NEW! Leverage Cognos Expertise Along Your BICC Journey Cognos Consulting offers services to help assure your success in establishing a BICC. We provide awareness materials to help you make the key initial decisions. This is followed by a BICC Roundtable workshop to help you understand where you are, what is possible, and where you want to go. Then we provide you with services to guide you through the process of fully implementing your BICC with a mix of practice aids, methodologies, tools, and technology.
NEW! Nucleus Research Guidebook: Enterprisewide BI
Companies looking to increase returns on their business intelligence (BI) investments should standardize their use of BI across their enterprise as a way to increase user adoption, reduce costs, and improve workflows. [PDF - 170 KB]
Butler Group: BICC – Developing BI Best Practice In this article that appeared in the March edition of the Butler Group Review magazine, learn how Eneco's BICC helped to facilitate their enterprise-wide BI deployment and Balanced Scorecard initiative.
NEW! BICC User Group Webcast Replay 
Listen to the January 2007 one-hour webcast replay that discusses Cognos Conversion Services available from our partner Niteo and the Genware Audit Processor. Cognos Conversion Services provide BICC's with the Roadmap, Methodology and tools to successfully convert from other BI platforms to Cognos. The Genware Audit Processor can be leveraged by Competency Centers to manage applications and provide proactive value to Business and Technology teams.
NEW! BI Competency Centers for Pharmaceuticals 
Lower profit margins, increasing competition, and regulatory compliance are all driving pharmaceutical companies to seek greater efficiencies and reduce costs. Tactical BI deployments can help, but these companies need true enterprise-wide BI to gain a common baseline for managing the business. BI Competency Centers (BICCs) provide the centralized knowledge and best practices needed to make broader BI initiatives possible. The Cognos Innovation Center recently conducted a study of four major pharmaceutical firms to document the real-world challenges of designing, establishing, and maturing a BICC.
Standardization and the Value of the BI Competency Center Cognos met with numerous CIOs and senior IT decision-makers from a range of European organizations, from all vertical markets, at a two day conference in Europe called 'CIO of the Future.' Over the course of four workshops, Cognos representatives and delegates discussed their views on standardization issues, such as the basics behind setting up the BICC and enterprise standardization.
Building a Business Intelligence Competency Center
Learn how a BICC can strengthen your BI understanding, planning and communication and determine how to establish an initial plan to define your BICC charter.
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