The IBM Cognos platform is an open, enterprise-class platform that can provide your users with the business intelligence and performance management content they need to understand your business and help improve results.

IBM Cognos Insight is a powerful yet simple solution for individual desktop users to access the information you need, allowing you to explore, visualize, build 'what-if' scenario models, and share with others.

Disclosure Management brings together business intelligence data and performance management reports and combines them with narrative analysis in a controlled, auditable environment.

Financial Statement Reporting automates and enhances controls over management reporting and external financial reports and disclosures to help reduce risk and improve efficiency.

IBM Cognos Insight is a powerful yet simple solution for individual desktop users to access the information you need, allowing you to explore, visualize, build 'what-if' scenario models, and share with others.

IBM Cognos TM1 software provides a real-time approach to consolidating, viewing, and editing enormous volumes of multidimensional data

COGNOS Planning lets you create and control plans and budgets, engaging people outside finance in the process.

COGNOS Controller offers Web-based consolidation and financial reporting.

COGNOS Finance lets finance professionals build and deploy financial reporting, budgeting, allocation and consolidation applications in an all-in-one financial analytics platform.

IBM Cognos Express delivers the reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that workgroups and midsize companies need at a price they can afford. This scalable, preconfigured solution can help you discover and act on new insights quickly – while minimizing demands on your IT staff.

With SPSS predictive analytics software, you can predict with confidence what will happen next so that you can make smarter decisions, solve problems and improve outcomes.

IBM OpenPages solutions enable customers to manage risk and compliance initiatives across the enterprise, helping businesses to reduce loss, improve decision-making about resource allocation, and optimize business performance.

IBM Algorithmics software enables financial institutions and corporate treasuries to make risk-aware business decisions. Supported by a global team of risk experts based in all major financial centers, IBM Algorithmics solution offerings include market, credit and liquidity risk, as well as collateral and capital management.

Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is the only BI product to deliver the complete range of BI capabilities: reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, business event management as well as data integration, on a single, proven architecture.

The Series 7 suite of products is deployed by tens of thousands of customers worldwide, meeting their needs for critical business information today. However, many organizations face growing demands for lower TCO (total cost of ownership), more global operations and increasing agility.

Build, distribute, and view multi-object dashboards with graphical elements such as gauges, charts, and clickable pictures. Connect dashboards with underlying tabular data, letting people go from a high-level view to a deeper understanding.

Cognos PowerPlay, the world's best-selling OLAP software, lets users analyze large volumes of data with sub-second response times.

COGNOS Impromptu delivers managed reporting for consistent, fact-based decision-making. Managed reporting enables report authors to create reports drawn from any data source.

Alert decision-makers of time-critical information and make business activity monitoring (BAM) effortless.

COGNOS Visualizer lets users create advanced data visualizations for at-a-glance analysis.

Web-based ad hoc query for real-time exploration.

Monitor your performance against your priorities with scorecards. Set metrics, populate them with data, and link them to show performance against your key business drivers. Enable your Balanced Scorecard.

DecisionStream ETL (extraction, transformation, and load) software lets you unite disparate data into an integrated BI foundation to deliver the reports and analysis that make operational data available for timely reporting.

Ready-built reports, analysis, and metrics for key business functions and rapid ROI.

The Cognos PowerHouse family of tools provides the ideal application development environment for platform-independent server-based, client/server, or Web deployment.

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Accelerate human capital insight to improve performance.

MetaManager allows administrators, developers and authors to simplify many of the complexities associated with developing, deploying, maintaining and supporting an IBM Cognos BI environment.

ntegrated Control Suite (ICS) is a collection of high performing modules designed to empower the entire analytics team and streamline the BI development lifecycle. The patented technology within ICS provides IBM Cognos customers with a natural and simplistic experience including: Version Control, Change Management, Recycle Bin, Promotion, Documentation, Recovery, Auditing, Broadcast Messaging

CPM Explorer is a Windows Explorer extension for IBM Cognos Connection, providing quick and easy access to IBM Cognos consumers' daily activities.

View information on our vastly growing portfolio of Implementation-Based Software that consistently drives quick ROI by extending new and existing deployments with core functionality

How to best integrate the Cognos solution into your applications.

Performance tuning tips, techniques, and questions to ensure that the Cognos portion of your solution performs at its best.

How to change the look and feel of the Cognos solution to more closely match your own solution appearance.

Integrating, automating, and simplifying security with the Cognos solution.

Software As A Service

How to effectively and efficiently test your Cognos solution across a miriad of versions and testing tools.

CPM is an umbrella term that describes all of the processes, methodologies, metrics and systems needed to measure and manage the performance of an organization. CPM can help answer fundamental business questions: HOW are we doing? WHY? WHAT should we be doing?

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