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Abstracts
Performance Manager Book Abstract
The Performance Manager, Proven Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance Book.
Last updated: 03 May 2009
Analyst reports
Analyst Report: Powering next-generation BI systems
Ovum Research Report: Read how joint IBM Cognos-Power System clients can build and deploy a high-performance and reliable server platform.
Last updated: 05 Nov 2009
Butler Group - Technology Audit - IBM Cognos 8 BI
IBM Cognos 8 BI is a single, integrated, enterprise-class BI and CPM product constructed around a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Last updated: 04 Nov 2009
Gartner Case Study - BCBST Organizes Centrally and Plans Ahead to Achieve Its BI & PM Goals
BCBS of Tenn's DM and Info Delivery group anticipated the need for PM and repared and promoted a strategy before the business requested it.
Last updated: 04 Nov 2009
Nucleus Research - IBM and SPSS - Analytics for everyone
IBM's SPSS acquisition gives SPSS users a broader support network, IBM Cognos users a predictive analytics platform, and more enterprise users one-stop shopping.
Last updated: 04 Nov 2009
Nucleus Research Finds 3,623% ROI at US Lumber
Learn how US Lumber was able to improve productivity, reduce inventory levels, accelerate accounts receivable turnover and reduce capital costs with IBM Cognos solutions.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2009
Gartner - Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2009
The Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms presents a global view of Gartner's opinion of the main software vendors that should be considered by organizations seeking to develop business intelligence (BI) applications.
Last updated: 15 Apr 2009
Pervasive Performance Management Transforms a Manufacturing Environment
Discover how Vicor has linked every employee and customer order to its strategic objectives and increased margins by 20 percentage points.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
BARC Report - Organization of Business Intelligence
From IC. Discover the five factors that lead to pervasive BI, such as user training, executive support, data governance and the presence of a performance management methodology.
Last updated: 20 Mar 2009
Nucleus ROI Case Study - IBM Cognos U.S. Army
Read how The United States Army’s Armament Research Development and Engineering Center saw an ROI of 146% and payback in 1.5 years by upgrading to IBM Cognos 8 BI version 3 and creating a competency center for the propagation and standardization of BI-related best practices.
Last updated: 20 Mar 2009
Briefs
IBM Cognos Promotion Planning Performance Blueprint: Maximize marketing spend and vendor trade funds
A review of the IBM Cognos Promotion Planning Performance Blueprint, a performance management framework that gives retailers complete visibility into their promotional activities so they can accurately plan, measure and report on their marketing spend -- and the return it generates.
Last updated: 19 May 2009
Retail: IBM Cognos Financial Workbench and Scorecard Performance Blueprint
This Performance Blueprint provides tools for integrated company-wide planning and analysis. Integrated operational plans and standardized metrics allow retailers to meet growth and profitability objectives while providing the best shopping experience for customers.
Last updated: 15 May 2009
IBM Content Discovery for Business Intelligence
Take one step closer to realizing the vision of "BI for everyone", using an open framework to build applications that process information to find latent meaning, relationships and relevant facts hidden in unstructured text.
Last updated: 12 Dec 2006
Brochures
Solutions for the Office of Finance
This brochure explains how IBM Cognos solutions for the Office of Finance provide shorter cycles for planning and budgeting, improved forecast reliability, faster processes for close, consolidation and reporting, and better control over financial and operational performance with assured regulatory compliance.
Last updated: 05 May 2009
Jump Start Mid-Sized Warehousing and Departmental Reporting Implementations with IBM InfoSphere™ Balanced Warehouse™ C-Class Offerings
When it comes to business and technology, one size doesn’t fit all. Mid-sized businesses simply do not have massive IT teams and multi million dollar budgets. You need flexible, out-of-the-box technology solutions that are easy to implement and provide immediate value. IBM is listening!
