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- Oracle Case Study: Cognos
- Cognos is the world leader in Business Intelligence (BI) and performance planning software for the enterprise. Cognos's legacy recruiting system was unable to cope with the company's increasing global hiring needs. Applications tripled from 2000 to 2001, and the old system's ability to filter applicants wasn't meeting this challenge. Further,...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Oracle Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Hardware Upgrade, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
- Case studies
- Enterprise Planning: Agility to Transform Your Business
- Cognos Planning enables best practices in rolling forecasts, driver-based planning, high participation, high frequency and owned by finance.
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Cognos Planning, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Webcasts
- Cognos Planning Delivers a More Participative Approach to Planning With Increased Potential for Future Forecasting and "What if" Analysis at Speciality Retail Group
- Speciality Retail Group (SRG) is a men's apparel retailer operating some 80 stores across the UK and Ireland with head offices and distribution centre based at Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. The SRG finance team decided to take a completely fresh look at budgeting in the knowledge that spreadsheets are not the best...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Budgeting, Analysis, Forecasting, Cognos Planning, Speciality Retail Group, Productivity, Financial Services
- Case studies
- Rapid Cognos Planning Implementation Delivers Quick Results for Benjys
- Benjys is established as London's best value sandwich chain offering over 350 different fresh sandwiches from over 60 stores nationwide. Operating in a highly competitive high-street market, Benjys were already at the stage where they captured all of the data they needed to run the business, but this was done...
- Tags: Application, Cognos Inc., Benjys, Productivity, Team Management, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Management, Sales, Finance
- Case studies
- BI on the Move: Cognos 8 Go! Mobile and BlackBerry
- 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. Allowing business users and executives anywhere, anytime access to the information they need is helping...
- Tags: mobile, tool, on-demand, Web, RIM BlackBerry, mobile marketing, mobile application, e-mail, Cognos Inc., business intelligence, benefit
- Webcasts
- SOX and the Visionary CFO: Turning Cost Into Opportunity
- Visionary CFOs see things differently. To the visionary CFO, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance represents a unique opportunity to pursue best practices in planning, executing, reporting, and analyzing performance. This webcast explains how businesses are creating competitive advantages by turning the costs of compliance into opportunities.
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Visionary, CFO, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- Webcasts
- Cognos Business Intelligence Software Arms Agencies for Today's Challenges
- The problem with most government operations is not a lack of data, but how to use it. Agencies at all levels are drowning in files and database entries. The problems in decision-making are lack of coordination, too much information, difficulty to assimilate it, slow data delivery and too much opinion....
- Tags: Cognos Inc., e.Republic, Agency, Business Intelligence System, Advertising & Promotion, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Databases, Marketing, Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- IBM Helps Cognos ReportNet Tap Grid
- Cognos ReportNet is a global-ready, pure Web, enterprise-scale query and reporting solution. ReportNet's open architecture lets it easily tap an organization's existing IT infrastructure. Cognos put ReportNet's openness to the test in an IBM grid computing environment. At the IBM Innovation Center in San Mateo, California, Cognos performed a series...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., IBM Corp., Cognos ReportNet, Utility Computing, Servers, Application Servers, Operating Systems, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software
- Case studies
- Delivering Managed and Integrated Web Reporting Across the Enterprise to a Large Wireless Communications Provider
- The client was one of the largest wireless communication providers in the U.S.A with more than 27 million wireless voice and data customers. The customer wanted to enhance the analytical system by adding more reports and Web enable the same for large groups of report users. The users can subscribe...
- Tags: Web, Cognos Inc., Wipro Technologies, Wireless Communication, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Case studies
- Embracing Excel and Improving Your Enterprise Planning Process
- In this webcast you will learn how Cognos Planning engages the enterprise to deliver timely, fact-based plans that connect operational planning and financial planning. In delivering a connected plan across the organization, it is important to deliver driver-based plans that embrace the whole company though a common view of business...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Penton Media Inc., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Financial Accounting, Office Suites, Software, Finance
- Webcasts
- Enterprise Reporting - The First Step to Superior Performance Management
- 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. Employees and business partners count on these reports to keep them up to date...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Report, Performance, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-05-18
- Daptiv takes on managing work in the mid office with new collaborative product
- Submitted by TechRepublic member tlow: Daptiv (formerly eProject), has announced the availability of their SaaS collaborative business management solution, an on-demand product facilitates the management of work across projects and teams in the area between CRM and ERP. The product integrates Business Intelligence (BI) from Cognos to...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Software-as-a-service, On-demand, Product, Daptiv, Software As A Service (SaaS), Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Databases, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Daptiv takes on managing work in the mid office with new collaborative product
- Posted by TechRepublic member tlow: Daptiv (formerly eProject), has announced the availability of their SaaS collaborative business management solution, an on-demand product facilitates the management of work across projects and teams in the area between CRM and ERP. The product integrates Business Intelligence (BI) from Cognos...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Software-as-a-service, On-demand, Product, Daptiv, Software As A Service (SaaS), Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Databases, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- IBM buys BI vendor Cognos
- IBM has announced that it will acquire Business Intelligence (BI) vendor Cognos for $5 billion. An excerpt from BusinessWeek: For IBM, the Cognos acquisition is a continuation of a "growth through mergers-and-acquisitions" effort it launched in February, 2006. Since then, IBM has bought 23 software companies...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., IBM Corp., Business Intelligence Segment, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- The Performance Manager: Turning Information into Higher Business Performance
- Research by McKinsey Quarterly confirms what most have known intuitively for some time. All jobs have become more and more information-intensive--less linear and more interactive, less rule-based and more collaborative--while at the same time employees are expected to do more in less time. While technology has helped in part, it...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Performance, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-01-01
- IBM buys BI vendor Cognos
- Entering BI?Is consolidation in the BI space great news for enterprises?
- Tags: Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, pr.arun@..., business intelligence, Cognos Inc., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- Cognos and Excel
- My company uses Cognos reporting software to generate reports from our data warehouse and exports them into Excel 2003. However, we have several users with Excel 97 and if these users have Excel 97 open when the Cognos report is running, the Cognos report will error out. I think there...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, jpowersj@..., Microsoft Excel, Cognos Inc., Microsoft Excel 97
- Discussion threads 2007-09-12
- NT bat file to Perl script conversion
- I am trying to take a system that uses BAT files on NT and convert them to Perl Scripts. I am going to run the Perl scripts from Windows scheduler, and I need to know if I schedule them to run as root on the box if the schedule will...
- Tags: jcabe@..., job, windows scheduler, windows, perl, programming, nt, Microsoft Windows NT
- Discussion threads 2007-02-13
- The Evolution of the CPM System
- The definition of corporate performance management (CPM) has been consistent since industry analysts Gartner Research introduced CPM in 2001. CPM is an umbrella term that describes all of the processes, methodologies, metrics and systems needed to measure and manage the performance of an organization. Cognos is now complementing its solid,...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Corporate Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2005-06-01
- COGNOS Planning: Plan to Reform
- Cognos 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. Designed for companies with...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Strategy, Business Structures, Management, Finance
- White papers 2005-04-01
