IBM Cognos 8 Controller
Analyst and Press Views
"Cognos’ new Excel extensions will enable spreadsheet-oriented organizations that have been reluctant to adopt a dedicated enterprise planning application an easy transition. This is a major step in process improvement and adoption of enterprise spreadsheets for high participation planning."
Robert D. Kugel, CFA VP & Research Director, Financial Performance Management, Ventana Research
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Fewer Controls Can Turn SOX Compliance into Performance Gains
Source: Compliance Pipeline
What is the single most challenging Sarbanes-Oxley issue today?
Source: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal
Financial Reporting and Consolidation - Ventana Research
Ventana recently completed a North American study to confirm and demonstrate that a large percentage of Global 5000 companies have issues with their reporting and consolidation systems, that these issues are serious, that they pose a risk to company’s ability to comply with a more formal regulatory environment, and that they present cost savings opportunities. Find out how your organization can deal with these issues.
Additional Resources:
Performance & Compliance: Neither is Optional
Online Demo
Learn how to deal with the paradox of managing compliance while improving performance. This microsite offers valuable insights on how you can streamline consolidation, compliance and reporting processes - while enhancing performance management.
Delivering financial results – with or without spreadsheets – that is the question
Web Seminar On-Demand
There is a clear distinction between organizations working with world class financial consolidation systems and those that continue to rely on spreadsheets and spreadsheet enhanced systems. The Hackett Group will present the contrast between World-Class and Peer Group companies in terms of their usage of spreadsheets for critical finance activities, and the impact that has on the cost, quality and responsiveness of the finance organization. Demonstrations and discussions will help you understand the roadmap to performance management, with introduction of Cognos Controller, the modern foundation required for renewing the automation of the close, consolidate, report process.
Performance and Compliance - Combining To Deliver Financial and Operational Insight
Web Seminar On-Demand
A key driver for improving financial consolidations is to enable actionable performance reporting. In this Webinar, we will share how best practices in reporting are critical to world class organizations, enabling better confidence and decision making. Specifically, you'll see how business intelligence enhances information communication of timely, validated financial results.
Ensuring Best Practices for Internal Controls and Financial Consolidation
Web Seminar On-Demand
Renewing the consolidation process requires organizations to evaluate, incorporate and improve as necessary their internal controls for financial data. The Hackett Group, Deloitte and Cognos will discuss and review the opportunity at hand as organizations improve their internal control environments in conjunction with automating financial consolidations.
Automating financial consolidation – The first, best step in close, consolidate, report makeover
Web Seminar On-Demand
Join us as The Hackett Group, Gary Simon, Editor of Financial Systems News and Author of “Fast Close to the Max" review key process improvements enabled through the automation of the financial consolidation process and the impact this has on the cost, quality and responsiveness of the finance organization. You’ll hear how automation in the hands of finance is the first, best step to accurately streamlining the close process, reducing data errors and facilitating timely results while supporting statutory and compliance requirements.
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