Last updated: 01 Apr 2009
IBM Banking Data Warehouse General Information Manual
IBM Banking Data Warehouse General Information Manual explains the business value of designing a performance management solution, comprised of a data warehouse and data marts or OLAP cubes, using a proven, business-centric blueprint.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
IBM Banking Process and Service Models General Information Manual
Explains the business value of building a service-oriented architecture or new core system, or streamlining business processes using a proven, business-centric blueprint for banking.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
Case studies
Building Success, One Set at a Time: Performance Management at Mueller
Read this case study to learn why Mueller selected IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence for reporting and analysis, and IBM Cognos Metrics Manager and IBM Cognos 8 Planning to further its scorecard and financial planning initiatives.
Last updated: 13 May 2009
Providing Cost Efficient Care at Martin\'s Point
Find out how Martin's Point is using IBM Cognos 8 BI to save money and how they transformed a reporting process that took weeks into one that occurs in seconds. Learn how they answer tough questions, identify patients at risk, and monitor vital business statistics throughout the organization.
Last updated: 06 May 2009
Building Success, One Set at a Time: Performance Management at Mueller
Find out how Mueller, Inc. uses IBM Cognos software to save time and money, and why they won a Balanced Scorecard award for their implementation.
Last updated: 05 May 2009
Data sheets
IBM Cognos 8 Mashup Service
Discover how to extend IBM Cognos BI content into applications, processes and mashups.
Last updated: 21 Oct 2009
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Competency Center
Organizations look for ways to manage and support BI deployments through the standardization of technology. A BICC provides the best practices needed to broaden the use of BI.
Last updated: 14 Jul 2009
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Scorecarding
Use IBM Cognos 8 Scorecarding to manage the full scope of your business processes.
Last updated: 25 Jun 2009
IBM Cognos 8 Performance Management Solutions for SAP
This describes how IBM Cognos BI solutions in conjunction with SAP allows for greater simplicity, allowing a wide range of users to access timely data and easily customize it.
Last updated: 25 Jun 2009
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Competency Center Service
Organizations that take a measured, well-managed approach to establishing a Business Intelligence Competency Center are more likely to succeed. Here's how IBM can help.
Last updated: 25 Jun 2009
Service Level Performance Management
IBM Cognos BPO solutions offer a platform for continual identification, monitoring and review of the service level metrics specified in your SLAs.
Last updated: 25 Jun 2009
IBM Cognos software and Netezza
IBM Cognos solutions and Netezza work together to deliver a performance management platform that speeds decision-making across your enterprise.
Last updated: 23 Jun 2009
IBM Cognos 8 BI and IBM WebSphere Information Integration Solution
With IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and IBM WebSphere, IT can remove the barriers to an integrated architecture with interoperability among heterogeneous environments.
Last updated: 02 Jun 2009
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and IBM Information Server
The seamless integration of IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and IBM Information Server makes it possible to streamline and unify data, and provide simple access for users.
Last updated: 02 Jun 2009
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and Performance Management for Teradata
With more than 180 joint customers from various industries, IBM and Teradata create the right framework for better business decisions with a comprehensive, single view of business performance.
Last updated: 02 Jun 2009
BI Architectural Design
The BI architecture design package provides you with proven methods to build and manage the growth of your BI architecture over the long term.
Last updated: 25 May 2009
BI Design Expertise
The BI Design Expertise service enables you to understand, implement, validate, and apply proven practices within your environment.
Last updated: 25 May 2009
BI Health Assessment
The BI Health Assessment helps you identify environmental weaknesses or deficiencies so that plans can be made to mitigate their associated risks.
Last updated: 25 May 2009
BI Installation and Configuration
The BI Installation and Configuration work package provides you with the assistance you need to successfully install your IBM Cognos BI software solution.
Last updated: 25 May 2009
BI Performance Tuning
The BI Performance Tuning tests provide the optimal tuning parameters for your specific situation and identify potential weak points or break points in your infrastructure.
