Defense

Customer Success

Read about how Cognos TM1 helps IAP World Service to speed up budgeting, planning, and forecasting with real-time, Web-based worksheets and dashboards.
Learn how access to multiple data sources has enabled management at the U.S. Army Armament Research Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) to improve decision-making. Find out how the use of Cognos BI and Cognos Planning with SAP helped ARDEC save $423 million.
The U.S. Army Reserve uses Cognos to help over 19,000 individuals better manage troops and resources and improve battle readiness.
Find out how Cognos is helping the U.S. Marine Corps unite data, understand information, and disseminate it to troops around the world.
Business intelligence empowers agents and staff from the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations with the best information to identify, investigate, and neutralize criminal and terrorist activities domestically and abroad.
Find out how the U.S. Defense Contract Management Agency has created a performance management framework that provides more cost-effective, accurate and timelier information with Cognos BI and Planning.
The U.K. Ministry of Defence Communications Services Agency (DCSA) is using Cognos to improve its business analysis, cut reporting time and effort, and drive performance. See how the DCSA uses Cognos to consolidate data from disparate sources into a single set of key performance indicators, automate the production of management reports, and share these reports over the Web.
The German Army Logistics Command Office realized that systems integration was the key to effective control, and Cognos was the key to more effective equipment reporting and analysis.
Discover how the Royal Netherlands Army Equipment Division is using Cognos to increase the availability of equipment through better insight into maintenance costs. With access to richer and more reliable information, the army can track use, preventative and corrective maintenance, and see how a change in the way equipment is used can affect maintenance.

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Reporting and Dashboards
Read this white paper and learn how to create all report types for all users with IBM Cognos 8 BI.
Measure to Comply, Measure to Perform
Read how some government agencies have gone beyond compliance to use data for better societal outcomes.

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IBM Cognos 8 BI Reporting

Online Demo

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

Government Performance Management for Defense: Improve Mission Effectiveness, Enhance Operational Readiness

White Paper

Read how Cognos performance management can help defense organizations leverage information and resources to ensure personnel are trained, informed, equipped, and mission-ready at all times.

Performance Management Case Study: The Defense Contract Management Agency

Customer Testimonial

Find out how this U.S. Defense agency has created a performance management framework that provides more cost-effective, accurate, and timely information with IBM Cognos Series 7 and Planning.

CFO of the U.S. Department of Defense, Tina Jonas

Podcast

Speaks to Cognos about good stewardship, clean audits, and her executive budget dashboard.

IBM Cognos Program Objective Memorandum (POM) Planning Performance Blueprint

Online Demo

Learn how Cognos performance management solutions can help defense agencies align program goals with operating plans to more effectively meet mission objectives.

Scorecarding for the Public Sector

White Paper

Brett Knowles, one of North America's leading authorities on the Balanced Scorecard, discusses some unique public sector issues and proven solutions.