Small and midsize businesses in a wide range of industries use IBM Cognos software to manage operational costs, improve performance and gain competitive advantage.
The right technology and solutions
IBM Cognos performance management software delivers value to small and midsize businesses, enabling them to:
- Leverage existing data investments to gain real-time visibility (US) into business processes.
- Reduce costs (US) and improve efficiency across business units, operations or product lines.
- Track key business metrics and gauge the health of the organization.
- Increase customer loyalty through better customer insight.
- Gain visibility into risk positions and early warning indicators for risk exposures.
- Replace cumbersome spreadsheet-based systems (US) with flexible, connected planning software and reduce consolidation, close and reporting cycles (US) by days or weeks.
Flexible deployment
Small and midsize companies choose IBM Cognos solutions to provide flexible deployments that fit their needs and budgets, and can grow with their business:
- Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting: Blue Mountain (PDF, 141KB), TVGuide.com (PDF, 1.1MB), Bertucci's (PDF, 145KB)
- Reporting and analysis: ELM Resources (PDF, 237KB), Hallstar (PDF, 107KB), First Citizens (US)
- Scorecarding and dashboards: SONAX Group (PDF, 161KB)
The fastest methods
IBM has partnered with industry leaders and knowledge experts to create IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints. Blueprints provide streamlined planning, forecasting, analysis, and reporting functionality. They enable organizations to quickly align strategic objectives, operational plans, people, and activities. Most important, they help drive faster ROI and reduce total cost of ownership.
Popular small and medium business downloads
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Using BI and BPM to Address the Information Challenges of Midsize Companies
Learn about the challenges faced by organizations as they progress through the "midsize" stage. See how to use BI and BPM to meet those challenges in this paper from TEC.
IBM Cognos Express Overview
See integrated reporting, analysis and planning capabilities that can help your midsize business to drive greater efficiencies, manage costs and identify growth opportunities.
Driving Performance in the Mid-Market with a Best-in-Class BI Strategy
Aberdeen Group shows you a best-in-class BI strategy for midsize organizations (SMBs) and highlights the BI initiatives and strategy of Creativity, Inc.
Nucleus Research ROI Case Study: Blue Mountain Resorts
Improved profitability and an annual ROI of 1,822%. That's what Nucleus Research found when they calculated Blue Mountain Resort's total investment in IBM Cognos solutions.
Web Seminar On-DemandImproving Planning, Reporting and Analysis for Midsize Companies
Join John Hagerty of AMR Research as he discusses 2009-2010 planning, reporting and analysis priorities for midsize companies in this webcast from CFO.com.
Nucleus Research ROI Case Study: Envision Credit Union
Learn how Envision was able to improve productivity, reduce labor costs, and increase the amount of cash available for overnight investments with IBM Cognos TM1.
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Small and medium business Resources
- Online Demo: IBM Cognos Express Overview (32k)
See how IBM Cognos Express delivers breakthrough reporting, analysis and planning for midsize companies.
- White Paper: Why Performance Management? A Guide for the Midsize Organization (690KB)
Learn how to gain competitive advantage without breaking the bank.
- Analyst Report: Find your level of BI and Performance Management maturity (585KB)
See how IBM Cognos Express delivers value to midsize companies in this paper featuring research from Gartner.