Cognos Software Services

Professional Services, Education and Support

When you make an investment in our software, Cognos Software Services makes a commitment to you: to bring the full range of our personnel, resources, and expertise to your deployment to help you achieve the next level of performance.

Our Professional Services, Education, and Support services:

  • Maximize the value of your investment in Cognos, an IBM company.
  • Help you improve your performance.
  • Increase your competitive advantage.
  • Accelerate deployment.
  • Promote user adoption.

Get Started – Whether you are new to Cognos or a long-time customer, Cognos education and professional services has the resources and a proven, results-based methodology to help you ensure successful deployment.

Get Assistance – Find solutions and resolve issues quickly with our award-winning online support and experienced support analysts.

Go Further – Make every application more valuable to your organization and make every user more productive. You can add new capabilities. Upgrade. Create a Cognos Competency Center. And engage Cognos as your partner and trusted advisor in your journey toward Corporate Performance Management.

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Retail Performance Management: Increase Visibility and Drive Profitable Growth
White Paper
Learn about the benefits of using Cognos performance management to gain deep business insight, improve decision-making, and succeed in the highly competitive retail marketplace.
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Serving up profits
Fact Sheet
Learn how accurate plans, timely reforecasts, and effective decision-making deliver competitive advantage and better results for Quiznos and Ruth’s Chris Steak House.
Retail Customer Story Bundle
Success Story
Find out how leading retailers such as Quiznos and Harrah’s are reducing costs and making better decisions with Cognos.
IBM Cognos Retail Store Development Planning Performance Blueprint
Online Demo
Learn how Cognos retail performance management solutions can help chains align corporate objectives with operating plans to operate more profitably and efficiently.
Retail Perspectives: Maximize the Return on Customer
Article
Three perspectives on the retail industry. Learn how customer data drives more successful campaigns, why retailers need tighter integration with their supply chains, and how the IBM Cognos Financial Merchandise Planning Performance Blueprint can improve inventory planning.
Retail Performance Management Podcast with JCB Partners
Podcast
An interview with Brad Smith of JCB partners. Includes a survey of current trends in the retail industry and how JCB and Cognos partner to provide a retail performance management solution to improve performance in merchandising, pricing, and other key areas and walks through a typical retail performance management engagement.
 
Retail Resources
Financial Workbench and Scorecard
Online Demo
Learn how to create a dynamic retail planning environment.
The value of integrated planning
Podcast
Learn why retailers need a robust and integrated planning process to improve productivity.
Retailers' No. 1 Tech Priority Is Business Intelligence
Article
An Aberdeen Group survey finds that BI tools can improve retailers' customer intelligence, cut wasteful spending and increase gross margins.
Quiznos
Success Story
Learn how Cognos helped serve up higher performance at Quiznos
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