Solutions for Industry

Consumers are getting smarter

They’re incorporating new technologies and more information into their daily lives. People are more connected, empowered and demanding than ever before, and as such, they can choose where, how and when they want to shop.

More than ever, it’s a buyer’s market. This presents challenges for retailers, who have to provide a seamless shopping experience – providing the right products in the right place.

For this reason, Retailer "Standouts" are looking at how household economics and human behavior affects shopping behaviour.

“ Retailing is emerging as a real-world incubator for testing how computer firepower and smart software can be applied to social science – in this case, how variables like household economics and human behavior affect shopping.” - NewYork Times1

Thousands of retailers worldwide rely on IBM Business Analytics software to deliver smarter retail.

1 Steve Lohr, A Data Explosion Remakes Retailing, The New York Times, January 3, 2010.

Aligning innovation with business strategy, inventory optimisation, intelligent supply chains and technology

Whether it be a weak, recovering or strong economy, the fundamental strategies for surviving and thriving still hold true.

Manufacturers and consumer product companies have to be highly efficient to meet demand, production and supply requirements. Costs and resources also have to be managed carefully and intelligently.

At the same time, companies are considering new tactics: aligning innovation with business strategy, inventory optimisation, intelligent supply chains and technology as a focal point of business strategy. This is where IBM Business & Supply Chain analytics for manufacturing & consumer product companies can help your organisation. In fact, many of the top industrial sector businesses and consumer product companies worldwide are already relying on IBM Business Analytics software to deliver smarter operations and performance, including:

19 of the top 20 manufacturers
all of the top ten automakers.

Insight, speed, accuracy and integrated analytical processes in financial services

There’s no doubt that today’s economic conditions have sparked a range of challenges for financial services companies including:

compromised cash flows
difficulty managing risk
compliance
declining sales, revenues and profits.

The recent crisis has transformed the competitive landscape, how the industry operates and the way in which its clients behave.

With information pouring into the organisation, the financial services industry is constantly challenged to turn vast data stores into actionable insight.

Bottom line ... financial services organisations must respond to economic challenges by shoring up internal operations and streamlining the integration across important business functions to ensure that the organisation is running at peak efficiency.

IBM Business Analytics software is a proven solution—one that has been successfully implemented at thousands of financial services organisations worldwide, including:

four of the top five banks in the world
all of the top five banks in North America and Europe
four of the top five global P&C insurers
four of the top five North American insurance companies
five of the top seven insurance companies in the world.

A smarter planet with IBM Cognos Analytics for education

Institutions are under increasing pressure to continue to advance student and staff successes with continued budget pressures, and stringent compliance and transparency requirements.

Achieving this success without trusted information to drive optimal decisions makes the business of managing education a challenge.

Many institutions are faced with organisational data silos and a lack of a singular view of performance and accountability. By applying IBM Business Analytics, many higher-education institutions have torn down those silos and achieved a complete view of students, programs and budgets. They now have an alignment with institutional strategy and execution and can:

identify and accelerate the recruitment of the right students to achieve their institutional goals
enhance university advancement and alumni management capability
improve student performance and retention
improve operational efficiencies.

IBM Business Analytics software for Education provides an integrated platform for educational performance management.

Gain visibility across the entire travel & transportation ecosystems

Companies across the travel and transportation industries are increasingly turning to IBM Cognos software to provide the sustainable competitive advantage that comes from performance management technologies.

Changing economic conditions spark a range of challenges including:

compromised cash flows
difficulty managing inventories to meet fluctuating demand
declining sales, revenues and profits.

Never before has it been so essential for travel and transportation companies to get the answers they need. For airlines, freight and logistic, rail and travel services companies, IBM delivers world-leading enterprise planning, consolidation and business intelligence software, to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance.

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence software lets you consolidate, track, analyse and report on relevant data. Financial performance and strategy management software provides planning, budgeting and consolidation for linking strategy to dynamic plans and targets.

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