Last updated: 25 May 2009
BI Report Optimization
This package helps you create more accurate, targeted reports and achieve a high rate of user adoption, which translates into better decision-making across your organization.
Last updated: 25 May 2009
CIO Solution Set
Capgemini's CIO Solution Set is a comprehensive solution that addresses the primary issues of today's CIO, combining technology and services into an integrated solution.
Last updated: 25 May 2009
IBM Cognos 8 Platform
Through the IBM Cognos OEM Partnership Program you can easily integrate leading performance management capabilities into your solutions.
Last updated: 25 May 2009
IBM Cognos BI Migration Services
IBM Cognos BI Migration Services provides you with the expertise to successfully migrate your existing IBM Cognos Series 7 applications to IBM Cognos 8 BI.
Last updated: 25 May 2009
IBM Cognos BI Model Optimization
The BI Model Optimization package ensures your metadata model is optimized to take full advantage of all IBM Cognos 8 BI features, and that the solution meets your overall needs.
Last updated: 25 May 2009
IBM Cognos Discovery and Validation Workshop
This workshop helps you document your goals and challenges, both business and technical, and charts out a roadmap for project success.
Last updated: 25 May 2009
IBM Cognos 8 BI Data Modeler for IBM Lotus Domino
Learn how IBM Cognos 8 Data Modeler for IBM Lotus Notes Domino bridges the gap between your business intelligence (BI) infrastructure and the data residing in your IBM Lotus Notes applications.
Last updated: 13 May 2009
IBM Cognos 8 Performance Management Solutions for SAP
Learn how using IBM Cognos 8 BI in conjunction with SAP R/3, SAP BW and SAP NetWeaver can reduce IT backlog, enable a wider distribution of information from SAP and non-SAP data sources, and lower your total cost of ownership.
Last updated: 13 May 2009
IBM Cognos 8 BI: The Platform of Choice for Software as a Service
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence delivers all BI capabilities in a single product, on a single architecture. This completeness and simplicity makes it ideal for software as a service providers.
Last updated: 06 May 2009
BI Design Review
The BI Design Review work package is delivered by certified and experienced IBM Cognos consultants who will help you navigate through implementation issues. Upon completion of analysis and reviews, the consultants deliver a review document covering all the important components of implementation.
Last updated: 20 Apr 2009
IBM Cognos 8 Data Manager
IBM Cognos 8 Data Manager provides dimensional extract, transform, load (ETL) capabilities including data merging, extraction, transformation and dimensional management to deliver a data warehouse optimized for high performance business intelligence.
Last updated: 20 Apr 2009
IBM Cognos BI Model Review
The IBM Cognos BI Model Review work package provides valuable insight at either the Design or Build phase of your BI project.
Last updated: 20 Apr 2009
IBM Cognos BI Security Review
The BI Security Review work package is a critical step to ensuring the security of your data and processes at all stages of your BI rollout. It is a comprehensive assessment of the access and control aspects of your BI environment and implementation.
Last updated: 20 Apr 2009
IBM Cognos 8 BI for HP Neoview
IBM Cognos 8 BI brings HP Neoview customers a BI solution that doesn't just connect users with data - it connects users with the business, offering managed reporting supported by self-service queries. Using scorecards and dashboard visuals, decision-makers can stay connected and focus on critical issues.
Last updated: 10 Apr 2009
IBM Cognos BI Operational and Architecture Management
The IBM Cognos BI Operational and Architecture Management work package is designed to give you longer term support and direction, knowledge transfer, or to provide additional support to your server administration staff.
Last updated: 10 Apr 2009
IBM Cognos BI Operational and Architecture Management
The IBM Cognos BI Operational and Architecture Management work package is designed to give you longer term support and direction, knowledge transfer, or to provide additional support to your server administration staff.
Last updated: 10 Apr 2009
IBM Cognos BI Report Migration Offshore Service
When migrating your BI or reporting environment to the next level, our offshore and onshore consultants work with you to move reports from IBM Cognos Series 7 or IBM Cognos ReportNet to IBM Cognos 8 BI.
