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- 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
- 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Cognos Fulfils Hefty Reporting and Analysis Needs
- Pactiv Corporation is a leading producer of specialty packaging products. Pactiv uses SAP to collect information in its manufacturing, distribution, customer service and finance departments. Pactiv used the Cognos desktop solution for four years. When the IT department made the strategic decision to move to the Web, the company wanted...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Analysis, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Accounting, Desktops, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Hardware
- Case studies 2003-07-01
- Informatica , Cognos - Annanagar
- Hi,I live in AnnaNagar, Chennai. Can you anyone please let me if there are any computer centers offering Informatica and Cognos training.Thank you.Balaji
- Tags: Annanagar
- Q&A 2005-08-01
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Cognos Decision Stream for beginners
- blog root
- Tags: Blogging, mpkrishna25@..., Cognos Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-12-16
- Cognos Decision Stream for beginners
- blog rootHi all,I have recently started exploring Cognos Decision stream 7.1 and I need some help. I want to enable source code control for a catalog in a decision stream. As per the instructions in the user guide I have closed the catalog that was open. 2....
- Tags: mpkrishna25@..., source-code control, Cognos Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-12-16
- 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
- Cognos PowerPlay cube build monitoring
- Hi,I was wondering if anyone with Cognos PowerCube experience has an enterprise-class, rock-solid way to monitor cube builds on Transformation servers including notification mechanisms.Any advice is greatly appreciated!ThanksBrian7 Habits of Highly Effective Cube BuildingHi Brian--From a very broad perspective, here are the 7 questions I start with (and answer by...
- Tags: Brian, Cognos Inc., monitoring, bri_mayer2004@..., software
- Discussion threads 2005-03-31
- 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
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