Introduction to BICC: A Cognos Presentation
Learn how organizations across a range of industries benefit from having a BICC and find out how to create a BICC for your organization.

Standardization and the Value of the BI Competency Center
At Europe's 'CIO of the Future' conference in Monaco, Cognos met with CIOs and senior IT decision-makers from a range of industries to discuss enterprise standardization and the basics of setting up a BICC.

Building a BICC
This white paper will help you strengthen your understanding, planning and communication of the value of a BICC and its usage in your own organization. In addition, this document may help act as a catalyst to assisting you in establishing an initial plan to define your BICC charter.

Planning and Implementing a BICC
Establishing a successful business intelligence competency center, or BICC, depends on the right planning and implementation. Organizations that take a measured, well-managed approach are more likely to succeed. Those that do will gain wider support, contribute significant cost savings to the corporate balance sheet, and help take business intelligence to the next strategic level.

Standardization and the Value of the BI Competency Center
Cognos met with numerous CIOs and senior IT decision-makers from a range of European organizations, from all vertical markets, at a two day conference in Europe called 'CIO of the Future.' Over the course of four workshops, Cognos representatives and delegates discussed their views on standardization issues, such as the basics behind setting up the BICC and enterprise standardization.

Building a Business Intelligence Competency Center
Learn how a BICC can strengthen your BI-related planning and communication, and determine how to establish an initial plan to define your BICC charter.

NEW! Cognos Business Intelligence Competency Center Service
Learn about the services that Cognos offers to help you build a BICC in your organization.

Building Competency Centers
Multiple solutions. Increasing demand for planning, forecasting and reporting solutions. Enterprise-wide, multi-function, customer/vendor, global deployments. Complex, multi-dimensional, multi-format, secure accessibility requirements. This is the situation facing many organizations worldwide. As BI and CPM become increasingly more strategic, companies are now creating Competency Centers to manage and support these deployments across divisions, regional offices, and functional groups. Cognos conducted research with some of its customers about how they are responding to this challenge. Join this web seminar to hear a summary of these results and experiences.

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

Planning and Implementing a BICC

The case for BICCs

Cognos BICC Survey
Cognos surveyed organizations that currently have BICCs to learn how a BICC helped them achieve their most important goals.

BICC success stories
In this article that appeared in the March edition of the Butler Group Review magazine, learn how Eneco's BICC helped to facilitate their enterprise-wide BI deployment and Balanced Scorecard initiative.

Butler Group: BICC - Developing BI Best Practice
In this article that appeared in the March edition of the Butler Group Review magazine, learn how Eneco's BICC helped to facilitate their enterprise-wide BI deployment and Balanced Scorecard initiative.

BI Competency Centers for Pharmaceuticals
Lower profit margins, increasing competition, and regulatory compliance are all driving pharmaceutical companies to seek greater efficiencies and reduce costs. Tactical BI deployments can help, but these companies need true enterprise-wide BI to gain a common baseline for managing the business.

Listen to BICC podcast
Hear the value a BICC and Cognos are bringing to a leading educational institution in Australia.

Value From your BI Competency Center
Cognos has conducted Roundtable discussions with organizations that have mature BI Competency Centers in order to share best practices with organizations who are implementing BICCs. A new white paper presents conclusions and opinions on topics relating to technology and infrastructure, data governance and availability, promotion, support, license management and business analytics.

BICC User Group Webcast Replay
Listen to the January 2007 one-hour webcast replay that discusses Cognos Conversion Services available from our partner Niteo and the Genware Audit Processor. Cognos Conversion Services provide BICC's with the Roadmap, Methodology and tools to successfully convert from other BI platforms to Cognos. The Genware Audit Processor can be leveraged by Competency Centers to manage applications and provide proactive value to Business and Technology teams.

Four ways to boost BI adoption

Cognos BICC Services
Cognos Consulting offers services to help assure your success in establishing a BICC. We provide awareness materials to help you make the key initial decisions. This is followed by a BICC Roundtable workshop to help you understand where you are, what is possible, and where you want to go. Then we provide you with services to guide you through the process of fully implementing your BICC with a mix of practice aids, methodologies, tools, and technology

BICC overview on Cognos.com
Discover these important guidelines and find important resources to help your organization achieve lasting success with BICCs.

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