Last updated: 10 Apr 2009
IBM Cognos Guardian Services
IBM Cognos Guardian Services includes a range of services defined within two categories: Review work packages and Realize work packages. These work packages are delivered by highly qualified IBM Cognos consultants who can help you navigate through implementation issues.
Last updated: 10 Apr 2009
IBM Cognos Guardian Services
IBM Cognos Guardian Services includes a range of services defined within two categories: Review work packages and Realize work packages. These work packages are delivered by highly qualified IBM Cognos consultants who can help you navigate through implementation issues.
Last updated: 10 Apr 2009
IBM Cognos Jump-Start Services
Jump-Start Services provide you with specific, predefined IBM Cognos expertise and project management through five crucial project phases: analysis, design, build, deployment and operation.
Last updated: 10 Apr 2009
IBM Cognos Learning Assessment
The IBM Cognos Learning Assessment work package delivers a customized education plan to functional users (model developers, authors and application architects),technical users (administrators, application developers and technical architects) and business users (project managers, executives, and end users).
Last updated: 10 Apr 2009
IBM Cognos Virtual View Manager
IBM Cognos Virtual View Manager provides high performance federated access allowing data from disparate sources to be combined and simplified and then delivered through views which provide relevance and meaning to the end users by combining data into a single view.
Last updated: 10 Apr 2009
IBM Cognos 8 Framework Manager
IBM Cognos 8 Framework Manager delivers a common platform of consistent information that is shared on an enterprise scale, and used by all BI capabilities. The IBM Cognos 8 Framework Manager metadata model is able to represent both relational and dimensional data.
Last updated: 07 Apr 2009
IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint
IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint offers a new way of managing dimensional data, enabling business users to maintain, govern and share consistent business viewpoints on results, operations, and strategy.
Last updated: 09 Oct 2008
IBM Cognos 8 Go! Dashboard
IBM Cognos 8 Go! Dashboard is Flash-based software that lets you assemble and interact with sophisticated dashboards from trusted, report-ready information. Deliver a single view of the information that matters most to business users with easy-to-use software.
Last updated: 09 Oct 2008
IBM Cognos 8 BI Report Pack for Seibel CRM
IBM Cognos 8 Report Packs extend the value of current enterprise investments by providing the ability for business users to combine historic data from the data warehouse with current data in your Siebel CRM system.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2008
IBM Cognos 8 Go! Mobile
IBM Cognos 8 Go! Mobile is a BI solution for executives and mobile workers who need immediate access and interaction with timely, personalized, and secure BI information on their mobile device.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2008
IBM Cognos 8 Go! Office
IBM Cognos 8 Go! Office brings trusted business intelligence data to familiar Office applications like Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. You can use Office to exploit IBM Cognos 8 BI content while streamlining administration and extending the value of both investments.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2008
IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search
IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search is a search capability that enables users to instantly find relevant, strategic enterprise information available through IBM Cognos 8 BI. With a browser-based search that ranks results, it delivers an easy way for users to find data presented in reports, dashboards, analyses, metrics, and events.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2008
Demos
Insurance Product Profitability Performance Blueprint
This Blueprint offers a logical approach to assessing insurance product performance in the context of corporate goals and objectives and budget and forecast constraints.
Last updated: 09 Nov 2009
Predictive Analytics in a Banking Scenario
See how IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence can deliver the ability to sense, respond, predict and act by using predictive analytics capabilities.
Last updated: 06 Nov 2009
Earned Value Management Performance Blueprint Online Demo
This demonstration introduces a Web-based planning and reporting process for managing and measuring public sector project costs using IBM Cognos 8 Planning and IBM Cognos 8 BI.
Last updated: 05 Nov 2009
Drive Smarter Decisions by Addressing the Analysis Needs of All Users
Learn about the styles of analysis: Analytical Reporting, Trending, Scenario Analysis and Predictive Analytics, and how you can make these styles available to support your users.
