. They chose the IBM solution because of their past success with the company’s BI solution, along with a need to standardize on a single planning and reporting platform.
Last updated: 31 Aug 2010
IBM Cognos Solution has reporting and planning requirements covered at Wietersdorfer Group
The introduction of a new ERP system at the main companies within the Wietersdorfer Industriebeteiligungs Group resulted in a need for a real-time, flexible and future-proof foundation, and to redesign existing reporting structures. That need was fulfilled through the implementation of the IBM® Cognos® CPM s...
Last updated: 23 Aug 2010
Telenet responds quickly to new trends with IBM Cognos BI and IBM Cognos Planning
Telenet decided to construct a powerful, flexible business intelligence environment based on IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and IBM Cognos 8 Planning.
Last updated: 23 Aug 2010
Philips Consumer Lifestyle streamlines the planning and forecasting process
Philips Consumer Lifestyle integrates their global planning and forecasting process with the help of the IBM Cognos solution
Last updated: 21 May 2010
Alpine Electronics USA plans sales for next-generation mobile media technology with IBM Cognos and SAP
IBM Global Business Services leveraged its electronics and automotive industry expertise to design, deploy and manage a solution based on SAP Business Suite. Niteo, an IBM Business Partner, also helped implement IBM Cognos Planning, which captures data downloaded from the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse syst...
Last updated: 17 Aug 2009
Serving up higher performance at Quiznos
Quiznos was experiencing rapid growth of its business. And it needed its planning and financial systems and process to keep pace.
Last updated: 25 Feb 2009
Data sheets
IBM Cognos Discovery and Validation Workshop
This workshop helps you document your goals and challenges, both business and technical, and charts out a roadmap for project success.
Last updated: 12 Jan 2011
Demos
IBM Cognos Retail Banking Customer Segment Performance Blueprint
See how users can receive customer segment information, analyze information to determine targets, plan initiatives to drive increased profits in this Web demo.
Last updated: 12 Jan 2011
Insurance Product Performance Blueprint
See for yourself how this Blueprint can help your organization create business segment profit-and-loss statements and balance sheets by product line, product, and brand.
Last updated: 12 Jan 2011
Smarter Expense Planning in Turbulent Times
See how driver-based plans and budgets help you link expenses to market events and corporate objectives for improved decision quality and risk mitigation.
Last updated: 11 Jan 2011
Information centers
Planning and Forecasting Software Resource Kit
This resource kit contains an enterprise planning demo and three white papers that show you how best-practice planning, budgeting and forecasting can help your finance team drive better business outcomes.
Last updated: 11 Apr 2011
Dashboarding Best Practices
Learn proven best practices in dashboards and data visualization from Stephen Few and how to implement them using IBM Cognos software.
Last updated: 12 Jan 2011
Product documentation
Branch Performance Blueprint Evaluation Guide
This guide describes the business value of the Branch Performance Blueprint, which provides the business and market intelligence for more accurate plans, forecasts and budgets.
Last updated: 12 Jan 2011
Clinical Trials Modeling and Resource Tracking Evaluation Guide
This Blueprint helps reduce the effort of planning for a clinical study by enabling you to model all aspects of a clinical trial before you start. This guide explains how.
Last updated: 12 Jan 2011
Sales Planning and Forecasting Performance Blueprint
The Sales Planning and Forecasting Blueprint enables an integrated sales planning process that aligns sales targets with corporate objectives.
Last updated: 12 Jan 2011
Strategic Finance Performance Blueprint
The Strategic Finance Blueprint provides a complete performance management framework that enables users to clearly identify and measure organizational objectives.
Last updated: 12 Jan 2011
White papers
The Power of Analytics Maturity: Achieve better business outcomes by raising your analytics quotient
Read about the technologies in IBM's comprehensive, unified business analytics system and how they work together to help organizations grow in analytics maturity – that is, their ability to use analytics to improve business outcomes.
Last updated: 16 Jun 2011
Three Capabilities to Fuel Todays Dynamic Planning and Forecasting
Today's business environment is characterized by skittishness, tenuous demand and sporadic growth. Learn how the ability to analyze, model and gather information from a large number of contributors can help you thrive in this uncertain economy.
Last updated: 21 Jan 2011
Budgeting: Beyond Spreadsheets
Read how planning and analysis solutions from IBM can reduce the pain of your annual budgeting process.
Last updated: 11 Jan 2011
Eleven Practical Ideas for Smarter Expense Planning and Budgeting In Both Downturns and Upswings
This paper introduces eleven best practices for managing expenses and shows how an effective planning system can put the punch into expense management.
Last updated: 11 Jan 2011
How Performance Management Can Help You to Navigate through Turbulent Times: Smart Expense Planning
In this last of 5 articles, Jeremy Hope explains how moving away from accounting rules and adjusting your expenses more rapidly with changing demand can help you eliminate costs.
Last updated: 11 Jan 2011
IBM Cognos 8 Performance Management for use with SAP NetWeaver
Read about the long history of partnership and innovation between IBM and SAP and the benefits of IBM integration, interoperability, capabilities and expertise for SAP.
