Cognos solutions for Teradata

Over 1,000 retail, corporate, and investment banking institutions trust Cognos software to increase customer, product and channel profitability, manage and reduce risk, address compliance issues and improve the predictability of financial performance. Our customers include nine of the top 10 banks in Europe, all the top 10 banks in the USA, and all of the top 10 commercial banks in the world.

With Cognos solutions and Teradata, financial services organizations are transforming their data into valuable enterprise business intelligence to help identify high-value customers, reduce customer attrition, maximize With Cognos solutions and Teradata, financial services organizations are transforming their data into valuable enterprise business intelligence to help identify high-value customers, reduce customer attrition, maximize channel profitability and optimize promotions to gain market share.

Cognos software can leverage Teradata's Financial Services Logical Data Model to provide comprehensive performance management solutions.

Blueprints for better performance

Cognos Performance Blueprints are pre-defined data, process, and policy software models that enable organizations to quickly align strategic objectives, operational plans, people and activities. They are free of charge to IBM customers and currently include:

• Risk-Adjusted Profitability Blueprint: Improve your planning accuracy and strengthen the link between your finance and risk organizaitons with multi-dimensional, product-level profitability plans and forecasts.
• Retail Branch Performance Blueprint: Ensure organization-wide alignment with strategic objectives through detailed, top-down and branch-up revenue and expense planning
• Corporate Banking Customer Segment Performance Blueprint: Enables commercial, corporate and investment banks to create profit and loss statements for customer segments or for large, individual corporate customers. Managers can report on and analyze profitability and plan initiatives to improve segment results.
• Retail Banking Customer Segment Performance Blueprint: Create profit and loss statements at the customer segment level and report on and analyze profitability. It also helps managers plan sales and marketing initiatives to improve segment results.