Cognos Software and Solutions for SAP

Extending your SAP Applications to Better Manage Business Performance [PDF - 120 KB]

Learn:

• What business decision makers need for effective performance management on an SAP infrastructure.
• How an easy-to-use, self-service offering can get you all working from the same numbers.

Empowering Business Decision Makers by Extending your SAP Applications [PDF - 140 KB]

Learn how to leverage your SAP data with a BI platform that:

• Is complete, proven, and easy-to-use.
• Integrates with disparate data sources and IT infrastructure.
• Enables user self-service.
• Is SAP-version-independent.

Transforming the Planning Function in an SAP Environment [PDF - 94 KB]

Learn how you can:

• Boost your forward-looking capabilities.
• Meet deadlines and calculation requirements more efficiently.
• Increase participation in the planning process while reducing detail.
• Enable frequent performance checks against plan.

Extending the Benefits of SAP Applications
[PDF - 1.56 MB]

Learn:

• How to increase the return on your investment in mySAP (R/3), SAP BW, and SAP NetWeaver.
• How to ensure wider distribution and increased use of SAP data.
• How to reduce IT administration and increase user self-service.

Ventana Research: Beware of Performance Management Pitfalls, by Robert D. Kugel [PDF - 509KB]

Learn about:

• Two Common Mistakes
• Transactions and Business Intelligence
• Why Performance Management Matters
• Different Systems, Complementary Roles
• Information from Multiple Sources
• Ensuring Success

Ventana Research: When ERP Is Not the Right Choice, by Robert D. Kugel [PDF - 53KB]

Ventana's research study "ERP Innovation" showed that companies believe their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can help them innovate in many ways. Yet when they asked survey participants if they had used their ERP system to implement new business approaches or processes over the past 18 months, they found their propensity to use this software differed considerably depending on the business task.

IDC: Evaluation Criteria for Selecting a Successful Business Performance Management Solution, by Kathleen Wilhide and Dan Vesset [ZIP - 280KB]

Learn about the importance of:

• A common enterprise data model encompassing global variables.
• Integrated reporting and analytics servers that support the needs of multiple users.
• A common graphical user interface provides a uniform user experience and ensures end-user familiarity with features and functions.
• Download includes the response from Cognos, an IBM company.

TDWI: A Business Approach to Right-Time Decision Making, by Wayne Eckerson
[PDF - 490 KB]

Learn:

• What business users need from their operational systems.
• The role of dashboards and alerts in enabling right-time decision-making.
• The relationship between Enterprise Information Integration (EII) and business intelligence.

IBM Cognos 8 ReportPack for mySAP FI/CO
[PDF - 70 KB]