Small and Midsize Businesses

Retail & Restaurant Chains

• Learn how the Just Born candy company (famous for Peeps) uses IBM Cognos 8 BI to make the “big picture” connections that help it seize new market opportunities.
• Learn how accurate plans, timely reforecasts, and effective decision-making deliver competitive advantage and better results for Quiznos and Ruth's Chris Steak House.
• Discover how IBM Cognos TM1 helped Bertucci's, an American restaurant chain, improve all aspects of its reporting and analysis, from daily P&L reports to cost management to scenario planning.
• Learn how the Cognos business intelligence solution has stopped the never-ending chain of data entry that left plenty of opportunity for error at Delta Sonic. They now have accurate information which has empowered them to improve sales, margins, and customer frequency.
• Read about how real estate company Realia created a structured information development environment as a pre-requisite to going public on the stock market.
• Find out how US Lumber achieved easy access to data, flexibility in reporting, and analysis on-the-fly for more accurate decision-making and increased customer satisfaction.
• Discover how the beverage distributor Mark Anthony Group uses Cognos 8 BI and Cognos 8 Go! Mobile to improve their sales processes and gain an advantage over their competition.
• Find out why Papa Gino’s and D’Angelo restaurants chose Cognos performance management for planning, to analyze key trends, and to make the necessary adjustments that drive value and satisfaction for guests, and profitable growth.
• Learn how Quick restaurants standardized on Cognos BI and Planning to simplify budgeting and reporting, and enable better decision-making by all employees.
• Read why Harry-Brot, a bread and baked goods specialist, decided to upgrade to Cognos 8 BI as its standard analysis and reporting environment.
• See how Steak n Shake delivers timely performance information to store managers, helping them make quick and accurate decisions about their operations.
• Learn why B&H Photo Video selected Cognos as its enterprise-wide performance management system standard.

Banking, Financial and Insurance Services

• Find out how QBE Regional Insurance streamlined reporting across business units and throughout all functional areas to make better use of their data and free up resources.
• Find out why the Philadelphia Stock Exchange is replacing Excel and Access and standardizing on Cognos to help with securities processing, trade clearing and billing.
• Read how the Laurentian Bank of Canada uses Cognos 8 BI to enhance visibility and provide reports in days instead of months.
• Find out how ELM Resources leverages Cognos 8 BI to manage $22 billion in student loans and to share information with 30,000 users.
• Find out how insurance leader Folksam leveraged Cognos 8 BI, Planning, and Controller to reduce data collection and consolidation by 45 percent and deliver fast, accurate reports, plans, analysis, and more.
• Learn how Cognos BI has helped Frost Bank centralize, standardize, and verify information — helping them significantly reduce costs and increase revenues.
• Read how Cognos provides First Citizens Bank associates with quick, self-service access to customer relationship information from multiple internal databases at the same time.

Pharmaceuticals and life sciences

• Read about how the National Autistic Society significantly improved its budgeting and planning activities with IBM Cognos, providing accuracy, flexibility, and a transparency that supports bids for public funding.
• Read about how Sun World agricultural corporation extended their IBM Cognos TM1 system from the Finance department to Operations, improving their farming efficiency and reducing their reporting cycle from days to minutes.
• Read how Trillium Health Centre is revolutionizing healthcare performance management with Cognos BI and Cognos 8 Planning.
• Find out how Cognos is helping Groene Hart Hospital conduct deep analysis into diagnosis treatment combinations.
• Find out how leading healthcare organization Carante Group uses Cognos BI to gain insight into the key performance indicators affecting the business.
• Learn why Evanston Northwestern Healthcare is standardizing on Cognos 8 BI to drive deeper and more insightful organization-wide reporting and performance analysis.

Manufacturing

• This ROI case study from Nucleus Research examines how, by deploying Cognos Planning, this metals manufacturer increased the productivity of its sales staff and reduced inventory carrying costs. The overall ROI reflected in the report is a very strong 153% with payback in 8 months.
• Read about how automotive products distributor MTU Detroit Diesel revitalized their Cognos deployment with Cognos Consulting and reduced report times from six days to a few hours.
• Read how Maines Paper and Food Service uses Cognos BI and Planning to accelerate decision-making and provide fast, customized reports to customers.
• Find out how manufacturer HallStar uses Cognos 8 BI to increase revenues, reduce inventory by 25 percent, and enhance customer service.
• Find out how car care product manufacturer SONAX Group uses Cognos 8 BI and Planning to save time, reduce operating costs, and get a comprehensive overview of sales, products, and the marketplace.
• Read how Mold-Masters uses Cognos BI reporting to better harness their information and get it into the hands of business users.
• Find out why Cognos BI has become "a way of life" for better decision-making at Vicor Corporation.

Education

• Read about how Deakin University uses IBM Cognos to create policy, manage demand, and meet government reporting requirements with speed and accuracy.
• Read how the City of Albuquerque uses Cognos BI to support its eGovernment and public safety initiatives.

Technology

• Learn how The Ramboll Group used Cognos to standardize the consolidation, planning, and reporting processes, and better business monitoring and analysis.
• Find out how the Internet's top ranked search resource for technology solutions, KnowledgeStorm, leverages Cognos 8 BI to prove value, enhance processes, and expand their offerings.
• Discover how Ricoh UK Products reduced planning cycles by 77 percent, cut costs, improved collaboration, and won a UK business excellence award with Cognos.

Consumer packaged goods

• SONAX, a top manufacturer of car-care products experiences double-digit growth in many areas in recent years. Using IBM Cognos 8 BI scorecarding they transformed the company’s strategy into concrete and measureable indicators. Read this case study to learn why the company’s CIO says “IBM Cognos 8 BI is our new key to success.”
• Learn how Sun World International improved their financial reporting process from hours to seconds – no more time-consuming, error-prone process of manually entering data.
• Find out how Creativity improved their ability to supply North America's largest retailers by consolidating data, reports, and metrics into a portal for the supply chain team.
• Find out how baby food business Milupa uses Cognos Planning and BI to gain better consistency and control of information.

Utilities

• Find out how energy supplier SP AusNet created a near
  real-time dashboard to manage communications for unscheduled outages, allowing the operations center to focus on power restoration.
• Learn how Rumpke Consolidated Companies implemented a Cognos planning solution to streamline its budgeting process and gain real-time information into overall productivity, payroll, and status by line of business.
• Read why Midwest ISO selected the CognosNow! BI appliance to track and analyze key performance metrics across its entire energy trading network.

Hospitality/Entertainment

• Improved profitability and an annual ROI of 1,822%. That’s what Nucleus Research found when they calculated Blue Mountain Resort’s total investment in IBM Cognos TM1 over a three-year period.
• Learn how TV Guide.com enhanced the automation behind their analytical capabilities, created more time and fun in strategic decision-making, increased users by 50% and revenue by 84%.
• Discover how Blue Mountain resort simplified and accelerated their budgeting process, improved their inventory control, and acquired daily access to reports that directly affect their profitability.
  

Construction/housing

• Find out how housing corporation De Alliantie uses Cognos 8 BI and Planning to get concise performance management information weeks faster than in the past.

Public Sector

• Find out how MassHousing is using Cognos 8 BI for accurate decision-making across the organization.

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IBM Cognos TM1 MidMarket Edition

Online Demo

In this brief demonstration, you will see an overview of IBM Cognos TM1 MidMarket’s Edition core capablities, including in-memory multi-dimensional cubes, financial modeling and data integration, developing reports in Excel and publishing them to the Web, as well as the IBM Cognos TM1 Executive Viewer analysis and visualization features.