Solutions for Functional Areas
What is happening?
Why is it happening?
What is likely to happen in the future?
How should we plan for that future?
Comprehensive planning is essential for success. Yet companies often struggle with delivering timely, reliable forecasts and plans that align operational tactics with financial targets.
The Cortell team helps our customers create comprehensive planning by integrating process and analytics of key business functions across their organisations. Business functions such as budgeting, forecasting, revenue and planning with functions such as pricing, marketing, sales and workforce management. This not only allows their organisations the ability to see across the spectrum of the organisation but also provides comprehensive ‘What if’ and scenario planning capability to assess the impact of change in any one or multiple of those areas in real time.
This is the only approach to helping organisations answer the questions:
- what is happening?
- why is it happening?
- what is likely to happen in the future?
- how should we plan for that future?
Cortell is IBM's Partner of the Year for Asia Pacific in both 2011 and 2012, as well as 2010 Partner of the Year for Financial Performance Management. We won these awards because of our ability to execute world class budgeting, forecasting and planning capabilities. Cortell implements the IBM Cognos® TM1 solution, an enterprise planning solution that provides a complete, dynamic environment for developing timely, reliable and personalised forecasts and budgets.
IBM Cognos TM1 replaces spreadsheet-only processes with one fully integrated and dynamic planning and forecasting system that connects operations with planning. With IBM Cognos TM1, companies can:
- link plans and forecasts to financial processes and reports, such as balance sheets or cash flow projections
- refresh forecasts quarterly, monthly, or on demand
- align top-down financial targets with bottom-up plans to ensure that financial plans are synchronised with operational goals.
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Financial Performance software for faster finance insights
Cortell helps our customers implement the IBM Cognos® Financial Performance General Ledger Analytics solution, a packaged analytics application that enables finance to measure strategic plans and overall financial performance.
Cognos Financial Performance General Ledger Analytics provides reporting and analytics that help finance professionals monitor accounts and responsibility centers, comparing results to targets and over time, with detailed analysis of transactions to uncover reasons for weaknesses or strengths.
- Value for the Business: executives, managers and financial professionals can assess the organisation’s past financial performance and determine its current financial standing
- Value for IT: streamlines the process from data sourcing to insight through a robust, model-driven architecture that allows IT professionals to meet changing sales and business requirements quickly and cost-effectively
- Built on the open, enterprise-class IBM Cognos Platform: for greater interoperability with your data systems and a unified view of performance throughout the organisation.
Workforce management software for faster HR insights
Cortell helps our customers implement IBM Cognos® Workforce Performance, a packaged analytic application that provides fast, interactive insight into human resource and workforce issues.
IBM Cognos Workforce Performance lets you analyse factors such as workforce strength, talent acquisition, talent development, retention, employee performance, and compensation. It provides access to multiple, diverse data sources for consistent analysis and reporting.
- Value for the Business: transforms data from HRMS solutions into actionable information, enabling executives, managers, business analysts, and human resource (HR) specialists to measure, monitor, and report on workforce performance
- Value for IT: streamlines the configuration of reports and enables users to add new content to meet changing workforce requirements quickly and cost-effectively
- Built on the open, enterprise-class IBM Cognos platform: for greater interoperability with your data systems and a unified view of performance throughout the organisation
- The Talent Analytics module provides insight into recruitment, succession planning, training and more.
Faster insight for smarter sales decisions
Cortell helps our customers implement IBM Cognos® Customer Performance Sales Analytics solution, a packaged analytics application that gives insight into pipeline, sales force performance, orders, fulfillment and returns.
Cognos Customer Performance Sales Analytics unlocks information in CRM and ERP systems to help analyse pipeline and sales force productivity, and accelerate sales cycles. It enables your sales team to understand performance, pursue opportunities and accelerate pipeline with up-to-the-minute insight.
- Value for the Business: enables executives, sales managers and sales professionals to assess overall productivity and respond quickly to existing and emerging revenue opportunities with easy-to-use dashboards, reporting and analysis
- Value for IT: streamlines the process from data sourcing to insight through a robust, model-driven architecture that allows IT professionals to meet changing sales and business requirements quickly and cost-effectively
- Built on the open, enterprise-class IBM Cognos platform: for greater interoperability with your data systems and a unified view of performance throughout the organisation.
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Create relationships. Build advocacy. Improve loyalty.
Cortell works with our customers to implement the IBM Cognos® Consumer Insight solution, helping marketing professionals transform customer relationships by enhancing advocacy and loyalty for brands, products and services.
IBM Cognos Consumer Insight enables marketing professionals to be more precise, agile and responsive to customer demands and opinions expressed through social media by analysing large volumes of publicly available internet content – and connecting seamlessly to IBM business analytic environments.
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Grow your business: understand your customer needs to target new offers and products more cost-effectively through different social media channels
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Enhance your organisation’s reputation: evaluate your corporate reputation and make evidence-based messaging decisions that target the right stakeholders at the right time
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Improve your customer experience: respond more quickly with accurate, timely and relevant insight into customer requests to ensure a consistent brand experience across all channels.
Faster insights for smarter supply chain decisions
Cortell helps our customers execute IBM Cognos® Supply Chain Performance Procurement Analytics, a packaged analytics software that provides comprehensive insight into spend, supplier performance and contracts.
Cognos Supply Chain Performance Procurement Analytics unlocks the information in ERP, Enterprise Asset Management and other data sources to provide finance, procurement and operations with insight into spend analysis, supplier performance, contract management and overall operational efficiency.
- Value for the Business: enables supply chain and finance business users to manage spend and supplier performance more effectively, with easy-to-use dashboards, reporting and analysis
- Value for IT: streamlines the process from data sourcing to insight through a robust, model-driven architecture that allows IT professionals to meet changing business requirements quickly and cost-effectively
- Built on the open, enterprise-class IBM Cognos Platform: for greater interoperability with your data systems and a unified view of performance throughout the organisation