IBM Cognos
With world-class Financial Performance Management and Business Intelligence software, Cognos helps companies to plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance. We give you the ability to understand and monitor current performance while planning future business strategies.
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EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT: Chief balancing officers
Executive Management bears the ultimate responsibility for the success or failure of the business. Today, these traditional challengesoccur in the context of unprecedented levels of investor and regulatory scrutiny. Executive Management must find the proper equilibrium among these pressures,…
IT - A Pathfinder to better Performance
IT can be to the company what high-tech firms have been to the economy - a catalyst for changeand an engine driving rapid growth. Of course, the opposite is also true: IT failures can seriously harm the company, but why?
Effective use of Business Intelligence Tools
Studies show that the markets consistently punish companies that do not accurately forecast their financial performance, even if that performance is objectively good. By contrast, companies that can consistently deliver forecasted results are rewarded with a premium in their market capitalization…
Making Performance Everyones Business
Business performance today is under intense scrutiny from all sides. Under this pressure, weaknesses in entrenched approaches to managing business performance are making themselves felt: established activities for managing performance are inflexible and disconnected; corporate strategy is not well…
Cognos and IBM – A Joint Sales Engagement
During 2004 and 2005, DWP, supported by IBM,set about implementing a department-wide resource management solution incorporating planning, budgeting, forecasting, performance management and reporting capabilities using the Oracle E-Business suite of tools. At this stage Oracle Financial Analyzer was…
Better Budgeting - Growing your Bottom line
For most companies, regardless of size or industry, the corporate budgeting, forecasting, and reporting process presents a formidable challenge. Budgeting is most often described as burdensome and time consuming by finance professionals and line managers alike. But how are companies improving…
Selecting the Right Enterprise Planning Solution
This software selection guide provides a list of key factors to consider as you evaluate competing enterprise planning solutions.
Adding Real Value to The Business through ERP
This Case Study provides an overview of how the Discovery Network finance team has introduced systems which have hugely reduced the time and resources spent on all stages of the planning process.
Creating a value based budgeting system for BAE systems
This Case Study provides an overview of how a value based budgeting system was created for BAE Systems.
Reducing Financial Planning Cycles by 77%
A Case Study that explores how Ricoh reduced Financial Planning cycles by 77% through an effective Business Intelligence Solution.