Cognos solutions for Teradata

Many of the top players in retail already choose Cognos solutions, including:

• Over 325 retail stores and chains globally.
• 30 percent of the world's top 250 retailers.
• 36 percent of the top 100 retailers in North America.

Cognos software is built to integrate seamlessly with Teradata's Enterprise Data Warehouse, and retail offerings including the Teradata Retail Logical Data Model, and Teradata's Retail Decisions Analytics.

To speed software deployments on Teradata and maximize ROI, IBM also offers a full suite of retail Performance Blueprints. Cognos Blueprints consist of pre-built data, process, and policy models based on proven best practices in retail planning, budgeting and forecasting. They provide the fastest means to effectively align strategy and execution. They include:

• The Cognos Store Operations (P&L) Blueprint: Integrated financial planning capabilities enabling retailers to perform collaborative store-level revenue and expense planning and ensure that individual store plans are in line with corporate targets.
• The Cognos Store Development Blueprint: Lets retailers understand what store development projects deliver the highest business benefits, best returns, and greatest support for corporate objectives. It allows chains to define initiatives for new stores, upgrades, or remodels; develop financial plans; apply initiatives to regions, stores, or groups of stores and communicate initiatives to store managers.
• The Cognos Strategic Promotion Planning Blueprint: Enables more efficient use of company and trade dollars to drive higher returns by empowering marketing executives and promotions managers to allocate marketing spend, model multiple scenarios and analyze and evaluate the success of their promotions.
• The IBM Cognos Financial Merchandise Planning Blueprint: Helps merchandising executives meet sales objectives and profitability goals through an improved merchandise planning process that is fully synchronized with other parts of the organization including finance, operations and marketing.
• The IBM Cognos Financial Workbench and Scorecard Blueprint: Allows retailers to model the financial impact of business decisions and gain a snapshot of performance for key metrics. This provides accountability to a single set of financial measures and business goals across the chain.

Learn more

• IBM Cognos software and Teradata retail solutions fact sheet (180KB)