Cognos solutions for Teradata

Public agencies the world over elevate their performance with the unprecedented visibility and control that only Cognos solutions can deliver. Government agencies at all levels and on every continent choose IBM Cognos solutions including:

• Human services agencies in Colorado, New York, and Massachusetts.
• Defense organizations in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States.
• Police forces in Germany, Holland, and the United States.
• Federal ministries in Austria, Belgium, and Canada.

A wide variety of solutions

Cognos software integrates with Teradata Solutions for Government to help joint customers improve intelligence, logistics, command and control, information management and operations functions, including:

• Managing and using data from multiple legacy systems.
• Reallocating resources in the face of changing priorities.
• Simulating "what if" scenarios using data to impact your situation.
• Driving the highest ROI at the lowest cost.

Blueprints for bettter 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.

The Cognos Program Objective Memorandum (POM) Blueprint helps public sector agencies increase management accountability, visibility and control of the POM process.

The Blueprint helps to establish an environment that enables budget owners to:

• Analyze trends, history and projections.
• Produce dynamic reports with hierarchical drilling capability from summary to detail and back.
• Create efficient and rapid changes across all levels.
• Provide a collaborative application with narrative ability.
• Plan for an entire year with the ability to submit modification.
• Perform "what-if" modeling and scenario analyses to compare alternatives.
• Improve budget accuracy and consistency through integrated planning and greater flexibility.