Web Seminars

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Overview
See dashboards, ad hoc queries, analysis, and other capabilities working together in a single product.

Reporting
See how to author professional reports against relational and dimensional data.

Ad Hoc Query
See how to build queries against relational and dimensional data and apply templates, styles, filters, and calculations.

Analysis
See how to perform deep comparative analysis and learn about ROLAP support.

Scorecarding
See how to communicate strategy and improve decision-making through metrics, strategy maps, and alerts.

Data Integration (Framework Manager)
See how to leverage IBM Cognos PowerCubes® with dimensional awareness functionality.

Breaking Down Data Silos: What's Your Strategy?
Insights from Forrester Research about increasing user adoption of disparate data sources.

The Truth About Enterprise Reporting
Learn what to look for in a reporting solution and watch IBM Cognos 8 BI reporting in action.

Cognos in an SAP World
Learn how the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) delivered Cognos reports using SAP data in three months.

Easy Reporting off SAP BW
See integration points between the Cognos 8 and SAP architectures and how Arla Foods cut reporting requests to IT by 75 percent.

Easy Reporting
Learn how Mold-Masters uses IBM Cognos 8 BI to leverage SAP and non-SAP data.

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Mobile
Learn about the value of BI on your BlackBerry and see a demo of the new IBM Cognos 8 Go! Mobile product in action.

Discover the benefits of embedding BI into your application
Learn the benefits of embedded BI from industry analyst Mark Smith of Ventana Research and hear how Axeda, a Cognos OEM Partner, has successfully embedded Cognos BI into their application.

Best Practices in Deploying BI Web Seminar
Author and consultant Shaku Atre outlines the success factors in deploying BI.

Cognos and IBM
Learn about data quality, metadata management, leveraging Linux, and integration with Information Integrator.

Are Your Budgeting and Reporting Processes Pushing the Limits of Excel?
This on-demand webinar discusses how you can transform your Excel-based processes in a very short timeframe. It demonstrates the technology that has helped thousands of companies like yours put the full power of Excel into the business user's hands without burdening the IT department.

Best Practices of High-Performance Finance Organizations
David Axson describes how companies are addressing compliance challenges while improving performance.

How to Incorporate Operational Planning into The Corporate Financial Budget
Learn how to add greater depth to your understanding of financial performance by incorporating operational plans. See how a robust plan can link operational measures to expected financial results. Uncover new, more powerful ways to perform variance explanations which facilitate real-time monitoring and more visual approaches for management. Identify the inter-relationships between key areas to simplify the number of demands that need to be planned.

Consolidation and Corporate Reporting-Ensuring Quality and Control
Don Belanger of Deloitte explains the role of consolidation in performance management and introduces a best practices benchmarking tool.

Building a Foundation for Consolidation in a Compliance-Driven World
Forrester, Deloitte, and Cognos discuss how to streamline consolidation and demonstrate how adaptive solutions help organizations manage change.

Linking Strategy to Execution with Performance Blueprints
See how pre-built data models can streamline your planning in response to volatile business environments.

Driver-Based Budgeting & Planning: Step One to Implementing a Rolling Forecast
Join IBM Cognos TM1 customer, Complete Healthcare Resources, and guests from the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable to learn how to implement driver-based budgeting—the first step to a rolling forecast,. Hear about the technology that makes driver-based budgeting and rolling forecasting a reality for your company.

Best Practices in Budgeting and Planning
Do you wish that you could end the recurring nightmare that surrounds annual budgeting? Join Cognos and the Beyond Budgeting Round Table to learn what other successful businesses are doing to end this nightmare and optimize performance.

BI Standardization: Decision and Deployment
Cognos CFO Tom Manley and other experts discuss how BI standardization drives corporate governance.

Ventana Research Study: Reducing Time and Costs Under Sarbanes-Oxley
Robert Kugel discusses recent research and illustrates how to improve consolidation and financial reporting processes.

Leveraging Best Practices to Elevate Performance and Ensure Future Compliance
Learn how to build an integrated, reliable, and dynamic planning process in volatile business environments.

Retail Banking: Driving Profitability Through Performance Management
Insights from Kathleen Khirallah, Director of Retail Banking Research, TowerGroup.

Federal/Civilian Government: Earned Value Management and Project Management
EVM is a project management technique for estimating how project performance against budget and schedule. Learn how Cognos can deliver timely and accurate information to enable your EVM approach.

Higher Education: Driving Performance and Accountability at the University of Minnesota
See how the University uses Cognos BI to increase student satisfaction while keeping costs at an all-time low.

Higher Education: Driving Performance and Accountability at the University of Texas
Learn how the University uses Cognos BI to leverage disparate data, increase competitiveness for research grants, and improve budgeting and planning.

Defense: Sustaining Defence Forces' Adaptive Capabilities
Insights from Forrester Research about using BI to build and sustain adaptive defense capabilities for greater mission readiness and efficiency.

Defense: Transforming Defence Logistics Into Adaptive Supply Networks
Insights from Forrrester Research about using BI to build a network-centric model that supports network-centric warfare.

Health & Human Services: Massachusetts Department of Health and Human Services
See how BI can improve service delivery, lower costs, and mitigate error and fraud.

K-12 Education: Data-Driven Decision-Making at the Georgia Department of Education
Find out how to improve student and school performance in your own district or DOE.

Seven Reports Every Marketing Executive Needs
Ernex Marketing Technologies shows you how Nike, Executive Inns, and Eddie Bauer improve marketing performance and deliver results.

Marketing Performace Mangement: The New Strategic Imperative
Senior marketers from Cognos, Google, and others discuss the new indicators of marketing success.