Small and Midsize Businesses

Cognos, an IBM company, offers performance management solutions, packaged and priced for the small to midsize organization. With Cognos, you can make timely, informed decisions and improve productivity across the business–while maximizing value and return.

Scorecarding and dashboards

• Provide an at-a-glance view of business issues for faster insights and immediate action.
• Track real-time key performance metrics and spot emerging trends.
• Unite data from different areas such as sales, marketing, finance, HR, and operations to see a complete, multi-department picture.
• Monitor performance across processes, products, or supply chains, and drill through to the transaction details when required.
• Use operational dashboards for up-to-the-minute visibility into the business.

Reporting and analysis

• Perform analysis quickly and easily to get to the "why" behind an event or action to improve business performance.
• Analyze what has changed over previous years, quarters, or months.
• Use a single authoring environment for creating all report types.
• Embed live applications, Web sites, and non-BI content within a report.
• Share information with key partners and suppliers through a BI extranet.
• Flexible consumer modes let users view and consume reports, analyses, and other BI content using familiar applications and devices such as a BlackBerry®, search engine, MS Office application, or Web browser.

Planning

• Turn strategy into discrete plans and budgets for employees and external partners.
• Provide real-time feedback to planning process participants.
• Build strategic plans that maximize operational effectiveness and inform both operational and financial plans.
• Realign plans quickly as business or market conditions change.
• Manage performance by integrating planning with Cognos reporting and analysis.

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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.