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Public Sector
 Reporting and scorecarding in primary and secondary education
Find out how school districts and boards are using performance management to make sense of their data and improve student results. 11 Jan 2011
IBM Cognos 8 planning for higher education
IBM Cognos® 8 Planning offers a premier solution for business modeling, budgeting, planning, and forecasting to help institutions deal with ineffective processes and technologies.
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.
Government Performance Management
Read how Cognos performance management helps government agencies leverage information and resources to engage the workforce, boost productivity, improve efficiencies, and deliver better services to the public.
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Managing Higher Education: From Recruitment to Endowment
Financial institutions generate and use mountains of data. Cognos BI turns that data into an asset.
The City Re-examined
Measuring municipal performance for smarter services.
Strategic Use of Analytics in Government
Another piece in the Managing for Performance and Results series.
A single vantage point: IBM Cognos education performance management
IBM Cognos® education performance management tools can assist with the data collection and analysis necessary to help school districts advance and prove the new standards are being met.
Managing the business of education
Uniting the mission of education with the mission of the marketplace.
Solutions for U.S. Department of Defense: Informed Response
Read how Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence solutions for Defense departments, is making a real difference in defense organizations.
Solutions for U.S. Federal Government: A Mandate to Perform
Learn how Cognos solutions will help you meet the initiatives of The President’s Management Agenda.
Solutions for State and Local Organizations: Ready. Informed. Accountable
From K-12 Education, to public safety, to health and human services. Cognos business intelligence solutions let you increase organizational performance and enhance mission effectiveness wherever it's needed.
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Life Sciences
Business analytics for life sciences
Learn how organizations are leveraging analytics, business intelligence and performance management to improve operations. 11 Jan 2011
Orchestrating the life sciences supply chain
Learn about how life sciences companies are building efficient and customer-focused supply chains that lower costs, improve product safety and mitigate risks. 11 Jan 2011
Business analytics for the agile health plan
Find out how business analytics are helping health plans act, respond and transform to ensure profitable performance. 11 Jan 2011
Optimizing the healthcare supply chain
Find out how healthcare organizations are creating a predictable, visible and seamless supply chain with IBM Cognos software. 11 Jan 2011
Transform enterprise data into consolidated, actionable insight
How healthcare organizations can benefit from IBM InfoSphere Warehouse software.
Healthcare Performance Management
Improve care, reduce costs and make better decisions with performance management.
Picturing Performance: IBM Cognos dashboards and scorecards for healthcare
This white paper describes how healthcare organizations around the globe are increasingly using dashboards to provide at-a-glance views of current business performance and decision-making.
When the going gets tough, the tough need insight
Performance management for life sciences companies in a weak economy.
A 4-Step Guide to Optimizing Clinical Development
Companies are forced to examine drug development processes with an eye toward efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and cost containment.
Choosing a Healthcare Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting System
This white paper outlines a systematic approach to planning software evaluation and selection that aligns best practices and leading-edge technology with planning activities in your organization.
Performance management in healthcare
Patient-centered care, accountability and rising costs drive better performance.
Top Ten Reports in Clinical Performance Management
This white paper outlines the ten critical CPM reports every pharmaceutical organization needs to gain a complete view of all clinical trial activities.
10 Ways to Drive Performance
Learn how performance management software from Cognos can help you analyze your marketing performance, align resources with opportunities and use scorecards to monitor performance.
Driving Clinical Trial Performance
Learn about the importance of measurement in the clinical trials process, key areas to measure and how Cognos performance management software can improve clinical trial performance.
A New Day for Clinical Trial Management
See how Cognos can help you monitor key stages in the clinical trials process from your desktop.
