IBM Cognos
IBM Cognos business intelligence (BI) and performance management solutions deliver world-leading enterprise planning, consolidation and BI software, support and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance. IBM Cognos solutions bring together technology, analytical applications, best practices, and a broad network of partners to give customers an open, adaptive and complete performance solution. Over 23,000 customers in more than 135 countries around the world choose IBM Cognos solutions.
Business Intelligence
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence enables you to interact and explore with any data, in any combination and spanning the entire spectrum of time—all in a unified workspace.
With dashboards, reporting, scorecards, what-if analysis, statistical analysis, predictive analytics and more, Cognos Business Intelligence helps support the way people work, think and collaborate as they look for the answers to three questions:
- How are we doing?
- Why?
- What should we be doing?
- To help you see how your company is doing, Cognos Business Intelligence provides Dashboarding, Scorecarding, Reporting and Real-time Monitoring
- To help you understand why, Cognos Business Intelligence has Ad hoc Query, Analysis and Statistics
- To help you decide what your company should be doing, Cognos Business Intelligence has What-if Analysis and somewhere to view the results of Predictive Analytics
- To make sure the right people are involved in the decision making process at the right time, Cognos Business Intelligence offers Collaborative BI
- To make it possible for users to view historical information, analyze information, model scenarios and predict future results, all from one place, Cognos Business Intelligence features a unified workspace
- To help make BI content available to everyone when, where and how they need it, Cognos Business Intelligence offers Cognos Mobile and Cognos Active Reports
- Cognos Business Intelligence is underpinned by the Cognos Platform, which is designed to be easy to deploy and manage to reduce the burden on IT while delivering higher business satisfaction
Financial Performance Management
Finance organisations need the very best tools and disciplines to drive profit and growth enterprise-wide. Financial performance management solutions enable you to:
- Link financial and operational plans through driver-based models.
- Guarantee the quality and accuracy of financial numbers for timely, sustainable compliance.
- Track performance against strategic objectives.
- Perform “what-if” scenario modeling and create flexible rolling forecasts.
- Replace rigid budgets with continuous planning—daily, weekly, or monthly.
IBM Cognos solutions can free the office of finance from the burden of spreadsheet-based processes with powerful capabilities to meet the complex needs of any finance organization.
- Cognos Express
- Cognos 10
- Cognos TM1
- Cognos Planning
- Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
- Cognos Controller
- Cognos Education
