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DHL Express Germany

DHL Express Germany’s internal processes needed to be coordinated as effectively as possible in order to boost efficiency. With the ultimate aim of maintaining DHL’s leadership in the express market, the project also had to include the reorganization, expansion and standardi...
30 Oct 2009
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IFMC: Dynamic IBM Cognos dashboard for a nation-wide hospital reporting and payment initiative

Leveraging an existing IBM Cognos solution, IFMC chose to deploy an IBM Cognos system based on its successful track record and the results seen firsthand, rather than go through an evaluation process.
30 Oct 2009
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Mobile County (Alabama) Schools applies analytics to operations to transform student performance

The Mobile County school district engaged IBM and IBM Business Partner DecisionEd Group to implement a comprehensive business intelligence solution that provides a single, reliable, real-time source for student data and proactively alerts staff if a student crosses “at-risk”...
30 Oct 2009
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Star energises business reporting with a constellation of IBM Cognos software

Following the implementation of the IBM Cognos solution, managers at Star have faster access to more accurate, more detailed information than ever before. This has had a positive impact on decision-making processes throughout the business, helping Star to adapt quickly to ch...
13 Oct 2009
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Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District shows success with an IBM Cognos solution

Cypress-Fairbanks realized it needed to have more data on operations – its schools, students and classes – to be made available on the fly, when people needed them. Both a data warehouse and comprehensive reporting tool were needed to provide more structured information in m...
13 Oct 2009
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Oil and gas company, KJO, discovers blue-chip performance management

KJO needed to invest in updating its technology to provide timely and accurate information to its business operations and its shareholders. The functionality and ease of use offered by IBM Cognos software, and strong local representation provided KJO with both the technology...
13 Oct 2009
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Semler Services A/S

Create a transparent economy in the organisation, so that all management levels have the same picture and can pull in the same direction.
01 Oct 2009
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AirPlus Air Travel Card Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH

Growing volumes of data and a wider range of reporting requirements resulting from the company’s success
01 Oct 2009
9.

Loan servicing specialist extends market leadership with renewed competitive advantage using IBM middleware package

One Point Solutions’ and M Systems’ implementation of IBM software empowered Celink with the freedom to develop, the scalability to grow, and the business intelligence to make more informed decisions.
30 Sep 2009
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SONAX GmbH & Co. KG

SONAX needed a comprehensive view of all areas of its business. It wanted an analysis and planning solution that would allow for better decision-making. The solution also had to provide comprehensive, up-to-date decision-making information while integrating seamlessly with t...
28 Sep 2009
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Volksfürsorge

When Volksfürsorge was consolidating its BI tools, it needed to ensure that in addition to the solutions provided, support was available from a single source and the offering met all the organization’s requirements.
28 Sep 2009
12.

Lufthansa Cargo

Crucial to the carrier’s success in today’s highly competitive air-freight market is its ability to access business-critical information fast. To maintain a lead in this volatile market, Lufthansa Cargo relies on BI tools to conduct detailed evaluations of its operations.
28 Sep 2009
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Coloplast

Coloplast coordinates and align sales data over temporal, linguistic and geographical boundaries for a multinational organisation
25 Sep 2009
14.

Hanson Marine

Consolidate information from sea-going ships and numerous office locations globally to optimise business strategy
25 Sep 2009
15.

Arla Foods

As a result of the merger with MD Foods, Arla Foods became a large multinational with altered management reporting requirements. This required a top-down approach to corporate performance management (CPM) to enable a forwardlooking management focus.
23 Sep 2009
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Reichle & De-Massari AG

The IBM Cognos solution was an integrated BI, controlling and planning system that would open up a whole range of performance management possibilities for R&M. To move from a time-consuming and inflexible planning process based on spreadsheets to an efficient performance man...
23 Sep 2009
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Spain’s Ministry of Defence

Provide the Spanish Ministry of Defence’s human resources departments with technology for executive dashboards, easy access to historical information and automation of periodic tasks.
23 Sep 2009
18.

Bay Restaurant Group: Measuring performance with an IBM Cognos solution

The IBM Cognos 8 BI system provides instant dashboard access for Group managers, so that they can analyse promotions and trends, and manage staffing levels easily
18 Sep 2009
19.

Allgemeine Unfallversicherungsanstalt (AUVA)

When the data warehouse project began in 2000, they first needed to gather data about visits by safety experts, support costs and market share. Aim number two was to categorize operations in various ways and then create analyses of patients, patient frequency and details of ...
18 Sep 2009
20.

Best Water Technology (BWT)

Producing clarity is what the Best Water Technology (BWT) group does best. Active in all areas of water treatment, the group’s guiding principles are creating clarity and transparency as it generates economically and ecologically optimized products for the entire water cycle...
18 Sep 2009
21.

FIDUCIA IT AG

To meet the evolving needs of German banks, FIDUCIA has to offer value-added applications and services that help them stay competitive and attract new customers while minimizing IT costs, keeping business processes simple while maximizing security.
18 Sep 2009
22.

MAQUET GmbH & Co. KG

Above-average growth and a stronger competitive position prompted MAQUET to create new technological foundations for its in-house reporting. In the past, data had been sent by email, which needed to be consolidated manually. Find out what they did to overcome this.
18 Sep 2009
23.

Sonova Group

Sonova was looking for ways to make its planning and controlling processes more effective and provide greater support. The main challenge was to simplify planning by implementing an easy-to-use Web-based tool and to make their planning phases more transparent.
18 Sep 2009
24.

Arnold Jäger Holding

Develop a detailed, multilevel sales planning system encompassing commercial, production and project flows, with an integrated profit and loss statement for each of the 24 subsidiary companies and the entire group.
18 Sep 2009
25.

ASB-Landesverband Hessen

The ASB Hessen was experiencing problems because modern charities are businesses and need to meet the requirements of a member organization. They also need to be consistent and with 26 branches in Hessen, each ASB branch had a completely different structure and organization.
18 Sep 2009
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A $5.7 billion U.S. manufacturer drives down costs by unlocking the business value of information

Using IBM® Cognos® 8 Business Intelligence software, the company has been able to unlock the business value of information to optimize business performance.
15 Sep 2009
27.

George P. Johnson Co. delivers cutting-edge experience marketing with an IBM Cognos solution

After evaluating several products, George P. Johnson Co. chose the IBM® Cognos® solution for its performance, flexibility, ease of use and scalability
14 Sep 2009
28.

Agaplesion AG

Reforms to the German healthcare system mean that business factors have become important measurements for hospitals and other care facilities, in addition to medical indicators. The need to work profitably rather than simply be profit-oriented required Agaplesion to have eff...
14 Sep 2009
29.

From data and integration to smarter operations: Performance management at Dorel

Find out how Dorel leveraged IBM Cognos software to help integrate multiple data sources, and accelerate reporting and information delivery; provide in-depth insight into sales and revenues worldwide; gain fact-based analytic and decision-making capabilities; provide timely ...
14 Sep 2009
30.

Just Born: on-demand business intelligence sparks new market opportunities

Just Born set out to establish a list of business and technology objectives. At the top of the list was the goal to acquire accurate business intelligence (BI) to enhance its supply chain management (SCM), including the procurement of raw materials and determining the work-i...
13 Sep 2009

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