IBM Cognos 8 Planning

Customer Successes

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 Wander AG high-quality foodstuffs company uses IBM Cognos 8 Planning to coordinate and streamline their planning process and eliminate decentralized planning islands.
Read about how leading sporting goods company, Sportmaster, developed an improved, automated budgeting methodology and the ability to respond quickly to budget changes.
Find out how industrial packaging company Flexico used a decision-support system from Cognos to achieve control over their ERP data in a user-friendly format that supports user adoption. [PDF - 117 KB]
Read about how real estate company Realia created a structured information development environment as a pre-requisite to going public on the stock market. [PDF - 96 KB]
Find out how FagorBrandt electrical goods company radically improved their corporate planning exercise with a completely centralized and automated process. [PDF - 87 KB]
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. [PDF - 123 KB]
Discover how global medical engineering company, Sonova Group, used a comprehensive Cognos solution to improve financial control, planning, and performance. [PDF - 81 KB]
Find out how Austria's Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) used Cognos 8 Planning to make major improvements in forecasting, budgeting and planning, throughout the entire department. [PDF - 83 KB]
Find out how Miami-Dade County Public Schools integrated budgeting and strategic planning, and improved their audit trail and the cost-effectiveness of their business practices with Cognos 8 Planning. [PDF - 124 KB]
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. [PDF - 85 KB]
Discover how Siza Dorp Group healthcare provider streamlined management data to obtain effective financial and personnel information, as well as error-free budgeting. [PDF - 62 KB]
Find out how aid and welfare organization ASB Landesverband Hessen is streamlining processes and promoting more strategic decision-making with Cognos 8 BI and Cognos 8 Planning. [PDF - 111 KB]
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 Cognos 8 Planning. [PDF - 68 KB]
Find out how Cognos 8 BI and Cognos 8 Planning have created a fluent reporting and forecasting process at Nokian Tyres Plc. [PDF - 106 KB]
Find out how Cognos 8 Planning helped Semler Services A/S create accurate forecasts, anticipate customer need, and create a whole new revenue stream. [PDF - 112 KB]
Find out how garden center Truffaut is saving substantial time and money, while getting more accurate data with Cognos 8 Planning. [PDF - 120 KB]
Find out how car care product manufacturer SONAX Group uses Cognos 8 BI and Cognos 8 Planning save time, reduce operating costs, and get a comprehensive overview of sales, products, and the marketplace. [PDF - 158 KB]
Find out how housing corporation De Alliantie uses Cognos 8 BI and Cognos 8 Planning to get concise performance management information weeks faster than in the past. [PDF - 118 KB]
Find out how Trillium Health Centre is revolutionizing healthcare performance management with Cognos 8 BI and Cognos 8 Planning. [PDF - 88 KB]
Find out how the Zurich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur has streamlined the whole planning and budgeting process with Cognos 8 Planning. [PDF - 119 KB]
Find out how Princess Cruises uses Cognos 8 Planning to optimize operations, share knowledge, and access data from across the organization. [PDF - 220 KB]
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. [PDF - 77KB]
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. [PDF - 100KB]
Find out why the world's second largest provider of employment services, Manpower, chose to standardize on Cognos 8 BI and Cognos 8 Planning.
Find out how the use of Cognos 8 BI and Cognos 8 Planning with SAP helped ARDEC (Armament Research Development and Engineering Center, US Army) save $423 million. [PDF - 159KB]
Find out how Cognos 8 Planning and Cognos 8 Controller have helped Reichle & De-Massari escape from "the curse of the spreadsheet". [PDF - 75KB]
Learn why Volkswagen AG chose Cognos 8 Planning and Cognos 8 Controller to ensure accurate and consistent data to users across the business. [PDF - 228KB]
Find out how Cognos and Accenture are accelerating performance management for the WilliamsF1 racing team. [PDF - 918KB]
Find out how luxury car manufacturer Mercedes AMG substantially reduced costs and workload with Cognos 8 Planning and Cognos ReportNet.
Find out how Cognos 8 Planning, Cognos ReportNet, and Cognos PowerPlay helped significantly reduce the costs and workload associated with budgeting, reporting, and analysis, while achieving a positive ROI in less than a year at Mondial Assistance. [PDF - 208KB]
Find out how the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAA) slashed budgeting time from two weeks to 24 hours with Cognos Planning. [PDF – 60KB]
Find out how Cognos 8 Planning is used by Swiss publishing company WEKA to provide greater accuracy in numbers and an improved overview of their whole planning operation. [PDF – 150KB]
Read how Ricoh UK shortene its planning cycle by 77 percent and provided end-of-month actuals reports in seven days using Cognos 8 Planning. [PDF – 50KB]
Vero Insurance Limited, one of Australia’s largest insurers, facilitates financial modeling consistency across the enterprise with Cognos 8 Planning which results in improved accuracy of their budget forecasts. [PDF – 50KB]
Ace Hardware was able to reforecast more often, eliminate overhead, and reallocate resources to targeted marketing programs with the help of Cognos 8 Planning. [PDF – 390KB]
More effective management helped Ameripath shorten cycle times and increase the time Finance had to monitor key variances and analyze information. [PDF – 390KB]
After a quick deployment, Deluxe Corporation used Cognos 8 Planning to accelerate data collection, improve forecast accuracy, and allow more time for analysis. [PDF – 320KB]
Broader participation in the planning process helped Manpower Inc. increase users’ understanding of cost drivers and improve results. [PDF – 350KB]
Beyond Budgeting Round Table Case Study: American Express
Read how the move from traditional planning to rolling forecasts helped American Express achieve an 8 percent increase in the number of cards in circulation. [PDF – 260KB]