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Financial Services
Business analytics in banking
Find out how banks are using Cognos and SPSS software is helping banks manage risk, understand customers and increase operational efficiency. 11 Jan 2011
Where Finance Belongs on the IT Agenda
With the economy on the mend, Finance needs the business insight that can only come from reliable data and metrics. Learn why IT and Finance need to work together in the post-recession economy. 11 Jan 2011
Bridging Operational & Financial Forecasting
Learn how IBM Cognos solutions help Finance and its line-of-business counterparts synchronize their financial and operational planning to optimize performance, no matter how volatile the business environment. 11 Jan 2011
Finance Meets the Challenge of the "New Normal"-Insights from the 2010 IBM Global CFO Study
Read about the 2010 IBM CFO Study and the practices and technologies that can help Finance organizations anticipate and shape business outcomes in the "new normal." 11 Jan 2011
Better Business Outcomes with Business Analytics
Learn how insights from IBM Business Analytics solutions help organizations increase awareness, focus and alignment for better business outcomes. 11 Jan 2011
Priorities for Improving the Financial Close: Don't Forget about Reporting
Analyst Kathleen Wilhide explains how the right financial consolidation solution can help you replace silos of inconsistent data and deliver the actionable insight you need for sound corporate governance. 11 Jan 2011
Value Impact Profile for Financial Analytics (Excel file)
Use the VIP as a guide to articulate the vision and goals for your organization's financial analytics/profitability processes. 12 Jan 2011
Better customer care and insight
New intelligence for banking with IBM Cognos software.
Business Intelligence and Banking: A Catalyst for Change in a Competitive Market
A Q&A with Datamonitor Analyst Jaroslaw Knapik and IBM Cognos Associate Vice President Laurence Trigwell.
Financial Services - Reporting on Risk
See how easy and effective risk management can be with Cognos with a step-by-step demonstration of various reports including a counterparty summary report, a ratings change report, and a stress test scenario analysis.
Transform enterprise data into consolidated, actionable insight
How financial services companies can benefit from IBM InfoSphere Warehouse solutions.
Seven risk dashboards every bank needs
This white paper explains that the skill with which your bank balances alternative risk/reward strategies will determine your ability to deliver on shareholder returns.
Banking Performance Management
This white paper shows three ways banks are winning with performance management.
Better Performance for the Insurance Industry
Six of the top 10 insurance companies in the world use Cognos. That climbs to 7 of the top 10 in the United States. Find out why.
Planning in the financial services industry
Technology and best practices for profitability management.
Smarter Spending
Tracking recovery funds and reporting outcomes.
Retail Banking: Loan Portfolio Management Industry Brief
Retail Banking: Planning Branch Profitability
Drive branch profitability using the Cognos Enterprise Planning Series.
7 Ways to Improve Sales & Marketing Performance in Banking
Set goals with scorecarding, analyze marketing efforts, and cross-sell the right products with BI.
7 Ways to Improve Sales and Marketing Performance in Insurance
Financial Services and Telecommunication Industry Solutions From Cognos and IBM
Related Article: Momento and IBM Join Forces to Help Financial Institutions Fight Fraud
10/20/2008 | Wall Street & Technology
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Executive
Build or Buy: Selecting an Analytic Application
Discover the business value of analytic applications and explore the tradeoffs in the decision to either build a custom application or buy a packaged application. 11 Jan 2011
Getting Executives on the BI Bandwagon
Reporting for Oracle E-Business Suite
An IBM Cognos BI and Noetix Solution
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Supply Chain
Business Analytics and the Smarter Consumer
Understand what consumers want, and work the dynamics of supply and demand to win customer and brand loyalty. 11 Jan 2011
Picturing Performance: Dashboards and scorecards for consumer products
Find out how consumer product groups are using dashboards to increase profitability, improve performance and provide at-a-glance views of key metrics. 11 Jan 2011
Orchestrating the Chain
Learn how performance management is helping electronics companies optimize the supply chain, anticipate problems and improve decision-making. 11 Jan 2011
Transform enterprise data into consolidated, actionable customer insight
How retailers can benefit from IBM InfoSphere Warehouse software.
Consumer Products Performance Management
This paper demonstrates how consumer products performance management provides tools to make sense of data from multiple sources.
Rapid scorecarding for Consumer Products
Five simple steps to building an effective scorecard.
Seven reports every electronics supply chain executive needs
Supply Chain Performance Management with IBM.