Last updated: 04 Nov 2009
Capital Project Planning Performance Blueprint V2
The IBM Cognos Capital Project Planning Performance Blueprint maximizes insight into capital expenditure requests and their relationships to asset classes and strategy maps, which drive stronger business performance better aligned with corporate goals and strategic initiatives.
Last updated: 20 May 2009
Workforce Performance Application
See pre-packaged HR reports, how to adapt them, and extending reports into the full IBM Cognos 8 platform.
Last updated: 04 May 2009
IBM Cognos Now Demo
See how users build and edit their own dashboards quickly and easily.
Last updated: 16 Apr 2009
IBM Cognos Scorecarding and the Balanced Scorecard
See how IBM Cognos 8 BI and the balanced scorecard provide an integrated framework for linking performance to strategy.
Last updated: 16 Apr 2009
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Complete capabilities in one product, on a single architecture. See key features for both business and IT users, including Framework Manager, the Administration Console, and integration with Microsoft Excel.
Last updated: 08 Sep 2008
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Reporting
See real-world reporting scenarios for casual business users and professional report authors.
Last updated: 08 Sep 2008
Evaluation guides
SCOR Performance Blueprint Evaluation Guide
The SCOR Blueprint provides the scorecarding, dashboards, analytics and business intelligence needed for a complete picture of supply chain performance. Read how it can help you.
Last updated: 27 Aug 2009
Cognos Retail Banking Customer Segment Performance Blueprint
This Performance Blueprint enables retail banks to 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.
Last updated: 12 May 2009
Cognos Sales Quota Allocation Performance Blueprint
This Performance Blueprint enables incentive compensation analysts and sales managers at pharmaceutical companies to determine the proper sales quota for each territory, addressing changing market conditions while meeting corporate revenue objectives.
Last updated: 12 May 2009
Financial Services: Client Servicing Performance Blueprint
The IBM Cognos Client Servicing Blueprint helps businesses provide the service their clients need, helping to retain and build client relationships. The IBM Cognos Client Servicing Blueprint includes a Wealth Manager Dashboard, statement reporting, and self-servicing capabilities.
Last updated: 05 May 2009
Magazines
BI Strategies Series: Broad User Adoption
This paper describes in order to attain broad user adoption of your BI implementation, an enterprise-wide, standards-based approach is one of the best ways to make that happen.
Last updated: 25 Jun 2009
Presentations
Technical Discussion: Embrace, Enhance and Extend Your Investment in SAP BW
Discover how SAP customers are benefiting from true business self-service and tight integration and interoperability with SAP NetWeaver BI. IBM Cognos 8 is proven and available today to help you embrace, enhance and extend your investments in SAP BW, Business Suite and R/3 and SAP NetWeaver applications.
Last updated: 21 May 2009
Data Modeler for Notes: A Step-by-Step Demo
See how to generate IBM Cognos 8 BI metadata models for IBM Lotus Notes databases through an easy-to-use wizard interface.
Last updated: 23 Apr 2009
Solution sheets
Customer care for the airline industry
IBM presents a customer care for aviation solution that combines business know-how and a flexible framework—and does not require complete replacement of existing systems.
Last updated: 18 Oct 2008
Customer care for the hospitality industry
IBM presents a customer care for hospitality solution that combines business know-how and a flexible framework—and does not require complete replacement of existing systems.
