Business Intelligence Standardization

Overview

Cognos customers and leading analyst firms such as Gartner confirm the value of standardizing your business intelligence and reporting.

Standardization delivers tangible and proven benefits to your business:

• Spend less time evaluating software; spend more time creating value.
• Create new reports or modify existing ones quickly and easily.
• Meet the needs of all your users, regardless of their needs or skill level.
• Add new capabilities easily for ongoing incremental value.
• Esselte chose Cognos business intelligence to build a flexible, common platform for users with different needs and different levels of sophistication.

• Fewer products to learn and use means greater business effectiveness and lower costs.
• Fewer products to integrate into your IT environment increases speed and lowers costs.
• Fewer products to install, maintain, and support reduces costs.
• Austrian Airlines standardized on Cognos business intelligence and lowered their total cost of ownership through fewer solutions to manage and maintain.

• Deliver the important single version of the truth necessary for consistent decision-making.
• Create a common language for key technical and business terms: "catalog" vs. "model" vs. "universe".
• Communicate what happened and why.
• Werner standardized on Cognos business intelligence and now drives better performance with a single version of the truth for sales and manufacturing operations.

More: Benefits and Value

Additional Resources:

Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting: Simplify the IT Environment Reduce Your TCO Increase Your ROI.

White Paper

Read about the factors to consider in standardizing your BI, the importance of TCO, and why IBM Cognos 8 BI is the only choice for BI standardization.

Cognos Performance Manager

Online Demo

See how plans, financial reports, and scorecards can help you manage performance across all data sources.

Full Promise of IBM Cognos 8 BI White Paper

White Paper

Read about the value of a Web Services architecture, how IBM Cognos 8 BI provides all capabilities to all users, and using all data, and how IBM Cognos 8 BI provides a foundation for performance management.

Fulfilling the Promise of Business Intelligence

Analyst Report

Read about the barriers that BI has faced in the past, and how IBM Cognos 8 BI overcomes them. With commentary from IBM Cognos 8 BI beta testers.

Bloor Research: Unification vs. Integration

Analyst Report

Read Philip Howard's views on the business and IT benefits of a unified BI platform.

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