IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence - Tab Analyst Reports and Customer Successes

Business Intelligence and Performance Management Analytics Report
InformationWeek survey of leading BI decision-makers that examines the roll of Business Intelligence and Performance Management in today's enterprise IT strategies.

InformationWeek
October, 2007
Erik Pieczkowski

Business Intelligence: A Strategic Approach to Extending and Standardising the Use of BI (press release) (pdf)

The Butler Group
March 2006

IBM Cognos 8 BI: Another Example of Why Architecture Matters

AMR Research Alert
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Dennis Gaughan, John Hagerty, Ryan Garvey

Unification verses Integration

Bloor Research
October 4, 2005
Philip Howard

Discover how Dutch insurance group, Achmea, has evolved with Cognos solutions to results-oriented management based on up-to-date, reliable information.

Find out how energy giant Mainova uses Web-based, SAP-compatible IBM Cognos 8 BI throughout the corporation to automate their reporting system for actionable knowledge of sales, markets, and revenue potential.

Find out how Cognos has helped baking giant Bolletje to discover real power in their data, allowing them to speed up budgeting and improve decision-making throughout the company.

Find out how the Munich Re Group reinsurers removed reporting and analysis roadblocks with IBM Cognos 8 BI, leading to substantial time savings, which are now being put to better business use.

Read about how real estate company Realia created a structured information development environment as a pre-requisite to going public on the stock market.

Discover how Meetic, Europe's premier online dating service, uses Cognos solutions internally and with their partners to provide localized reporting portals and improve customer satisfaction.

Read about how the Capital Services Group loan and real-estate management company achieved a significant decrease in IT time and reduced their reporting process from days to hours.

Discover how the Harry-Brot bakery products company introduced a standardized, enterprise-wide analysis and reporting system, and improved their view of sales, production, and other business data.

Find out how UTi Worldwide logistics company created professional, actionable reports from disparate data sources, and satisfied their user community.

Read about how Vicor manufacturing corporation finds Cognos 8 BI the key to staying on track and keeping ahead of their competition.

Find out how National Commercial Bank uses Cognos to increase profits, improve accuracy, reduce credit risk, segment customers more effectively, and cut reporting time from three weeks to two hours.

Find out how US Lumber achieved easy access to data, flexibility in reporting, and analysis on-the-fly for more accurate decision-making and increased customer satisfaction.

Learn about how the employees of Lufthansa Cargo, one of the largest international air freight carriers, found improved performance in faster, easier data evaluation, analysis, and reporting.

Discover how the city of London's Congestion Charging Scheme, introduced by Transport for London and designed to reduce traffic in the city center, has controlled its management information for system improvement and trend analysis, and become quicker to react to business changes.

Read about how Caffe Nero, the largest independent coffee retailer in the UK, turned over their business processes from sales slips to sophisticated analysis and reporting, and improved product performance, customer service, supply monitoring, and staff resourcing and development.

Find out how health insurance agency BKK Bundesverband reacted to changing legal guidelines and new reporting requirements from users, and made huge savings in cost and time in the process.

Discover how global medical engineering company, Sonova Group, used a comprehensive Cognos solution to improve financial control, planning, and performance.

Discover how the Austrian Airlines Group uses Cognos 8 BI to help optimize the company's performance throughout the entire value chain.

Find out how Austria's Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) used Cognos Planning to make major improvements in forecasting, budgeting and planning, throughout the entire department.

Discover how textile manufacturer, Kunert, used Cognos 8 BI to help control a vendor-managed inventory in the competitive hosiery retail industry.

Discover how DongBu Insurance used Cognos 8 BI to cut reporting times from one month to one hour.

Find out how the Korea Telecom Freetel uses the first Cognos 8 BI deployment in Korea to make analysis easy and improve user satisfaction.

Discover how Nuance-Watson improved sales performance and business strategy in its world-class, duty free outlets with Cognos 8 BI.

Find out how insurance services company, Cavell, used Cognos 8 BI to get tighter control on costs that affected their bottom line.

Find out how Creativity improved their ability to supply North America's largest retailers by consolidating data, reports, and metrics into a portal for the supply chain team.

Discover how Siza Dorp Group healthcare provider streamlined management data to obtain effective financial and personnel information, as well as error-free budgeting.

Read about how automotive products distributor MTU Detroit Diesel leveraged the people and best practices from Cognos Consulting to reduce report times from six days to a few hours.

Find out how Saskatchewan Environment improved governance and communications and streamlined reporting in a geographically dispersed organization.

Find out how global manufacturer Ryobi implemented Cognos 8 BI and Cognos ReportNet to improve communication and credibility of information worldwide.

Find out how Mölnlycke Health Care developed seamless integration across multiple data sources for better decision-making and standardized reporting.