Additional Resources:

IBM Cognos 8 Planning: Agility to Transform Your Business

Online Demo

Learn how to improve your performance through planning, budgeting, and forecasting with IBM Cognos 8 Planning.

Planning and Forecasting: Use Continuous Planning and Rolling Forecasts to Support Adaptive Management

White Paper

Learn how to use continuous planning and rolling forecasts to support adaptive management

David Axson: Building a more flexible Office of Finance

Podcast

Renowned author and Innovation Center advisor David Axson explains why traditional forecasting practices are obsolete, how to liberate analysts from their spreadsheets, and the value of benchmarking in performance management.

Selecting the Right Enterprise Planning Solution: Considerations for Software Evaluators

White Paper

This handbook provides a list of key factors that you should consider as you evaluate competing enterprise planning solutions.

Dynamic Planning for Today's Uncertain World

White Paper

This article discusses transforming the planning process to make it simple, flexible, short, and relevant to today’s dynamic business environment.

Spreadsheet-Based Planning: Rough Road Ahead

White Paper

Read how using spreadsheets for planning can cost you more than lost productivity, but can actually cast doubt on the integrity of plans.

IBM Cognos Management and Financial Reporting Performance Blueprint Application Brief

Application Brief

The Application Brief shows how IBM Cognos 8 Controller and IBM Cognos 8 BI work together to provide enterprise-level financial management and control capabilities including reporting, analysis, metrics, and event management.

Looking Ahead - Leveraging Financial Consolidation and Enterprise Planning

Web Seminar On-Demand

Managing the business looking forward - ensuring the right level of allocated resources and investment across the business - is paramount in today's fast moving, global and highly competitive environment. Whether you are planning for operational effectiveness or strictly for financial management, measuring cause and effect requires financial measures and metrics. Accurate and validated financial data in the financial consolidation system is an integral part of this conversation. In this session we will discuss the importance of planning in world class companies, and the intersection value of the close, consolidate, report and planning processes.

Forecast Acurracy and Investor Opinion

Podcast

Exclusive interview with Deloitte and Baxter.