Business Intelligence for Siebel

Overview

“Ventana Research believes that organizations should build a specific BI strategy that is independent of their application server and transaction applications like ERP, SCM and CRM to minimize the risk of project delays and time to providing access to critical business information across the enterprise.”
~Mark Smith, CEO and EVP Research, Ventana Research, Oracle Re-Enters BI Market Seeking Leadership Position, April 2006

Combining IBM Cognos 8 BI with Siebel can:

Lower your total cost of ownership.
Increase your return on investment.
Enable a wider distribution of valuable information from Siebel and non-Siebel data.

NEW! IBM Cognos 8 Report Pack for Siebel CRM

Extend the value of your current enterprise investments by providing business users with the ability to combine in one report or dashboard, historic data from the data warehouse with current data in Siebel CRM without additional coding. Combining IBM Cognos 8 BI and IBM Cognos 8 Report Packs allows you to:

Achieve the most complete view of enterprise performance while eliminating costs and effort required for separate operational reporting projects.
Deliver pre-defined content for more than 60 commonly used reports to provide immediate access to Siebel data within a business context.
The IBM Cognos Data Adapter provides one-click connectivity into Siebel, delivering secure and trusted pathways to build additional reports. The IBM Cognos 8 Report Packs and IBM Cognos Data Adapter extend underlying functionality provided by Composite Software.

Combining IBM Cognos 8 Report Packs and IBM Cognos 8 BI helps your organization create a performance management platform that is:

Simple
All BI capabilities in IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence are built on a single Web services architecture. You can easily integrate BI capabilities with Seibel and your other existing technology assets.

Deploy one product on a single, standards-based architecture for all of your business intelligence needs.
Add capabilities or modify them at any time to meet changing business conditions and user needs.
Provide everyone across your organization with a single, trusted source for information.
Eliminate the management and maintenance of duplicate services such as security.
Centralized metadata model lets you apply consistent business rules, calculations, and dimensions to your data.

Complete
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence provides Siebel users with the full range of BI capabilities necessary to improve decision-making.

Serve all users with information and BI capabilities that match their needs. Connect disparate data systems to deliver a common business view of your data.
Apply consistent business rules, dimensions, and calculations to data for a complete, consistent view of any business issue.

Proven
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is built on a proven architecture. Use the complete capabilities of IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence against your Siebel data:

Reporting and Interactive Dashboards
Active Scorecarding
Business Event Management

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Siebel and Cognos

Podcast

Join James MaCuaig and Doug Adams on the benefits of BI insights into your Siebel CRM data. Learn the top three areas of value, hear how one auto maker drove sales, and look at fast, self serve reporting, analysis, and more for Siebel users.

How to Leverage SAP, Siebel or Other ERP Data without Losing Control

Web Seminar On-Demand

Find out how to maximize your investment in Siebel, SAP, Oracle, and more with Cognos.

Avoiding Performance Management Pitfalls

White Paper

Read what Robert D. Kugel, Ventana Research, describes as performance management pitfalls.

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence - Full Overview

Online Demo

Complete capabilities in one product, on a single architecture. See key features for both business and IT users, including Framework Manager, the Adminstration Console, and integration with Microsoft Excel.

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