Find out how British Columbia Lottery Corporation uses its Cognos 8 BI solution to consolidate data and improve corporate performance management.

Read how the Dutch Healthcare Authority is using Cognos 8 BI and a BICC to provide reliable information and insight to decision-makers.

Find out how Bank of America uses performance management software from Cognos for forecasts, regulatory and management reports, and to calculate reserve requirements.

Find out how aid and welfare organization ASB Landesverband Hessen is streamlining processes and promoting more strategic decision-making with Cognos 8 BI and Planning.

Read how A&D Pharma Romania is reducing the time associated with planning and budgeting, while effectively supporting the decision-making process with Cognos 8 BI and Planning.

Read how the Laurentian Bank of Canada uses Cognos 8 BI to enhance visibility and provide reports in days that used to take months.

Find out how Cognos 8 BI helped the University of North Texas reduce a 500+ hour reporting process to only a few minutes.

Find out how Harrah's uses Cognos 8 BI to increase revenues, develop more effective marketing programs, and serve customers better.

Find out how MassHousing is using Cognos 8 BI for accurate decision-making across the organization.

Find out how car care product manufacturer SONAX Group uses Cognos 8 BI and Planning save time, reduce operating costs, and get a comprehensive overview of sales, products, and the marketplace.

Find out how housing corporation De Alliantie uses Cognos 8 BI and Planning to get concise performance management information weeks faster than in the past.

Find out how the University of Sheffield uses Cognos 8 BI to streamline and centralize student and staff data while saving time, money, and effort.

Find out how manufacturer HallStar uses Cognos 8 BI to increase revenues, reduce inventory by 25 percent, and enhance customer service.

Find out how ELM Resources leverages Cognos 8 BI to manage $22 billion in student loans and to share information with 30,000 users.

Learn how Deakin University has leveraged Cognos 8 BI and Planning to streamline manual processes and get faster answers to key business questions.

Find out how Northern Ontario Education Leaders is using Cognos 8 BI to get the clear and timely data it needs for decision-making.

Find out how insurance leader Folksam leveraged Cognos 8 BI, Cognos 8 Planning and Cognos 8 Controller to reduce data collection and consolidation by 45 percent and deliver fast, accurate reports, plans, analysis, and more.

Find out how Europe's largest fast food chain, Quick, used Cognos 8 Planning and Cognos 8 BI to create a self-service reporting, analysis, and planning environment that fully leverages their SAP investment.

Find out how the City of Albuquerque uses Cognos 8 BI for effective reporting, and analysis across their PeopleSoft and IBM data.

Find out how the use of Cognos BI and Cognos Planning with SAP helped ARDEC (Armament Research Development and Engineering Center, US Army) save $423 million.

Find out how retailer Tisak leveraged Cognos 8 BI to unite data across sales, HR, distribution, finance, and more.

Find out how the world’s third-largest retailer, Home Depot, uses Cognos 8 BI to improve communications and compliance with its army of suppliers.

Find out how the Internet's top ranked search resource for technology solutions, KnowledgeStorm, leverages Cognos 8 BI to prove value, enhance processes, and expand their offerings.

Learn why Cognos 8 BI made the decision to standardize on Cognos an easy one for Mueller Inc.

Find out why Beaut� Prestige International chose Cognos 8 BI, and how it will lower the costs and increase the reliability of their BI platform.

Read how Cognos 8 BI as the standard platform for all business intelligence initiatives at Lufthansa Airlines will maximize decision-making and reduce BI maintenance costs.

Read why Evanston Northwestern Healthcare is standardizing on Cognos 8 BI to drive deeper and more insightful organization-wide reporting and performance analysis.

Learn why companies such as Allianz Life, Austrian Airlines, BJC Healthcare, DaimlerChrysler AG, Deutsche DHL, Maple Leaf Foods, and more have chosen Cognos 8 BI for better performance management

Find out why QualChoice of Arkansas, a leading healthcare insurer, chose Cognos 8 BI as their business intelligence standard.

Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.
“The vision represented by this BI platform demonstrates significant leadership and commitment to Cognos’ customers.” ~ Louis Barton, Director of Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence, Frost Bank

Austrian Airlines Group (AUA)
“The seamless integration between the OLAP and relational reporting capabilities is very impressive in Cognos 8 BI and will let users analyze data even more extensively and quickly than they could before.”
~ Manfred Tiefenbacher, Head of Development and Integration, Custom and Cargo Systems, Australian Airlines Group

Manpower
“The integration of analysis capabilities with Cognos Planning is fantastic and allows for the instantaneous creation of cubes. The new features should provide our users with better visibility into plans, the ability to compare plans to actuals and take appropriate action in a very timely manner.” ~ Vivian Adashek, Manager, U.S. Finance, Manpower