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We can now demonstrate to customers the effect of various different scenarios much more quickly than before, in minutes rather than hours. This gives them the information they need to make vital decisions in the fast moving retail sector. Keith Mattocks, Project Leader at L'Oréal 
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Business Intelligence
Making your Best Business Decisions
"Managing an organisation means asking and answering questions. Who are my best customers? Is the sales pipeline on target? Who sold the most today? What is our back-order percentage? Are we missing supplier discounts? Can we run the business on profitability rather than revenue?"
The Full Promise of Business Intelligence
"Cognos 8 BI provides a single, modern web services architecture that is built from the ground up to minimise development, deployment, and maintenance for lower cost of ownership. This is key to why Cognos 8 BI simplifies your IT environment while serving all of your user needs."
Seven Steps to Flawless BI
In 2005, Gartner published a paper entitled "Avoid the Five 'Fatal Flaws' of Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management." The paper describes Gartner's observations as to why business intelligence (BI) initiatives fail or get off to a bad start. The findings were based on Gartner's expertise in the BI industry and research into real-world deployments.
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Reporting
View exactly the information you want - everything from ad-hoc queries to detailed operation reports. Get one single version of the truth from multiple data sources, giving you the information you need, when you need it and in the format you want it - email, Microsoft Excel, HTML, PDF, CSV, or XML.
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Analysis
Explore and analyse large volumes of data using online analytical processing (OLAP) or relational sources to analyse business performance across multiple dimensions ( such as time, product, customer, and supplier).
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Scorecarding
Scorecards provide an at-a-glance view of performance against targets and ensure accountability by linking metrics to owners. Use this information to drive your enterprise planning for a full Corporate Performance Management system.
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Dashboards
Dashboards deliver information from different sources in a single visual report to provide an at-a-glance snapshot of business performance. Drill-down from the dashboard elements to the underlying data provides more detailed reporting and analysis.
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Business Event Management
Automate the detection, management and alerting of important business events to ensure swift response and resolution of operational issues.
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Data Integration
Extract all the relevant data from multiple sources to deliver a data warehouse ready for analysis and reporting.
Data Integration Fact Sheet (216Kb) »
Enterprise Planning
Raise The Level Of Performance
"Performance is not just numbers - it's numbers in context. Results related to your goals. Managing performance means understanding results, setting metrics, fixing plans and making decisions to ensure it happens. New challenges from competition, compliance and sudden market changes underscore the value of managing performance more than ever before."
Performance Begins With Enterprise Planning
"Cognos 8 Planning offers everything you need to establish a foundation for best-in-class performance. Owned by finance, it helps define goals and creates a clear-cut strategy for excellence. It gives you the tools to turn strategy into discrete plans, budgets and forecasts for employees and external partners."
Spreadsheet-based Planning: Rough Road Ahead
Companies spend countless hours each year developing the business plans, forecasts, reports and analyses they depend on to drive strategic decision-making and performance management. It is critical that this information is accurate and timely and can be easily updated as business conditions change.
Selecting the Right Enterprise Planning Solution
"As global competitive threats increase, new markets emerge and new regulatory pressures for financial clarity and accuracy arise. Businesses face unprecedented requirements for speed and accuracy in plans, budgets and forecasts. With stakeholders counting on you for credible guidance on future operating performance, it's difficult to name a more important process for managing that performance than enterprise planning."
L'Oréal to manage Customer Forecasting
The world's leading cosmetics manufacturer, working with Cognos partner COA Solutions (formally BI Inform), has chosen Cognos Enterprise Planning to drive the development of joint business plans for major retailers that sell its range of L'Oréal Paris, Garnier and Maybelline products.
People Analytics
Gateshead Council - People Analytics improves Staff Attendance and Saves £1.5m in Productivity
"This is the biggest ever reduction in staff absence we have seen in a similar timeframe and People Analytics is probably the biggest single factor in achieving this. People Analytics improves staff attendance and saves £1.5m in productivity."
Mark Wilson, Senior Personnel Advisor, Gateshead Council
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Skandia cuts HR Reporting Time from a Week to Two Hours
"Our key priority was to provide accurate, meaningful management information automatically and be able to send it directly to managers' desktops."
Ann-Louise Hancock, Head of People Division, Skandia
People Analytics saves London Borough of Merton £500,000
"To achieve this level of saving it is vital that the target is clear, and, that accurate analysis and reporting is available using a system like the People Analytics."
Steve Key, Payroll & Pensions Manager, London Borough of Merton
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Merseyside Police - People Analytics puts Business Intelligence on the beat
"For a solution with such high-tech specifications, it's surprisingly easy to use and very intuitive. It literally takes all of 30 minutes to get a new user up to speed on the new system."
Gillian Blake, Merseyside Police
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