IBM Cognos 10 is a decision making tool

1. Decision
Support Tools
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2. Decision Support Software
 Decision support software offers an integrated framework for
business solutions
Informed and thoughtful decision-making is the cornerstone of
business success. Transparent decision-making, especially at a
leadership level, instills confidence in employees, inspires trust, and
builds momentum and support for company-wide practices. But
decision-making at all levels requires solid business intelligence.
 Superior decision support software offered by IBM
It's clear why IBM is the premier industry provider of decision support
software. With more than 23,000 clients from every vertical – including
banking, healthcare, manufacturing, and energy – Cognos has
quickly established itself as the premiere resource for decision support
and performance management software.

3. Enterprise decision support
enhanced by relational software
 IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) decision support
software provides the tools users rely on to deliver accurate
information day in and day out:
 Combining analysis, forecasting, and scorecarding capabilities
in one easy-to-use package, IBM Cognos 8 promotes effortless
collection and dissemination of information.
 IBM Cognos 8 BI helps enterprise leaders identify performance
factors, and provides a configurable framework for long-term
planning.
 Browser-based deployment and low maintenance
requirements make IBM Cognos 8 BI the choice for companies
interested in getting results fast. A shallow learning curve means
employees are maximizing the software's potential in no time,
and can respond to conditional changes with little effort.

4. IBM Cognos 10 Solutions for Profitability,
Modeling and Optimization
 In today’s volatile economy, opportunities are here today, but
easily gone tomorrow. View this quick demo to learn how IBM
Cognos 10 software solutions can help you:
 Speed up profitability analysis with a holistic, organization-wide
approach that effectively joins financial, operational and
strategic planning.
 Make decisions based on information from a trusted and
consistent data source.
 Meet constantly changing business needs with greater agility.
 Deliver insights across the enterprise—simply, accurately and
quickly.
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5. IBM Cognos Solutions for Planning,
Analysis and Forecasting
 The complex information sources common in today’s
organizations make accurate, timely analysis difficult—if
you’re limited to spreadsheets. View this short demo to see
how Cognos solutions provide better, faster planning,
analysis and forecasting, and help you:
 Quickly identify business drivers.
 Create, link and distribute planning cubes easily.
 Capture and adapt analysis conducted by individual
business analysts.
 Evaluate unlimited what-if scenarios using a sandboxing
feature.

6. Performance management
 Why IBM performance management software?
 Organizations need the very best tools and disciplines to drive
profitable growth, address regulation and risk. IBM performance
management solutions enable you to:
 Track performance against corporate objectives to identify
performance gaps, and perform ―what-if‖ scenarios to assess
alternatives
 Replace rigid budgets with continuous planning and more frequent
forecasting
 Link financial and operational plans through driver-based models.
 Ensure the quality and accuracy of financial numbers for timely,
sustainable regulatory compliance, including IFRS and XBRL-tagged
reporting.
 Improve financial processes and controls, especially in the final stages
before disclosure.
 Connect key financial processes to core business analytics
capabilities

7.  IBM performance management solutions help
transform slow, expensive and disconnected
performance planning and management
processes into dynamic, efficient and
connected experiences, serving finance, line-
of-business and IT professionals alike and
helping to create ―analytics-driven‖
organizations.