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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.
[15 May 2008]
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...
[14 May 2008]
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.
[14 May 2008]
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.
[03 Apr 2008]
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...
[20 Feb 2008]
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...
[14 Jan 2008]
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...
[12 Nov 2007]
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.
[06 Sep 2007]
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.
[06 Sep 2007]
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!
[18 Jul 2007]
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...
[02 Jul 2007]
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...
[20 Mar 2007]
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...
[20 Mar 2007]
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.
[28 Feb 2007]
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...
[19 Feb 2007]
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.
[07 Dec 2006]
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...
[01 Dec 2006]
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...
[06 Oct 2006]
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...
[19 Sep 2006]
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...
[06 Jun 2006]
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