GBS Cognos

Today's business and IT leaders are moving beyond automation to optimize their operations by turning unstructured data into usable business information. Challenging economic conditions and increasingly exacting customers are driving leading companies to improve their information management and business intelligence capabilities.

IBM's Global Business Services (GBS), as the world’s leading provider of business intelligence and financial management consulting services, teams with Cognos, the leader in Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management software, to provide clients with fully integrated, data agnostic, architected solutions for business and finance optimization.

Business challenges:

• Gaining visibility, control and insight into total business performance
• Managing both financial and operational performance
• Planning, budgeting and forecasting to produce a reliable view of the future
• Managing information complexity and gaining control over enterprise master data
• Rationalizing investments in BI and lowering cost through optimized infrastructure
• Providing embedded intelligence and analytics
• Managing risk and streamlining compliance with a single version of truth
• Aligning information and metrics with the business processes
• Accessing and analyzing unstructured information

GBS Cognos services that we offer

• Business intelligence and performance management – Providing relevant, actionable information in time to enable better decision-making and improved business performance.
• Financial performance management – By implementing leading-edge processes and systems to integrate financial information across the enterprise, GBS Cognos helps Finance professionals drive improved business performance through enhanced business planning, performance management and financial reporting.
• Application management services – Reinvest cost savings in strategic initiatives, access expert Cognos IT skills, and accelerate returns from Cognos investments through enhanced availability, reliability and performance. Leverage our global network to get the best skills at the best cost.

There are many differentiated solutions that deliver immediate business value, including:

• Risk insight solution – Develop a single, integrated, enterprise-wide view of risk-related metrics and information across divisions, products, geographies and risk classes of financial services organizations.
• Crime information warehouse (CIW) – Give law enforcement organizations a single, integrated and coordinated source of crime information data that is validated and counted in accordance with federal and state reporting standards and police department initiatives.
• State spend solution – Give pharmaceutical companies the ability to comply with diverse promotional spend reporting mandates and support business rules to accommodate unique state regulations.
• Workforce analytics solution – Provide visibility into a range of data sources through a streamlined implementation approach, to let companies use workforce metrics to support business processes and decision making.

Why IBM

GBS Cognos now delivers to clients through a global delivery model that includes over 500 practitioners in delivery centers worldwide. GBS Cognos offers strategic services, including world-class implementation methodologies, tools and accelerators for clients in 17 target industries. We draw expertise across the entire IBM Global Business Services organization and have the greatest breadth and depth of experience in the BI and BPM industry.

With IBM's acquisition of Cognos, our clients now have the ability to measure, understand and plan for their businesses, independent of the type and number of their core business systems. The combination of the leading Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance management software with the leading provider of Business Intelligence and Financial Management consulting services provides our clients with a fully integrated, data agnostic, architected set of solutions that enable business and finance transformation.

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