Industry Analyst Reviews

Updated: Cognos positioned in the leaders quadrant in Gartner's CPM Suites magic quadrant.

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New! Case Study: Combining BI and CPM Transforms Planning and Financial Reporting for Folksam Insurance
With a dynamic local market, Folksam wanted to improve performance by driving down costs, shortening cycle times, and spending more time on value-added activities and less time on information gathering. Read how Folksam implemented enterprisewide BI and CPM and achieved significant business benefits as a result.

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New! How Eneco's Enterprisewide BI and Performance Management Initiative Delivered Significant Business Benefits
Eneco was faced with significant business challenges due to industry deregulation, so it implemented an enterprisewide business intelligence (BI) and performance management solution to manage through these challenges, improve customer service and deliver on its strategic objectives.

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Vendor Rating: Cognos
Read Gartner's recently published Vendor Rating of Cognos. Gartner vendor ratings are intended to evaluate a vendor from a business perspective.

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Cognos Named a Leader in Forrester Wave for Business Performance Solutions
According to the independent new Forrester Wave: Business Performance Solutions, Q4 2007, Forrester Research has named Cognos among the top vendors for its Cognos 8 offering.

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New! Building Performance Management Centers of Excellence: Business Intelligence and Beyond
As the line between business intelligence and performance management continues to blur, the role of the center of excellence must expand from technical to business expertise. It must translate business initiatives into an application environment and analysis platform that supports business performance optimization.
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New! Pervasive Performance Management: What It Is and How To Prepare
At the highest levels of maturity, pervasive performance management is an enterprise-wide, enterprise-deep, outside-in strategy that meshes comprehensive operational intelligence with financial outcomes. Find out more about Pervasive PM in this AMR Research report.
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Cognos Continues To Spread Its BI/PM Wings
Read this report about Cognos Forum, the annual conference which hosted more than 3,000 attendees in Orlando during May 2007. Find out how Cognos continues to forge ahead with its performance management-centered suite amidst an ever-shifting landscape of BI/PM providers.
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A Conversation With Cognos
CEO Rob Ashe and COO Les Rechan speak with AMR Research about go-to-market plans and long-term outlook for the industry. AMR Research summarizes its opinion of Cognos in one word: "solid."
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AMR Research BI/PM Maturity Model
According to AMR Research, there are four stages of business intelligence and performance management maturity. AMR Research's BI/PM Maturity Model brings together the four phases and helps organizations move their BI/PM strategies successfully through the four stages of maturity, outlining the special attributes and characteristics of each stage.

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Cognos Ranked as a Leading Vendor for Performance Management in Ventana Research Scorecard
In the recently released Ventana Research 2007 Performance Management Scorecard™, Cognos scored 94% overall for Cognos 8 BI which includes capabilities for query, reporting, analysis, scorecarding and dashboarding, and event management.
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Integration of Cognos Solutions Key to CPM Market Leadership

A leading European analyst firm — The Butler Group — cites Cognos as the market leader through every market phase of the CPM lifecycle. The report reviewed 10 vendors on a broad range of factors.

According to the report, the integrated set of Cognos products can support the needs of a wide range of both public and private organizations, and best support the three core elements of CPM - planning, monitoring, and reporting.
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New! Nucleus Research ROI Case Study - Blue Mountain Resorts
Blue Mountain Resorts used IBM Cognos TM1 to reduce labor costs, eliminate excess inventory, improve reporting, and make more strategic pricing decisions. They had a ROI of 1,822% and a payback of one month.
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New! Nucleus Research ROI Case Study - Metal Manufacturer
By deploying Cognos Planning, a metals manufacturer increased the productivity of its sales staff and reduced inventory carrying costs.
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Nucleus Research ROI Case Study - Trillium Health Center
Trillium Health Center deployed Cognos Healthcare Performance Management to provide its employees with ad-hoc reporting, improve productivity, and reduce software costs. ROI: 46% Payback: 2.17 years.
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Nucleus Research ROI Case Study - Ryerson
Ryerson uses Cognos Planning to both rapidly create a single view of the company's steadily growing operations and improve the productivity of its managers and accountants. ROI: 63% Payback: 1.6 years.
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Air Force uses Cognos to manage personnel and improve productivity
Companies that have not extended business intelligence and performance management to their human resources department should consider doing so. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) uses Cognos 8 Business Intelligence to get better visibility into the deployment of its workforce, manage personnel, and improve productivity.
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Cognos Performance Blueprints: ROI out of the Box
Nucleus Research Finds that Cognos Performance Blueprints “accelerate time-to-benefit and increase ROI”.
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