Last updated: 18 Oct 2008
IBM Cognos 8 BI: Adaptive Authoring with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Read how the IBM Cognos 8 BI Adaptive Authoring Environment delivers three key benefits which simplify the BI authoring process to help reduce the IT backlog of requests.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2008
IBM Cognos 8 BI: Easier to Deploy and Manage with IBM Cognos 8 BI
When organizations discover how BI drives higher performance, they inevitably expand their use of BI, tapping into additional data sources and delivering more information in more ways to greater numbers of users throughout the enterprise. IBM Cognos 8 BI makes it easier to deploy and manage your BI.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2008
IBM Cognos 8 BI: Integration with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Read how IBM Cognos 8 BI integrates with your existing environment and bridges the gaps between user groups, multiple data sources, and security systems. Use the Web services-based architecture to leverage your existing IT assets and infrastructure to reduce complexity and deliver reliable, available, scalable information.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2008
Webcast
End the Confusion, Build Confidence in BI
Reduce the amount of time you spend answering business users' questions about what data means. Learn how you can enhance their understanding of information and its source.
Last updated: 05 Nov 2009
How to Deliver Information Your Users Will Trust
See how IBM Cognos 8 and IBM InfoSphere solutions enable a more consistent level of governance and control.
Last updated: 05 Nov 2009
Predictive analytics with IBM Cognos 8 BI and IBM InfoSphere Warehouse
Learn how predictive analytics can help you balance dozens of variables to gain accurate insight into your business.
Last updated: 05 Nov 2009
Cognos & Chevron: IBM Cognos 8 Performance Management for use with SAP® applications (Webinar On-demand)
Discover how Chevron, second-largest integrated energy company in the US, embraced their investment in SAP® NetWeaver applications and expanded their reach across global systems.
Last updated: 28 Oct 2009
BI Reporting: Improving decision-making abilities for midsize organizations (Webinar On-demand)
Apply the lessons from this webinar on-demand to your own processes and challenges to reap greater BI effectiveness at lower cost.
Last updated: 27 May 2009
Maximize Value from Your SAP Investment with BI & Performance Management
Join Mark Smith Ventana Research to learn more about why a unified PM platform can be the best means to drive additional value from your SAP investment. Listen to the firsthand impacts of using a fragmented platform as Mark shares his unique insight into why PM is a strategic imperative.
Last updated: 26 May 2009
Performance Management: Enhance and Extend Your Investment in SAP Software
Discover how to drive better decisions and business performance with information based on user needs.
Last updated: 26 May 2009
BI and Performance Management for your SAP Investment
Discover how to increase the value of your SAP applications and data with SAP-certified BI and PM software from IBM
Last updated: 22 May 2009
White papers
Enabling Right-Time Insight for Performance Management
Learn how IBM InfoSphere change data capture and IBM Cognos performance management solutions provide access to the trusted information for better decisions.
Last updated: 05 Nov 2009
Performance Management with Trusted Information
Discover how IBM clients have overcome the challenges of "dirty data" using IBM InfoSphere software. Includes examples from pharmaceutical, healthcare and manufacturing.
Last updated: 05 Nov 2009
IBM Cognos 8 BI Software for use with SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator
Learn about the seamless integration between IBM Cognos 8 BI And SAP BW Data Accelerator and read the performance test results.
Last updated: 22 Oct 2009
Understanding the Components of Business Confidence
Read how to increase IT and business users' confidence in the data they use to drive decisions using IBM Cognos 8 BI.
Last updated: 30 Jul 2009
Next Generation Forecasting: How Rolling Forecasts Can Rescue Your Company's Performance
Read how rolling forecasting supported by IBM Cognos planning solutions can provide the kind of information and recalculations you need for planning in the current economy.
Last updated: 19 Jun 2009
Picturing Performance Dashboards and Scorecards with IBM Cognos software
This white paper outlines the three types of dashboards (operational, tactical, strategic) as described by TDWI's Wayne Eckerson and illustrates how to build them using IBM Cognos Now! and IBM Cognos 8 BI. Explains the role of dashboarding in a performance management deployment.
Last updated: 30 May 2009
Meeting the needs of professional users with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Delivering timely analysis to professional users with IBM Cognos 8 BI version 8.4, a customizable business intelligence solution that enables better decision-making.
Last updated: 29 May 2009
Meeting the needs of professional users with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Delivering timely analysis to professional users with IBM Cognos 8 BI version 8.4, a customizable business intelligence solution that enables better decision-making.
