Banking

Overview

Over 1,000 retail, corporate, and investment banking institutions trust Cognos, an IBM company, to increase customer, product, and channel profitability, manage and reduce risk, address compliance issues, and improve the predictability of financial performance. For them we offer:

The Right Technology and Solutions

Cognos integrated performance management software and services deliver value to the world's largest financial institutions enabling them to:

• Leverage their existing data investment to identify, report on, and analyze costs of trade, staff performance, risk management, branch profitability, loan performance, and customer profitability, among others.
• Aggregate risk (credit, operational, market, country) data from multiple silos, diverse business lines, all regions, and across the organization to deliver enterprise risk reporting.
• Augment or replace cumbersome spreadsheet-based systems with flexible, connected planning software that reduces forecasting, consolidation, close, and reporting cycles by days or weeks.
• Manage multiple reporting and consolidation standards such as IAS, Basel II, and U.S.-based GAAP; inter-company elimination and reconciliation; multicurrency translation; complex ownership calculations, and financial consolidation rules.

The Fastest Methods

Financial organizations have no time to waste in implementing software to achieve maximum value and ROI. That’s why only Cognos offers a suite of IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints to address planning and performance management process areas that directly impact an organization’s ability to create business value. Blueprints consist of targeted, pre-built data, process and policy models based on proven best-practices in bank operations planning, budgeting, and forecasting. They also combine the power of IBM Cognos 8 BI for reporting, analysis, scorecards, and more. They offer the fastest route to:

• The IBM Cognos Relationship Pricing for Commercial Banking Performance Blueprint
• The IBM Cognos Risk-Adjusted Profitability Performance Blueprint
• IBM Cognos Customer Segment for Retail Banks Performance Blueprint
• IBM Cognos Customer Segment for Corporate Banks Performance Blueprint
• IBM Cognos Retail Branch Performance Blueprint

The Requisite Experience

Many of the leading players in banking already choose Cognos, including:

• Nine of the top 10 banks in Europe
• All the top 10 banks in the USA
• All of the top 10 commercial banks in the world

Additional Resources:

IBM Cognos 8 BI Reporting

Online Demo

See real-world reporting scenarios for casual business users and professional report authors.

Planning in the Financial Services Industry

White Paper

Find out the technology and best practices for effective budgeting, forecasting, planning, and reporting.

Cognos and Risk Management: Managing Risk Through Business Intelligence

Online Demo

See how business intelligence can help you analyze and report on risk exposure in your company.

Business Intelligence and Banking

White Paper

Find out from Datamonitor Analyst Jaroslaw Knapik how banks are managing risk, getting deeper understanding into customers, and becoming more operational efficient with BI.

Banking Customer Story Bundle

Success Story

Learn how banks such as HSBC Hong Kong are using Cognos to reduce risk and increase profitability.

Rapid Scorecarding for financial services

White Paper

Find out the value of scorecarding and the five key steps to creating an effective one.

Customer profitability in real-world banking: A large global bank finds simple ways to make customers more profitable

White Paper

Read this paper to understand how large banks are leveraging BI to making their customers more profitable.

Business Intelligence in Retail Banking

Analyst Report

Find out how banks are using BI to enhance decision-making and profitability.

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