Tackling the Challenges of Data Silos
In this article, we'll identify the four key capabilities unique to Cognos 8 BI that help you turn users facing data overload into data that provides a competitive advantage.

Unification Versus Integration
Learn the difference between "unified" and "integrated" product sets, and find out why leading analyst Bloor Research stated that "Cognos 8 has two big advantages over its competitors."

Helping You Help Yourself with Cognos Diagnostic Tools
Timely and accurate data collection about your system environment, Cognos product configuration and settings information are crucial to speeding issue resolution and improving productivity of your IT team.

Reporting: The Catalyst for Performance Management
Reporting has historically been a common starting point for Cognos customers beginning their Performance Management initiatives. As part of a four-part series, we will reveal the business intelligence roadmap that many successful Cognos customers have followed to achieve performance management.

Reporting: The Catalyst for Performance Management
Reporting has historically been one of the most common starting points where Cognos customers have begun their Performance Management initiatives. As part of a four-part series, the business intelligence roadmap that many Cognos customers have taken will be outlined as a practical way for organizations to achieve performance management.

The Performance Manager: Helping to Align IT & Business
Managing Performance requires a collaboration between business decision makers and the IT departments that provide the information that drives decision-making.

Discover the Value of Service-Oriented Architecture
As IT organizations implement business intelligence (BI) solutions, a fine balance must be struck between business user requirements and a solution that fits within your IT infrastructure, both as it exists today and in the future.

Performance Manager demo
See how plans, financial reports, and scorecards from Cognos can help you win with better performance

Beautiful reports, better decisions

Reporting and OLAP: Together at Last

Leveraging Your Data
Hear how you can get more value from your investment in SAP, Oracle, and other ERP data sources with business intelligence.

Cognos 8 BI: No Limitations; No Imitations
A customer-only Web seminar covering the major innovations and new capabilities available to customers in Cognos 8 BI. Dimensional reporting, dynamic dashboards, and deep comparative analysis capabilitues, are just a few of the topics highlighted in this 1-hour session. Join Cognos Senior Product Management to drill into the key differences between Cognos 8 BI and your existing platform and how it fully leverages and extends your existing Cognos investment.

Cognos Vision and Statement of Direction
The Next Wave of Innovation for Performance Management - As enterprises around the world move to adopt performance management, Cognos will continue to direct our products, support, and services toward helping our customers deliver on their promise.- Rob Ashe, President and CEO, Cognos

ROI CASE STUDY: Knowledgestorm
By upgrading to Cognos 8 Business Intelligence, Knowledgestorm reduced the amount of staff required for supporting BI initiatives and significantly improved the productivity of its developers and report builders. Knowledgestorm also created new, more value-added reporting products for its customers.

ROI CASE STUDY: Cognos Planning Metals Manufacturer
Be deploying Cognos Planning, a metals manufacturer increased the productivity of its sales staff and reduced inventory carrying costs.

Tackling the Challenges of Data Silos
In this article, we'll identify the four key capabilities unique to Cognos 8 BI that help you turn users facing data overload into data that provides a competitive advantage.

Five Steps for IT to Drive Performance Management Through Scorecarding
Discover a five step process that can help IT organizations support a management team to quickly see how their business unit is executing against the corporate strategy.

Enterprise Business Intelligence: Strategies for Gaining Broad User Adoption
The need to deliver accurate and timely business insight to all your users is imperative – not only to reduce your workload – but to ensure the organization can react quickly and improve overall business performance.

Enterprise Business Intelligence: Strategies for Gaining Broad User Adoption
Gaining broad support for your IT efforts is not always easy. Getting users to move from comfortable practices or to ease reliance on IT staff and dive into new technologies can be met with resistance.

Reporting: The Catalyst for Performance Management
Reporting has historically been one of the most common starting points where Cognos customers have begun their Performance Management initiatives. As part of a four-part series, the business intelligence roadmap that many Cognos customers have taken will be outlined as a practical way for organizations to achieve performance management.

My Learning Tab
In most enterprise organizations, timely training is crucial to reducing support costs and improving productivity. Equally important is ensuring that training resources are targeted at the correct audience. The My Learning tab in Cognos Connection allows system administrators to determine 'who sees what' in terms of training resources based on group membership within a namespace.

Reporting-Led Performance Management

Planning-Led Performance Management

Transforming Business Through Performance Management
Part 4 in the "Reporting: A Catalyst for Performance Management" series

Driving Enterprise-wide Business Intelligence
Part 3 in the "Reporting: The Catalyst for Performance Management" series

Cognos Vision and Statement of Direction
The Next Wave of Innovation for Performance Management - As enterprises around the world move to adopt performance management, Cognos will continue to direct our products, support, and services toward helping our customers deliver on their promise.- Rob Ashe, President and CEO, Cognos

From Reporting to Performance Management - A Roadmap
See how IT can drive better business performance.

AMR Research Report - Pervasive Performance Management
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Ventana Research Report - Building a Foundation for Successful Performance Management
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Translating strategy into action
An overview of management's core roles-the development and execution of strategy.

Creating the Office of Strategy Management
In an article from the Harvard Business Review, Dr. David P. Norton and Dr. Robert Kaplan describe the benefits of an Office of Strategy Management, and explain how it can help make strategy execution a continuous process.

The IT Executive's Imperative
As companies look to broaden their use of information assets to drive profits and productivity, the market is quickly evolving beyond the stand-alone historical data analysis of BI. This means big change within the technology department, as IT executives reassess how they think about and manage informational assets.

Creating a high-performance culture
It takes more than an executive decision to implement a game changing Performance Management strategy, execute a systems implementation plan, and foster the organizational changes required to make the effort successful. This white paper is intended to provide guidance and best practices aimed at: aligning business and IT, breaking down organizational and political barriers that stand in the way, demonstrating the value of Performance Management, and creating an implementation roadmap for success.

Making Strategy Execution a Sustainable Competitive Advantage
To create competitive advantage, an organization must break through four barriers, involving leadership, structure, process and technology. Learn more in a summary of research by the Palladium Group.

Customer Videos
Representatives from diverse organizations discuss the reasons why they chose to standardize their BI platform and the value it brings to their organizations.

Cognos Enterprise Planning Reference Roundtable
Featuring Princess Cruises Princess Cruises uses Cognos Planning to manage a complex cruise line business that includes hotel operations, restaurants, entertainment, boutiques, multinational crew, self-contained plant operations and more.

Cognos BI Reference Roundtable
Featuring the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) In this reference roundtable web seminar you will hear Terri Mikol, Manager of Client Services discuss how the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UMPC) is using Cognos BI Solutions to manage the complex healthcare business.

Cognos Reference Roundtable Featuring Aviva USA
In this reference roundtable web seminar you will hear Todd Neese, Director fo Business Intelligence at Aviva USA, part of the fifth-largest insurance group in the world, discuss how Aviva USA is using Cognos BI solutions.

More Success Stories
Looking for more success stories? Check out a comprehensive list of customer success stories.