Last updated: 26 May 2009
Information On Demand Framework for Business Intelligence
IBM provides end-to-end information infrastructure capabilities for business intelligence (BI) through its industry-leading solutions.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
Performance Management with Trusted Information: How IBM InfoSphere software can enhance your investment in IBM Cognos
Examine the business rationale for deploying a Cognos-based performance management solution using proven, information architecture. Look at challenges such as how to avoid dirty data and a lack of consolidated reporting. Learn how IBM clients using IBM InfoSphere software, have overcome them and how to get started.
Last updated: 18 Oct 2008
Better system management: Build expertise in managing your BI environment
Maximizing investments with the IBM Cognos 8 BI platform and a System Management Methodology. Proactive administration and strategic value in a single architecture.
Last updated: 09 Oct 2008
Cognos 8 BI: WP: How IBM Cognos 8 BI Meets the Needs of Financial and Business Analysts
IBM Cognos 8 BI gives financial and business analysts the tools to dig deep into a broad range of organizational data and give them unparalleled analytical flexibility, as well as the right data to build advanced statistical models that help shape business strategies, tactics and drive corporate strategy.
Last updated: 09 Oct 2008
IBM Cognos 8 BI: How IBM Cognos 8 BI Meets the Needs of Business Managers
IBM Cognos 8 BI gives business managers the capability they need to do the seemingly impossible; to actively track performance against metrics and make higher quality, more timely decisions within an increasingly fast-paced environment.
Last updated: 09 Oct 2008
IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint: Dimension management at the speed of business
IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint offers a solution that enables business users to maintain, govern and share consistent viewpoints on results, operations, and strategy. It ensures integration and transparency across applications and delivers centralized management for synchronizing dimensional information.
Last updated: 09 Oct 2008
IBM Cognos 8 Data Manager: Data integration for the last mile to BI
An accessible, consistent and resilient solution in IBM Cognos 8 Data Manager. See key features, including dimensional frameworks, hierarchy management and programmability
Last updated: 09 Oct 2008
Meeting the needs of your organization with IBM Cognos 8 BI
IBM Cognos 8 BI version 8.4 combines an industry leading set of capabilities with a user interface that seamlessly integrates into a broad range of existing tools. It empowers your users at all levels of the organization while building a solid foundation for continuous improvements to your PM capabilities.
Last updated: 09 Oct 2008
IBM Cognos: Performance Management in Healthcare
This issue paper examines how certain trends like patient centered care, the demands of accountability, and rising costs are transforming health care as hospitals strive to become more efficient in the way they manage their resources and deliver quality service.
Last updated: 27 Sep 2008
IBM Cognos 8 BI: Picturing Performance Dashboards and Scorecards with IBM Cognos 8 BI
This white paper outlines the three types of dashboards (operational, tactical, strategic) as described by TDWI's Wayne Eckerson and illustrates how to build them using IBM Cognos Now! and IBM Cognos 8 BI. Explains the role of dashboarding in a performance management deployment.
Last updated: 27 Sep 2008
Reporting with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Read how IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence delivers complete reporting to all users with one business intelligence product—to make it simpler, faster, and easier to manage.
Last updated: 27 Sep 2008
The Full Promise of IBM Cognos 8 BI
Read about the value of a Web services architecture, how IBM Cognos 8 BI provides all capabilities to all users, leverages all data, and how IBM Cognos 8 BI provides a foundation for performance management.
Last updated: 27 Sep 2008
The Strategic Importance of OLAP and Multidimensional Analysis
Read how OLAP give organizations the deep business insight needed to make more informed decisions.
Last updated: 27 Sep 2008
IBM Cognos 8 BI: Rapid scorecarding for financial services
Scorecarding with IBM Cognos 8 BI organizations allows financial services organization to consolidate performance data from disparate sources into a coherent system that people can trust. They can create their own truth scorecards that help them firmly pinpoint opportunities and roadblocks in key functional areas.
