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Analyst reports
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites 2012
This report presents Gartner's opinion of the software vendors that should be considered by organizations seeking to use a CPM Suite to better manage and improve their performance.
Last updated: 14 Mar 2012
Improving decisions and reporting with IBM Cognos FSR
Download Nucleus Research's note on Cognos FSR, and how it enabled companies to increase the productivity of the finance department and report builders in non-finance roles.
Last updated: 08 Sep 2011
Books
Financial Reporting Automation For Dummies
This guide discusses the pressures Finance faces creating management and external reports in Word and Excel and uncovers the benefits of deploying an automated reporting solution.
Last updated: 17 Oct 2011
XBRL Mandate For Dummies
This guide helps organizations assemble the right people, make the right investment in a solution, and helps Finance create best practices to ensure a successful XBRL compliance.
Last updated: 17 Oct 2011
SEC XBRL Mandate For Dummies
Learn the basics of XBRL tagging; SEC XBRL reporting requirements; and the difference between outsourcing, bolt-on, and integrated solution choices.
Last updated: 23 Aug 2011
iXBRL For Dummies
All you need to know about iXBRL.
Last updated: 24 Jun 2011
Brochures
IBM Cognos Financial Statement Reporting ( FSR) automated external reporting
IBM Cognos FSR provides a collaborative environment where many contributors can participate in the creation of the external document, within a secure environment, a tight audit trail and with a seamless connection to source data.
Last updated: 23 Aug 2011
IBM Cognos FSR: A unified platform for public sector financial management and reporting
IBM Cognos FSR for Public Sector Financial Reporting.
Last updated: 23 Aug 2011
IBM Cognos FSR: Automate mutual fund reporting
IBM Cognos FSR is a single secure platform that automates the creation of financial reports, prospectuses and any other statutory or regulatory filings for mutual fund companies and fund administrators.
Last updated: 23 Aug 2011
IBM Cognos FSR™ Account Reconciliation
Reduce risk and improve efficiency during your company's financial close with IBM Cognos FSR for Account Reconciliation.
Last updated: 23 Aug 2011
IBM Cognos FSR™ Automated CAFR reporting for state and local governments
IBM Cognos FSR provides a scalable, functionality rich solution to automate the creation of the CAFR.
Last updated: 23 Aug 2011
IBM Cognos FSR™ Integrated financial close management
With IBM Cognos FSR, companies can collaborate on financial consolidations, reconciliation management, continuous controls and external reporting – using just one solution.
Last updated: 23 Aug 2011
Case studies
FrieslandCampina cuts financial reporting cycle times by 50 percent ... Automating financial reporting processes for a €9 billion business
FrieslandCampina’s office of finance implemented IBM® Cognos® Financial Statement Reporting (FSR), a secure platform for automating each step in the financial reporting process. In Cognos FSR, report data is integrated with source data – making reports dynamic and automatically updating them with near real-ti...
Last updated: 15 Dec 2011
Morgan Sindall Group plc builds automated financial reporting ... Simplifying the creation of accurate and timely annual and interim reports
Morgan Sindall’s finance team built a new annual reporting process by implementing IBM Cognos Financial Statement Reporting (FSR). The solution uses consolidated financial data from IBM Cognos Controller and creates linked Microsoft Excel and Word documents that form the basis of the final report.
Last updated: 14 Dec 2011
Automated Treasury Management at IBM with Cognos FSR
Using IBM® Cognos® FSR, the Treasury Department was able to automate each step in the cash management process – cutting the time and effort needed to collect, consolidate and review monthly reports and forecasts while also greatly reducing the risk of errors in this critical Finance function.
Last updated: 26 Sep 2011
Automate and enhance controls over CAFR and budget reporting ... With IBM Cognos FSR
To gain approval for annual budgets and meet other critical obligations, the Office of Management and Budget needs to be able to produce its comprehensive annual financial report (CAFR) in an efficient and timely manner. With data held in hundreds of spreadsheets creating these reports was a lengthy and error...
Last updated: 19 Sep 2011
NW Natural excels at XBRL ... Using IBM Cognos FSR to automate SEC reporting
NW Natural implemented IBM® Cognos® Financial Statement Reporting (FSR), a secure, integrated disclosure management platform which provides comprehensive governance, automation, collaboration and validation tools for narrative-rich financial reports such as the 10-Q and 10-K filings.
Last updated: 07 Sep 2011
IBM Cognos FSR and British Airways
British Airways gains greater control of its external report creation process with IBM Cognos FSR.
Last updated: 23 Aug 2011
IBM Cognos FSR and LGC
LGC relies on IBM Cognos FSR for operational efficiencies and a reduction in regulatory risks.
Last updated: 23 Aug 2011
IBM Cognos FSR and LV=
Simply put, IBM Cognos FSR gives LV= one version of the truth.
Last updated: 23 Aug 2011
British Airways gains greater control of its external report creation process with IBM Cognos FSR
The responsibility of the Group Reporting team within British Airways is to provide our management, our regulators, our investors and the public at large with accurate and timely financial information, which transparently reflects the state of our current operations
Last updated: 09 Jun 2011
IBM Cognos FSR gives LV= one version of the truth
A combination of rapid growth and the company’s efforts to transform itself to meet the rapidly changing environment that insurers and asset managers must operate in had a profound impact on the Group Finance department at LV=.
Last updated: 09 Jun 2011
IBM BUSINESS ANALYTICS COGNOS FSR: MAJOR OIL AND GAS COMPANY ... A detailed ROI case study
Nucleus Research recently examined the use of Clarity FSR at a major oil and gas producer to identify the benefits of using the application to create financial statements with XBRL tagging.
Last updated: 03 Mar 2011
Data sheets
Integrated and automated budget program and performance reporting with Cognos FSR
Find out how Cognos FSR is a single, secure platform to enhance controls and automate budget and fiscal management reporting for the Federal sector.
Last updated: 31 Jan 2012
IFRS Reporting with IBM Cognos FSR
IBM Cognos FSR helps companies in the transition from GAAP to IFRS.
Last updated: 23 Aug 2011
Integrated XBRL
The integrated IBM Cognos FSR approach embeds XBRL tagging inside the external reporting process creating reusable XBRL for your next 10-Q or 10-K.
Last updated: 23 Aug 2011
Typical implementation overview
Implementation timeline for IBM Cognos FSR software.
Last updated: 23 Aug 2011
XBRL implementation overview
XBRL implimentation timeline for IBM Cognos FSR software.
Last updated: 23 Aug 2011
XBRL Level IV filing
IBM Cognos FSR reduces the level of effort and risk related to the XBRL Level IV filing.
Last updated: 23 Aug 2011
Videos
Cognos FSR Customer Video
Learn how 4 companies are using Cognos FSR to streamline the creation and production of their lengthy narrative-rich financial reports.
Last updated: 06 Sep 2011
Cognos FSR Animated Video
Automate the creation and delivery of management reports and analysis as well as external regulatory disclosures (including XBRL). Discover Cognos FSR.
Last updated: 03 Aug 2011
White papers
Extracting the Full Value of SEC Filing Software
This third party white paper by Ventana Research discusses how applications can do more than XBRL tagging.
Last updated: 04 Nov 2011
The single most important document
This whitepaper explains the benefits of automation and enhanced controls with the IBM Cognos FSR solution.
Last updated: 23 Aug 2011
Twenty-three reasons why companies choose integrated XBRL
Benefits companies around the world have experienced as a result of choosing an integrated XBRL approach for the External Financial Reporting process.
Last updated: 23 Aug 2011
