Cognos Software and Solutions for SAP

IBM Cognos 8 Planning

IBM Cognos 8 Planning is the only proven and scalable enterprise planning solution to provide sensible client processing, proper bandwidth consumption, and appropriate server resource usage.

With IBM Cognos 8 Planning, you can:

• Build driver-based financial plans using your SAP data.
• Fully leverage and extend the business value of SAP.
• Free your Finance team from relying on specialists to make changes to business models, hierarchies, and rules.

A complete solution for Finance

• Build a driver-based planning system.
• Contributors input data in common business terms (market share, units sold, trips planned) while the software calculates the effects based on underlying assumptions that are modeled by Finance.
• Frequent contributions by front-line employees provide Finance with the most current intelligence about expected results.
• Plans created by the executive team retain their integrity as they are communicated down the hierarchy, regardless of the number of contributors or their geographic location.
• Calculations, assumptions, and underlying algorithms remain consistent from top to bottom, enabling everyone to work toward a common goal and increase accountability.
• Easy deployment encourages a broad base of contributors.
• Complete integration with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence.

Support for all data and IT infrastructures

• IBM Cognos 8 Planning easily accomodates data in different formats from different core systems.
• Automatic synchronization of data and metadata (for example, charts of accounts, product hierarchies, cost center hierarchies, or employee lists) with other systems.

SAP version-independent (SAP NetWeaver, SAP R/3)

• Deploy across multiple versions of mySAP and SAP BW.
• Reduce the costs, risk, and effort that come with locking your planning solution to your SAP strategy.
• Leverage all your SAP BW data, including InfoCubes, SAP BW Queries, Master Data, ODS Data, and more.
• Take advantage of SAP security and business rules, including languages, hierarchies, aggregations, currency conversion, and similar entities.

Self-service authoring for everyday users

• Owned by Finance: users can build their own plans or change structures and underlying assumptions without relying on IT.
• Decentralized modeling capabilities enable departments and functions to link plans together and roll them up into a global view of the entire plan.
• Web-based interface lets users contribute to plans with only a browser and point-and-click actions.
• Menus and file names are displayed in many local languages or using any currency.
• Currency rates may be global, local, or tied to specific accounts or elements within a planning model.
• MS Excel add-in provides a familiar spreadsheet interface for everyday users.

Available and proven

• Functionality and capabilities driven by 15 years of experience and innovation and 24,000 customers.
• Reduce risks and time to deployment.

Additional Resources:

Extending the Value of your SAP Applications with Cognos

Online Demo

See full BI capabilities within the SAP NetWeaver Portal.

Empowering Business Decision Makers by Extending Your SAP Applications

White Paper

Learn how to leverage your SAP data with a BI platform that is complete, proven and easy-to-use.

Avoiding Performance Management Pitfalls

Podcast

Listen to Robert D. Kugel, Ventana Research, as he discusses performance management pitfalls.

Cognos Performance Management Solutions for SAP

White Paper

Enhance your investment in SAP applications through connection to SAP R/3 and the SAP Business Suite.

Easy Reporting off SAP BW

Web Seminar On-Demand

See integration points between the IBM Cognos 8 BI and SAP architectures and how Arla Foods cut reporting requests to IT by 75 percent.

SAP and Cognos

Podcast

Join James MacCuaig and Scott Lawrence on how customers benefit by combining Cognos & SAP. Learn to leverage your SAP investment, why Powered by SAP NetWeaver status matters, and how to help users get more from your SAP system faster.

Beware of Performance Management Pitfalls

White Paper

Read what Robert D. Kugel, Ventana Research, describes as performance management pitfalls.

When ERP Is Not the Right Choice

White Paper

Ventana Research: ERP can do more for your company - but it doesn’t do everything.

Evaluating performance management solutions for SAP?

Resource Center

Read what IDC recommends you look for.

The BI and Performance Management on ERP Resource Kit from Ventana Research

Market Driven Event

The BI and Performance Management on ERP Resource Kit from Ventana Research

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