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Beware of Performance Management Pitfalls: Smart companies avoid basic mistakes in implementation

whitepaper Performance management is the strategy and sets of methodologies and processes that an organization uses to direct its employees, partners, suppliers and customers to achieve a common set of goals and objectives.

Tags: knowledge and data management

[15 May 2008]

The Performance Manager: Turning Information into Higher Business Performance

whitepaper Read this excerpt from the business book, The Performance Manager, sponsored by Cognos, to help you turn the growing information-intensity of your job from a challenge to a competitive advantage. Research by McKinsey Quarterly confirms what most...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[14 May 2008]

Enterprise Reporting - The First Step to Superior Performance Management

whitepaper It's not hard to understand the need for high-quality business intelligence (BI) and performance management solutions. Most IT organizations have responsibility for lots of data, lots of applications -- and hundreds, if not thousands, of reports.

Tags: back-office

[14 May 2008]

Compare MicroStrategy vs. Cognos at a Glance

whitepaper Understand the technical differentiation between the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform and the Cognos Suite of Tools. See if you require Industrial-Strength Business Intelligence in 15 slides.

Tags: xml, intelligence, business intelligence, industrial

[03 Apr 2008]

Customer Connect: Significant Competitive Advantage, Dramatic Operating Efficiencies

whitepaper As a result, National Oilwell launched Customer Connect, a Web-based business intelligence solution developed in conjunction with Cognos Business Intelligence solutions. National Oilwell places a high value on establishing and maintaining solid...

Tags: application servers

[20 Feb 2008]

Slowdown on the cards for business intelligence

News There were a number of significant acquisitions during 2007, including Oracle buying Hyperion, SAP putting in a bid for Business Objects and IBM staking a claim for Cognos. The market for business intelligence (BI) tech is predicted to slow down...

Tags: business objects, bi, cognos, hyperion

[14 Jan 2008]

IBM brains up with $5bn Cognos buy

News IBM has announced it intends to buy business intelligence software company Cognos in a $5bn all-cash transaction. Cognos, a public company based in Ottawa, Canada, provides tools for building business reports and business performance management...

Tags: ibm, acquisitions, cognos, cnet news

[12 Nov 2007]

BI on the Move: Cognos 8 Go! Mobile and BlackBerry

whitepaper View this on-demand Web seminar on Cognos Go! Learn how to put Business Intelligence (BI) tools into the hands of your users anywhere they go. The evolution of mobile applications is moving BI into the front lines of an organization.

Tags: intelligence, business intelligence, blackberry, business users

[06 Sep 2007]

BI on the Move: Cognos 8 Go! Mobile and BlackBerry

whitepaper View this on-demand Web seminar on Cognos Go! Learn how to put Business Intelligence (BI) tools into the hands of your users anywhere they go. The evolution of mobile applications is moving BI into the front lines of an organization.

Tags: knowledge and data management, business intelligence, intelligence, blackberry

[06 Sep 2007]

BI for all

Comment In contrast the enterprise market has long been dominated by established BI players such as Business Objects, Cognos and SAS. They are also offering lower cost of deployment options such as Cognos Now!

Tags: sas, business objects, cognos, microsoft

[18 Jul 2007]

SimbaProvider SDK Technical White Paper

whitepaper With SimbaProvider SDK, one can integrate their multi-dimensional server with the newest generation of analytic applications and development environments, such as Business Objects, Cognos, Microsoft Excel and Data Analyzer, ProClarity, ArcPlan...

Tags: xml, multi, dimensional, olap

[02 Jul 2007]

SSA Open Architecture: A Practical Path to Agility in a Demand-Driven World

whitepaper It does this by leveraging commodity and standard technologies and taking full advantage of the strategic partnerships with leading IT vendors, including IBM and Cognos. SSA Open Architecture is SSA Global's enablement of a service-oriented...

Tags: erp, oriented, open architecture, objectives

[20 Mar 2007]

SSA Open Architecture: A Practical Path to Agility in a Demand-Driven World

whitepaper It does this by leveraging commodity and standard technologies and taking full advantage of the strategic partnerships with leading IT vendors, including IBM and Cognos. SSA Open Architecture is SSA Global's enablement of a service-oriented...

Tags: erp, oriented, open architecture, objectives

[20 Mar 2007]

Manor Bakeries Cooks Up Cost Savings and Efficiency Gains With VMware Virtual Infrastructure

whitepaper The company wanted to implement a large Cognos Business Intelligence suite alongside its Citrix MetaFrame and Microsoft Windows servers. Manor Bakeries is the branded cake business within RHM, one of the largest food companies in the UK and Ireland.

Tags: vmware esx server, cognos business intelligence, microsoft windows, intelligence

[28 Feb 2007]

L'Oréal gets business planning makeover

L'Oréal gets business planning makeover

Case Study The UK arm of the cosmetics company is using Cognos Planning software to forecast which products customers - retail outlets such as Asda, Boots and Tesco - would be most interested in buying. For instance, with the Cognos software, the national...

Tags: forecasts, forecast, make up, cognos

[19 Feb 2007]

RIAS Turns Information Into Knowledge by Leveraging Data Assets

whitepaper RIAS replaced SQL server and Cognos-based management information system with Oracle Database 10g and BI tools. RIAS, a specialist insurer for clients in the over-50s age bracket, has a rapidly growing customer base of 840,000.

Tags: data mining - analysis, business intelligence, oracle warehouse builder, cross

[07 Dec 2006]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: BI to go mainstream?

Comment Leading BI vendors such as Business Objects, Cognos and Hyperion are investing significant resources into re-architecting their original disparate tools and applications to work together as part of an integrated platform: for example, Business...

Tags: business intelligence

[01 Dec 2006]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Budgets made simple

Comment This includes vendors such as Business Objects, Cognos, Extensity (now part of Infor), Hyperion, Outlooksoft and SAS - many of whom, once primarily known for their business intelligence (BI) heritage, have extended their reach as providers of...

Tags: budgeting, business intelligence

[06 Oct 2006]

Are you covered on software licensing?

News Seperately - but still on the subject of compliance - a report from software company Cognos warned that two-thirds of banks in the UK are taking a 'bare minimum' approach to Basel II compliance. With the average bank spending around €88m on meeting...

Tags: licensing, sox, fast, compliance

[19 Sep 2006]

Microsoft bolts business intelligence to Office

News Existing business-intelligence vendors, including BusinessObjects, Cognos, Hyperion and SAS are also developing tools for scorecards and, in some cases, financial planning. Microsoft will offer analysis and planning applications as an add-on to its...

Tags: business intelligence, office, microsoft

[06 Jun 2006]

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