Last updated: 26 Sep 2008
IBM Cognos 8 BI: Scorecarding for the Public Sector
Brett Knowles, one of North America's leading authorities on the Balanced Scorecard, discusses some unique public sector issues and proven solutions.
Last updated: 26 Sep 2008
Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting: Simplify the IT Environment, Reduce Your TCO and Increase Your ROI.
The reasons driving standardization in BI and reporting are core to every company; cutting costs, boosting revenue, and increasing profits. IBM Cognos 8 BI lets business users move among capabilities in a guided way, get the answers they seek, and collaborate while giving IT complete control over the BI environment.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2008
IBM Cognos 8 BI: A BI Agenda for Midsize Organizations
This white paper describes performance management requirements for midsize organizations, and provide six strategies for success drawn from the experiences of actual IBM Cognos customers.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2008
IBM Cognos 8 BI: BI for Business Users
Find out how the flexible access to information inherent in IBM Cognos 8 BI gives business users the answers they need regardless of location or environment. Discover how IBM Cognos 8 BI delivers a guided experience and information in context so anyone can find, share, and act on information when they need it most.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2008
IBM Cognos 8 BI: IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and IBM: Two Industry Leaders; One Powerful Result
Read how integrating IBM Cognos BI software with IBM software, hardware, and middleware provides organizations with the ability to effectively manage performance and improve their success.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2008
IBM Cognos 8 BI: IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence for professional users
An organization needs an end-to-end view of their business; a flexible solution that leverages existing IT infrastructure, is truly scalable, and has the ability to grow. IBM Cognos 8 BI offers professional report authors a single, Web-based reporting solution that can address all of their reporting needs.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2008
IBM Cognos 8 BI: Integrating, Modeling, and Managing Data to Drive Performance
This paper describes how the IBM Cognos 8 platform enables data managers to provide business users with consistent access to information they understand, own, and can trust to drive higher performance.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2008
IBM Cognos 8 BI: Scorecarding with IBM Cognos 8 BI: Monitor, Manage, and Perform.
IBM Cognos 8 BI scorecarding is software that lets you create, manage, and present your company’s critical metrics. It lets you create a consistent and reliable source of metrics for individual employees, managers, and executives; linking individual decisions, tactics, and accountability to goals and strategy.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2008
IBM Cognos 8 BI: Testing the Typical BI Day
Learn about the scalability testing performed on IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence at the IBM Center for Business Partners. IBM Cognos 8 BI is the first simple, complete, and proven enterprise BI platform to address all the needs of BI in one product on a single architecture.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2008
IBM Cognos 8 BI for Salesforce
Access data from Salesforce.com and combine it with current and historical data from other systems and applications for a complete, consistent view of your sales performance.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2008
The Right Architecture for Business Intelligence
Read why the right architecture is a key factor in successful BI deployments and how the single, open IBM Cognos 8 BI architecture can reduce IT workload, improve productivity, and make better use of your IT budget.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2008
IBM Cognos: Building a Business Intelligence Competency Center: Establishing a Culture of Best Practices
Learn how a BICC can strengthen your BI understanding, planning and communication and determine how to establish an initial plan to define your BICC charter.
Last updated: 24 Sep 2008
IBM Cognos 8 BI: Government Performance Management
IBM Cognos 8 BI provides a platform for government performance management; leveraging critical data, and delivering the scorecarding, reporting, analysis and planning tools you need to optimize performance. Use IBM Cognos 8 BI to improve your understanding of business and your ability to make timely, informed decisions.
Last updated: 05 Sep 2008
BI for Business Users
Find out how the flexible access to information inherent in IBM Cognos 8 BI gives users the answers they need regardless of location or environment. Discover how IBM Cognos 8 BI delivers a guided experience and information in context so anyone can find, share, and act on information when they need it most.
Last updated: 15 Jan 2008
Author: Kelsey Howarth
