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Learn how to gain new insights from available financial data from financial analytics experts
Financial analytics is a cross-enterprise discipline used to gain broad intelligence and deep insight from available information. Organizations that rely heavily on spreadsheets to make analytical decisions about profitability or resource optimization can benefit greatly from financial analytics and its timely cost analysis and profit insights.

Helping you extend your operational profitability to strategic management using the data you already have is one of the objectives of the Financial Analytics practice in the IBM Cognos Innovation Center. This community explores, discusses, gathers and shares resources about financial analytic topics. Here you can learn how experts from a wide variety of companies look at risk adjusted profitability, how they tie it into their strategic finance processes and initiatives and much more.

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Developed in collaboration with top-performing customers and performance management experts, IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints are pre-defined data, process and policy models that address functional process areas and the needs of specific industries.

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From the financial analytics resource center

• Profitability Analysis & Optimization: Gaining a competitive edge (175KB)

  Profitability analysis and optimization can have a huge impact on competitiveness and shareholder value. Read this white paper from BPM Partners to learn how activity-based costing (ABC) combined with multi-dimensional analytical tools can help your company significantly improve profitability.

• Financial Analysis Clears the Profit Haze (1.5MB)

  This white paper by Technology Evaluation Centers discusses the challenges that organizations face when trying to understand their existing business positions and future business scenarios. It focuses specifically on profitability analysis.

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