IBM Cognos Express
Purpose built for mid-size companies
IBM Cognos® Express is the first and only integrated business intelligence (BI) and planning solution purpose-built to meet the needs of midsize companies.
It delivers the essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that midsize companies need at a price they can afford.
Everything is included in a pre-configured solution that is easy to install, easy to use and easy to buy.
Cognos Express Features
IBM Cognos Express Reporter ... is reporting software that delivers complete, self-service reporting and ad hoc query capabilities for midsize companies.
IBM Cognos Express Reporter empowers business users to access, modify or create reports quickly and easily. It meets all of your reporting needs with a self-service design that helps reduce the cost and time needed to share information throughout an organisation.
- Delivers the full breadth of reporting capabilities, including financial, production, operational, transactional, managed or ad hoc reports.
- Provides a complete, consistent view of information throughout a company so users work with the same accurate data at all times.
- Offers flexible reporting capabilities and access to all corporate data in any combination for comprehensive, accurate reporting.
- Has simple, intuitive, drag-and-drop authoring capabilities for self-service reporting by any user.
- Can be used with other IBM Cognos Express modules as part of a single, integrated BI and planning solution purpose-built for midsize companies.
IBM Cognos Express Advisor ... is analysis software that quickly translates raw data into sophisticated analysis with rich visual presentations.
IBM Cognos Express Advisor gives business users and analysts at midsize companies the ability to quickly analyse complex data and easily share business insights with high-impact visualisation. Its write-back capabilities enable users to take immediate action for the most effective business outcomes.
- Includes a fast and powerful in-memory analytics server that quickly connects to operational data sources and creates a dimensional view of your business.
- Uses simple drill-down and drill-up capabilities and flexible graphic displays for quick analysis of key areas, such as customers, products and geographies.
- Includes high-impact visualisations and charts, including bar, line, area, pie, radar, bubble, scatter and range charts and graphs, plus geo maps, dial indicators and heat/performance maps.
- Offers self-service access to analytics for all users through an intuitive Web-based interface.
- Produces powerful dashboards that can be created quickly and shared instantly throughout the organisation.
- Can be used with other IBM Cognos Express modules as part of a single, integrated BI and planning solution purpose-built for midsize companies.
IBM Cognos Express Xcelerator ... transforms common spreadsheets for real-time, Excel-based business analysis and optimisation.
IBM Cognos Express Xcelerator extends and transforms the Microsoft Excel front-end with a powerful in-memory analytics engine. It's perfectly suited for multidimensional business analysis and "what-if" scenario modeling, enabling a new level of insight and action for better business outcomes.
- Transform Excel to quickly deliver powerful multidimensional business analysis based on trusted information.
- Build and test business scenarios with powerful “what-if” modeling.
- Take advantage of existing Excel skills and investments while overcoming the risks and limitations of spreadsheet-only processes.
- Update plans immediately using write-back capabilities to align the right resources to capitalise on new opportunities.
- Eliminate data silos and inconsistencies throughout the organisation with centrally managed data, business hierarchies, rules and calculations.
- Use with other IBM Cognos Express modules for a single, integrated BI and planning solution purpose-built for midsize companies.
IBM Cognos Express Planner ... provides planning, budgeting and forecasting software purpose-built for midsize companies.
IBM Cognos Express Planner transforms a company’s planning processes, enabling business users to react quickly to changing business conditions. It replaces slow, cumbersome manual planning processes with automated daily, weekly or monthly planning tools using the latest, accurate data.
- Provides a flexible, structured planning process that is easy to deploy and use.
- Blends a managed workflow with personalised analysis for improved business agility.
- Provides an easy-to-use, Web-based interface for finance and non-finance users to contribute plan data and view current plans with no “coding” skills required.
- Enables managers to monitor the status of every participant in the planning process to assess the maturity of the planning cycle and eliminate delays in adapting plans.
- Handles large numbers of contributors using an in-memory analytics server for real-time processing.
- Can be used with other IBM Cognos Express modules for a single, integrated BI and planning solution purpose-built for midsize companies.
So where do you start?
The Cortell team will work with you to identify your organisation’s biggest and highest priority challenges to kick off the initiative ... where advanced Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting, Dash-boarding, Score-carding and Business Intelligence will have the greatest impact.
For TM1
We look at your biggest problems, such as the daily battle with the data required to support your specific business function and corporate decision making processes. Problems like the collation, calculation, analysis and management of data.
The current state is usually a labour intensive process that is:
- prone to errors
- an operational risk due to single man dependencies
- costly due to over complicated excel spreadsheet reliance
- isolated from other core business processes.
This is a great place to start so typically we commence an initiative by conducting a Proof of Concept with your business stakeholders to showcase how me can remove these issues.
As your TM1 investment continues to grow within your organisation, the Cortell team can then help you build a centralised Financial Performance Management unit (Centre of Excellence), making it possible to share resources efficiently and effectively.
For Dash-boarding, Score-carding and Business Intelligence
We work with you and your team from the Proof of Concept phase to a fully executed enterprise deployment of BI.
If BI is to extend beyond tactical deployments to become a broader-based solution, a managed, predictable approach is needed.
The Cortell team will help you build a Business Intelligence Competency Centre (BICC).
A BICC is essential to the strategic deployment of BI because it:
- maximizes the efficiency, use and quality of your BI across all lines of business
- leads to BI deployments that have higher success and deliver more value, at less cost, in less time
- drives end user adoption to ensure its success (simply providing BI to an increasing number of information consumers doesn’t guarantee more people will use it)
- eliminates the gap between Business and IT
- enables business agility and improved technology management which will help to drive business efficiency.
Why start with Cortell?
Cortell Australia is a certified and award winning IBM Cognos TM1 Partner and Reseller.
Our consultants have delivered in excess of 850 different TM1 business models to over 500+ customers.
Cortell have extensive budget, forecast and planning, cost management and activity based costing skills that have been applied to all industry sectors.
Cognos Express White Papers
The Power of Analytics Maturity:
Achieve better business outcomes by raising your analytics quotient
Reporting for midsize companies
Empower your business with self-service reporting
Using BI & BPM to address the Information Challenges of Midsize
BI & BPM are two disciplines that become critical as organisations progress through the "mid-size" stage.
Transforming spreadsheets: planning, budgeting and forecasting for midsize companies
This paper describes how midsize companies can transform their spreadsheet-only processes to create flexible and timely plans, budgets and forecasts.
It outlines recommendations for implementing a complete performance management system, using IBM Cognos Express®, an integrated reporting, analysis and planning solution purpose-built for midsize companies.
Introducing IBM Cognos Express!
Breakthrough Reporting, Analysis and Planning for Midsize Companies.
A fully integrated, low complexity, easy to buy and deploy solution.
IBM Cognos Express Overview
IBM Cognos Express: Integrated reporting, planning and analysis for midsize companies
Cognos Express Discussion/Quote/Demo Request
IBM Cognos Business Analytics software helps your organization better understand, anticipate and shape business outcomes. You can achieve breakthrough results and outperform your competition.
Cortell Australia will engage your team with senior business consultants who will help you assess which capabilities within IBM Cognos' Business Analytics derive the most business value.
We offer an initial high level assessment followed by a customised demo and quotation. We can also help you build your internal business case.
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