Orchestrating the chain
Supply chain performance management.
Measure what matters: Five reports every retailer needs
By building intelligence into the system, retailers, manufacturers and suppliers can eliminate inefficiency and waste at every step of the chain.
Real-time visibility: Optimize your inventory with operational intelligence
Scorecarding, reporting and dashboards are an integral part of performance management. They help you see what’s going on in terms of operations and merchandising.
Overcoming barriers to supply chain performance
This white paper provides an overview of the IBM Cognos® Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM) solution, a software application that offers comprehensive, integrated supply chain management that can be accessed anytime, anywhere through a simple web browser.
Seven reports every supply chain executive needs
Supply Chain Performance Management with IBM.
Winning in Retail
In this day and age, speed and knowledge are key to succeeding in the retail marketplace. This requires agility, faster response based on better information, operational efficiency, and supply chain control.
IBM Cognos Supply Chain Analytics
Monitoring your supply chain performance means combining insights from across your accounts payable, inventory, production, and procurement data to gain a clearer picture of process effectiveness.
Rapid Scorecarding for Retail
Five simple steps to building an effective scorecard.
Performance Management in Retail
Learn about the benefits of using Cognos performance management to gain deep business insight, improve decision-making, and succeed in the highly competitive retail marketplace.
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Manufacturing
Seven S&OP Reports Every Manufacturing Executive Needs
Sales & operations planning excellence with IBM Cognos software.
Enterprise planning in the manufacturing industry
Technology and best practices for better performance.
Manufacturing quality assurance with IBM Cognos Now!
Mitigate quality risk with operational performance management.
Rapid scorecarding for manufacturing
Five simple steps to building an effective scorecard.
Operational excellence in manufacturing
How to win at the margins with business intelligence.
7 Ways to Improve Sales and Marketing Performance in High Tech Manufacturing
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Insurance
Business analytics for insurance
Find out how Cognos and SPSS software are helping insurers gain deep executive insight, manage risk, improve operational efficiency and understand customers better. 11 Jan 2011
Insurance customer retention and growth
Learn how organizations are using Cognos and SPSS to retain existing customers and cross-sell and up-sell insurance policies. 11 Jan 2011
Stay agile and stand out in changing insurance markets
This white paper addresses the growing need for players to put in place flexible ‘enterprise and beyond’ business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) platforms.
Top ten reports every insurance executive needs
Executive insight with IBM Cognos software.
Rapid scorecarding for insurance
This white paper outlines five simple steps to building an effective scorecard.
Insurance performance management
This white paper outlines four ways to win with IBM Cognos software.
Why insurers are getting smart about business intelligence
This white paper shows how gaining greater knowledge through the effective use of information is providing true differentiation for today’s leading insurance companies.
Better planning for insurance companies
Technology and best practices for profitability management.
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Human Resources
The IBM Cognos-PeopleSoft Connection
Why leading companies choose IBM Cognos solutions for PeopleSoft.
Unlocking the DNA of the adaptable workforce
The global human capital study 2008.
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Other
Predictive Churn Analytics
Learn how telecommunications carriers and cable operators are aligning their processes around a common view of their most influential customers. 11 Jan 2011
Business Analytics for your industry
Find out how business analytics are increasing profits, enhancing decision-making and providing competitive advantage in your industry. 11 Jan 2011
Business Analytics for telcos
Discover how carriers and cable operators can leverage business analytics to improve asset utilization, drive performance, optimize call centers, analyze cross-platform advertising and prevent subscriber churn.11 Jan 2011
Empowering business decision makers by extending your SAP applications
This white paper explains how business users can manage their performance on an SAP infrastructure.
Orchestrating the chain
Supply chain performance management for chemicals and petroleum companies.
Seven reports every Chemicals and Petroleum supply chain executive needs
This white paper describes the need for effective, efficient performance management software to help drive success in today’s complicated chemicals and petroleum industry supply chains.
Software and Services Financing
Software and services form the largest and fastest-growing part of theinformation technology market.
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