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Business Intelligence Success Stories

Document Government Customer Story Bundle
Find out how government agencies are saving millions with IBM Cognos software.

Document Manufacturing Customer Story Bundle
Find out how leading manufacturers are reducing costs and making better decisions with IBM Cognos software.

Document Insurance Customer Story Bundle
Find out how leading insurers are getting visibility into every facet of their business—underwriting, claims, marketing, distribution, risk management, and more-with IBM Cognos software.

Document Retail Customer Story Bundle
Learn out how leading retailers such as Quiznos and Harrah’s are reducing costs and making better decisions with IBM Cognos software.

Performance Management Demos

demo-icon Clinical Trials Performance Management
Learn proven best practices in enrollment indicators that can affect the progress of costly clinical trials.

demo-icon Financial Consolidation & Reporting for Visionary Finance Executives: IBM Cognos Controller
Learn best practices for: Managing the processes of consolidating financial information. Delivering external management and corporate reporting. Providing transparency to sustain compliance and performance.

demo-icon NEW! Group Consolidation and Corporate Reporting (GCCR)
This Cognos 8 Controller-based Blueprint streamlines the close, consolidate, and reporting process. And it provides a finance-managed solution to help companies meet the strict requirements of Europe’s International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

demo-icon Performance & Compliance: Neither is Optional
Learn how to deal with the paradox of managing compliance while improving performance. This microsite offers valuable insights on how you can streamline consolidation, compliance and reporting processes - while enhancing performance management.

Planning & Consolidation Demos

demo-icon NEW! Group Consolidation and Corporate Reporting (GCCR)
This Cognos 8 Controller-based Blueprint streamlines the close, consolidate, and reporting process. And it provides a finance-managed solution to help companies meet the strict requirements of Europe’s International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

demo-icon NEW! IBM Cognos TM1 MidMarket Edition
IBM Cognos TM1 MidMarket Edition is a complete financial performance management (FPM) solution. Discover how to structure and automate your key financial processes and learn to:

  • Streamline information gathering, aggregation, and analysis.
  • Maintain data and generate reports quickly and easily with components like wizards, workflow, pre-built databases, sample cubes, and plans.
  • Enable ‘what-if’ scenario modeling for improved business optimization.

Industry Solutions Demos: Retail

demo-icon Store Operations
The IBM Cognos Store Operations Planning Performance Blueprint uses IBM Cognos 8 Planning and IBM Cognos 8 BI to provide a Web-based process for managing store operations.

demo-icon Store Development
The IBM Cognos Store Development Performance Blueprint uses IBM Cognos 8 Planning and IBM Cognos 8 BI to help retailers model and quantify the financial impact of store development initiatives.

demo-icon Strategic Promotions Planning
The IBM Cognos Strategic Promotion Performance Blueprint uses IBM Cognos 8 Planning and IBM Cognos 8 BI to help retailers spend company and trade dollars more effectively and drive higher ROI.

demo-icon Financial Merchandise Planning
The IBM Cognos Financial Merchandise Planning Performance Blueprint uses IBM Cognos 8 Planning and IBM Cognos 8 BI to help finance and operations plan collaboratively to achieve a single set of financial goals and business objectives.

demo-icon Financial Workbench and Scorecard Online
The IBM Cognos Financial Workbench and Scorecard Performance Blueprint uses IBM Cognos 8 Planning and IBM Cognos 8 BI to provide integrated planning and analysis of results against plans. So retailers meet growth and profitability objectives, while improving customer service and loyalty.

Business Intelligence White Papers: Analyst Reports

Document The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2008
The Forrester Wave notes that 'IBM Cognos and SAP Business Objects maintain their leadership positions' in the BI Platforms market, and that "IBM Cognos provides one of the most modern and scalable BI environments".

Document 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.

Document IDC Case Study - Pervasive BI at The School District of Palm Beach
Discover the internal and external factors that drove PBCSD to re-evaluate its decision-making processes and BI technology and the benefits of moving to IBM Cognos 8 Business intelligence.

Document IDC Case Study - The Path Toward Pervasive Business Intelligence
Discover why the Steak n Shake restaurant chain chose to re-evaluate its decision-making processes and support systems and its decision to move toward pervasive business intelligence.

Document 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.