Enterprise Reporting: The First Step to Superior Performance Management
Even as businesses look to cut costs, the IT department's reporting responsibilities are increasing. Regulatory compliance, strategic initiatives user demands require collaboration among multiple departments and business functions. Enterprise reporting is a way out of this chaos.
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Five Ways to Tame the Chaos of Corporate Data
Enterprise reporting offers a platform that is separate from individual applications and data sources, but can access them all, and thus can deliver the integrated information managers and employees need to improve performance. Learn five steps to overcome major barriers when organizations are limited to spreadsheets and siloed reporting tools.
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From Reporting to Performance Management - A Roadmap
The Cognos Reporting-Led Performance Management roadmap provides a proven method for implementing a performance management solution using reporting as the catalyst; a method consistent with the four stages of reporting-led performance management outlined by Ventana Research.
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Reporting with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
As they strive to decrease their costs and the complexity of their reporting environment, IT managers have been looking for a single, Web-based reporting solution that can address all of their reporting needs. IBM Cognos 8 BI means reporting is no longer complex for IT or business users.
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ROI Case Study: Cognos and Avaya
This case study shows that by extending its Cognos deployment to its value chain operations, Avaya obtained visibility into global operations, protected itself from a supply disruption, and improved worker productivity.
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Cognos: A Leader in Business Intelligence Reporting and Analysis Platforms
Forrester evaluated Cognos’ current offering and strategy for business intelligence reporting and analysis against approximately 92 criteria; overall, they found that the product offers strong unification and component-based architectural features but lacks process and rule association and a strong integration with Microsoft Office products.
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The Performance Manager: Turning Information into Higher Business Performance
This white paper examines the partnership between decision makers and the people who provide them with information to drive better decisions. It offers suggestions for multiple decisions areas, taking into account the need to not only understand your data, but also plan and monitor your performance.
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A Business Approach to Right-Time Decision Making
This Research Report discusses how to unlock the information in operational systems and provide users with a powerful blend of historical and current information, organizations should consider using BI products that incorporate EII technology.
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Evaluation Criteria for Selecting a Successful Business Performance Management Solution
This white paper outlines IDC’s view of the key variables that organizations that have implemented operational applications, such as ERP, CRM, and SCM, should consider when evaluating software solutions to support their internal BPM efforts.
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White Paper: Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
This Ovum Survey of Cognos 8 examines how, with this release, Cognos has standardized and simplified the user interface, extended the reach of BI to different touch points, and made the whole environment more responsive to key business events.
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Competing on Analytics
This Tech Analysis is designed to help identify characteristics shared by analytics competitors, and includes information about 32 organizations that have made a commitment to quantitative, fact-based analysis.
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