Last updated: 11 Jan 2011
Next-generation forecasting: How rolling forecasts can rescue your company's performance
Rolling forecasting supported by enterprise planning and analysis solutions from IBM can provide the real-time information you need in the current economy.
Last updated: 11 Jan 2011
Shifting Gears: Moving from Reactive to Proactive Planning
Savvy organizations are forging ahead with integrated planning strategies for managing performance and are recording impressive revenues and profits. Read how they're doing it in this white paper.
Last updated: 11 Jan 2011
Spreadsheet-based planning in today's economy: Why you're up against the wall
Errors in spreadsheet-based planning can compromise your company's performance. Using an integrated enterprise planning solution instead can boost overall corporate performance.
Last updated: 11 Jan 2011
Where Finance Belongs on the IT Agenda
With the economy on the mend, Finance needs the business insight that can only come from reliable data and metrics. Learn why IT and Finance need to work together in the post-recession economy.
Last updated: 11 Jan 2011
Capital Project Planning Performance Blueprint
Using this Blueprint, companies will have forward looking visibility into major capital project or resource spending decisions at both divisional and corporate levels.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Capital Project Planning Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint manages capital project requests, their justification, and the capital request approval process. Developed with Genware Computer Systems, Inc. (Release 2)
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Clinical Trial Forecasting Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint helps pharmaceutical companies better anticipate clinical trial resource requirements and accompanying expenses in order to comply with FDA filing requirements.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Clinical Trial Resource Planning Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint provides immediate insight for forecasting both the short- and long-term staffing requirements for a successful clinical trial.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Clinical Trials Modeling and Resource Tracking Blueprint Data Model
Data model for the Clinical Trials Modeling and Resource Tracking Blueprint.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Discretionary Capital Expenditure Planning
This Blueprint facilitates planning for capital spending, while ensuring that projects adhere to established corporate guidelines.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
IBM Cognos Branch Performance Blueprint
The Branch Performance Blueprint helps banks use business intelligence to acquire deposits, generate revenue, retain customers, and operate efficiently.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Initiative Planning Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint uses projections from other Blueprints or planning systems as well as actual history to drive labor or capital expense planning for new initiatives.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Insurance Product Profitability Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint offers a logical approach to assessing insurance product performance in the context of corporate goals and objectives and budget and forecast constraints.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Manufacturing Sales and Operations Planning Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint helps you monitor the S&OP process using scorecards, dashboards and analytics while providing the planning functionality to adjust plans as needed.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Manufacturing Trade Promotion Management Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint lets brand managers and sales executives evaluate multiple scenarios and plan the mix of promotional activity that will yield the greatest return on investment.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Municipal Performance Management Blueprint
This Blueprint gives local governments a practical framework to manage performance across city agencies consistently and objectively.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Program Objective Memorandum (POM) Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint can help organizations shift focus from straight financial discipline to increased attention and emphasis on program performance and results.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Relationship Pricing for Commercial Banking Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint features centralized administration, intuitive customer reporting, and a pricing model that includes both deal and relationship profitability.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Retail Banking Customer Segment
This blueprint enables retail banks to create profit and loss statements at the customer segment level and report on and analyze profitability.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Retail Banking Customer Segment Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint enables segment managers to report on and analyze profitability down to the customer or household.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Retail Financial Workbench and Scorecard Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint delivers tools for integrated company-wide planning and analysis of results against plans.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Retail Strategic Merchandise Planning Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint enables retail chains to plan sales, margins, gross profit, and stock by division, channel, department or category.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Retail Strategic Promotion and Marketing Planning Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint enables retail managers to model multiple promotional scenarios, measure costs and sales, monitor vendor funds and compliance, and analyze campaign effectiveness.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Risk Adjusted Profitability Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint enables financial institutions to incorporate risk calculations into an enterprise-wide, distributed profitability management process.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Risk Analysis Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint enables a corporation to analyze and assess risks associated with future performance, and quantify risk mitigation strategies.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Salary and Position Planning Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint provides a performance management framework—including planning, metrics, and reporting—that helps colleges and universities analyze current and future salary needs.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Sales Compensation Planning Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint enables organizations to manage compensation targets and commission payouts, and archive historical data and previous projections for reference and analysis.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Sales Planning and Forecasting Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint enables organizations to manage revenues, archive historical data and previous projections for reference and analysis.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Sample Optimization Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint enables pharmaceutical executives to develop and implement sample allocation plans that are in line with corporate revenue objectives.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Store Operations and Development Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint (Release 1) allows retailers to complete store-level revenue and expense planning to ensure that store plans are in line with corporate targets.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Strategic Finance Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint helps companies establish performance targets and guide resource allocations for operational plans and budgets across the enterprise.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Strategic Financial Planning and Forecasting Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint aligns financial objectives to synchronize and coordinate operational plans across the enterprise.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Strategic Long Range Planning Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint uses projections from other Blueprints to assess the impact of market growth factors and strategic initiatives on corporate P/L projections over a five-year period.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Upstream Oil and Gas Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint allows the upstream oil and gas sector to plan production, revenue, expenses, and capital expenditures at the well, field, or area level.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
