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Decision management software

IBM Analytical Decision Management

Act with confidence to improve outcomes at the point of impact with IBM Analytical Decision Management. This platform delivers real-time recommendations for the next best action so that your organization consistently benefits from optimized decision-making.

By combining predictive analytics, local rules, scoring and optimization, this platform enables your organization to:

  • Enable real-time, adaptive decision-making
  • Deliver recommended actions at the point of impact
  • Automatically assess and optimize resource trade-offs

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Predictive analytics software

IBM SPSS Modeler

IBM SPSS® Modeler is an award-winning predictive and text analytics workbench that provides unprecedented insight into your data. It’s the “predictive engine” for IBM Analytical Decision Management. Enhancements with this release include:

  • Entity analytics, which makes it easier to identify non-obvious relationships and provide the most complete view of an individual record
  • Social Network Analysis, which discovers individuals who lead social networks and influence the behaviors of others to help drive your customer relationships
  • Integration with enterprise databases, which allows models to be deployed and scored within the database
  • Enhancements to in-database scoring and SQL pushback that increase speed and performance when analyzing “big data”

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Business intelligence software

IBM Cognos Express

Designed specifically for workgroups or midsize organizations looking for an integrated reporting, analysis and planning solution, IBM Cognos® Express provides everything you need for success in a self-contained solution that is simple to install, operate and grow.

Cognos Express now offers capabilities that make it easier than ever for business users to see critical aspects of their operation and take action:

  • IBM Cognos Insight, offering analytics on the desktop, with access to business intelligence and planning solutions
  • IBM Cognos Mobile and Apple iPad support, providing insight when you’re on the go
  • Active Report, for interaction when disconnected from your network
  • IBM Cognos Business Insight, a unified workspace for dashboard assembly, and Business Insight Advanced, for easy self-service reporting
  • IBM Cognos Performance Modeler for more powerful OLAP Modeling

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Performance management software

IBM Cognos FSR

IBM Cognos FSR is one of the most advanced solutions on the market for financial governance and disclosure management. By integrating XBRL into the external reporting process, IBM Cognos FSR makes the tagging, validation and creation of XBRL documents dramatically more efficient and less error prone, which is crucial in meeting statutory requirements for mandatory corporate reporting.

The latest release of Cognos FSR supports many global taxonomies – including GAAP and IFRS taxonomies – as well as industry-specific taxonomies such as Solvency II and COREP/FINREP. It also includes full audit trail and workflow functionality.

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IBM Cognos for Financial Close Management (FCM)

This new offering assists Finance professionals responsible for their company’s close, consolidate, report and file process. It combines the strengths of IBM Cognos FSR with those of IBM Cognos Controller. By facilitating data integration and automating the entire close process, the Cognos solution for Financial Close Management helps drive out process inefficiencies and minimize delays while providing complete visibility into the close process. It also makes Finance more self-sufficient in meeting the diverse and numerous needs that organizations have for timely access to financial data and reports.

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Risk management software

IBM OpenPages GRC Platform

With the IBM OpenPages® GRC Platform, your organization gains greater insight into all aspects of enterprise wide governance, risk and compliance initiatives. The OpenPages Platform smoothly adapts to your company's unique risk management methodologies, taxonomies and business practices.

This release of the OpenPages GRC Platform adds significant enhancements to the Policy and Compliance Management (PCM) module that make it easier to import and convert text files, monitor changes to them and manage workflows. In addition, usability features for search, editing and configuration have been updated.

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Better outcomes with IBM Analytical Decision Management

Confidently make the right decisions to link strategy to execution for better outcomes in real time, every time.

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IBM SPSS Modeler Overview

IBM SPSS Modeler is a powerful, versatile data and text analytics workbench. Build accurate predictive models quickly and intuitively, without programming.

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Business Intelligence that's always just right

Cover the BI spectrum with this IBM Cognos 10 family of products: Cognos Insight for individuals, Cognos Express for workgroups and Cognos Enterprise for the entire organization.

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Keep up with what's new

IBM Business Analytics training offers new and updated courses so you can make the most of your IBM software.

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“IBM Cognos offers us a world of possibilities. Our current solution is both sustainable and scalable – and as we extend it, it will improve our business processes even further. We're absolutely confident we've made the right decision with Cognos.”

Iain Stockill, MIS Manager for Africa/Asia, SABMiller

“The business has certainly saved a lot of the time that we used to spend generating weekly and monthly reports. However there’s potential for even greater returns from being able to make changes to the business as the result of analysing the data.

Scott MacDonald, Chief Financial Officer, Easts Group

“As the reporting requirements have evolved, Cognos has helped us keep pace with the needs of the business – and we are confident that we will be able to extend the solution to meet future requirements too.”

William Etchell, Director of Finance, BPP

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“Having one platform …. is critical for speed of decision-making, This ensures confidence in information, and dramatically reduces the cost of ownership within IT.”

Imad Jawadi, Manager, Financial Systems, OMERS

“All our financial reporting and planning processes are handled by Cognos Business Intelligence and Cognos TM1, and we have also started using these tools to provide rapid insight into operational areas such as sales, pricing and inventory.”

Phyllis Tsu, CIO at Smith & Associates

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“IBM Cognos Insight provides much faster creation of dashboards for any executive to gain better insight into their organization. With its ‘remote use’ capability it provides enormous benefits to management on the move, providing collaboration and planning contribution capabilities all in one product.”

Adrian Webster, Director, Budgeting Solutions

“Cognos Insight moves the end-user self-service modeling – with TM1's control, efficiency, and modeling ease for the enterprise.”

Jack Purvis, Senior Manager, BI/PM, DIRECTV

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“The release of TM1 10.1 is a major step forward for IBM, bringing together a number of exciting new features that will both enhance the established, best-of-breed TM1 enterprise server and empower TM1 users in ways that previously weren’t possible. TM1 10.1 introduces Cognos Insight, which gives any level of TM1 user easy-to-use capabilities to bring together and explore large quantities of data from a variety of sources, create personal dashboards and visualize their findings in new and creative ways, and ultimately enables better and faster decisions.”

Mike Cowie, Director of Strategic Solutions, QueBIT Consulting

“IBM Cognos Performance Modeler will level set our development practices, allowing our less senior TM1 developers to ramp up quickly, and allow our senior TM1 developers to focus on the most complex developments.”

Jack Purvis, Senior Manager, BI/PM, DIRECTV

“TM1 now provides features such as its link functionality, consolidated element data entry, and better GUIs overall -- that make planning and planning design much more accessible to non-technical users. With this streamlining of modeling and the greater levels of user analysis and contribution via a distributed architecture, plans can be much aligned easier and faster.”

Adrian Webster, Director, Budgeting Solutions