In the new era of banking profitability management, financial institutions face many challenges: increasing overheads, online lending, compliance regulations, competitive mortgage brokers. To meet these challenges, banks are consistently placing more emphasis on managing their profitability—specifically, on a totally integrated process of profitability management. With the recognition that profitability is the major force that drives the entire organization, banks are according top priority to a company-wide profitability management process based on planning and control. The top financial institutions worldwide are developing profitability management systems that feature the creation of quantitative objectives, the careful monitoring of progress against these goals, tighter expense control, and more aggressive pricing and collection procedures. But all these initiatives don't happen in a vacuum—they need to be based on solid, reliable business intelligence. And the most successful financial institutions globally rely on IBM for the business intelligence that provides the fundamental bedrock for their profitability management process.
Cognos Business Intelligence Meets Banking Profitability Challenges
All of the top ten commercial banks in the world are IBM clients, so it's easy to see that IBM business intelligence underlies a huge proportion of the highest-achieving segment of the financial services industry. The integrated performance management software and services from IBM help banks to increase customer, product, and channel profitability, manage and reduce risk, and address compliance issues. With the right business intelligence solution from IBM—including the IBM expertise in financial performance management—these banks are overcoming their challenges and improving their profitability.
Cognos Solutions for Banking Profitability
For mastery of today's changing banking industry, a profitability management process must include planning, measurement, and interpretation—all based on valid, accurate data—and IBM can provide the key to success. IBM Cognos planning software and performance blueprints provide an efficient, top-down and bottom-up, interactive method of making sure that long-range planning, budgeting, and resourcing efforts are directed toward the achievement of corporate objectives. The measurement aspect of the process taps into the IBM core business intelligence competency, data analysis, for the monitoring of progress against the set targets. With IBM, interpretation becomes an easier and more valuable exercise, enabling the formulation of goals for the next planning cycle, as well as a review of current profitability results for customers, channels, and products. With a solution from IBM, major financial institutions the world over have been able to develop a totally integrated profitability management system and achieve a significant improvement in market share.
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