Decision Support Tools

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KESHAW KUMAR SAHU

Decision Support Software

Decision support software offers an integrated framework for business solutions

Informed and thoughtful decision-making is the cornerstone of business success. Transparent decision-making, especially at a leadership level, instills confidence in employees, inspires trust, and builds momentum and support for company-wide practices. But decision-making at all levels requires solid business intelligence.

Superior decision support software offered by IBM

It's clear why IBM is the premier industry provider of decision support software. With more than 23,000 clients from every vertical – including banking, healthcare, manufacturing, and energy – Cognos has quickly established itself as the premiere resource for decision support and performance management software.

Enterprise decision support enhanced by relational software

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) decision support software provides the tools users rely on to deliver accurate information day in and day out:

Combining analysis, forecasting, and scorecarding capabilities in one easy-to-use package, IBM Cognos 8 promotes effortless collection and dissemination of information.

IBM Cognos 8 BI helps enterprise leaders identify performance factors, and provides a configurable framework for long-term planning.

Browser-based deployment and low maintenance requirements make IBM Cognos 8 BI the choice for companies interested in getting results fast. A shallow learning curve means employees are maximizing the software's potential in no time, and can respond to conditional changes with little effort.

IBM Cognos 10 Solutions for Profitability, Modeling and Optimization

In today’s volatile economy, opportunities are here today, but easily gone tomorrow. View this quick demo to learn how IBM Cognos 10 software solutions can help you:

Speed up profitability analysis with a holistic, organization-wide approach that effectively joins financial, operational and strategic planning.

Make decisions based on information from a trusted and consistent data source.

Meet constantly changing business needs with greater agility.

Deliver insights across the enterprise—simply, accurately and quickly.

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IBM Cognos Solutions for Planning, Analysis and Forecasting

The complex information sources common in today’s organizations make accurate, timely analysis difficult—if you’re limited to spreadsheets. View this short demo to see how Cognos solutions provide better, faster planning, analysis and forecasting, and help you:

Quickly identify business drivers.

Create, link and distribute planning cubes easily.

Capture and adapt analysis conducted by individual business analysts.

Evaluate unlimited what-if scenarios using a sandboxing feature.

Performance management

Why IBM performance management software?

Organizations need the very best tools and disciplines to drive profitable growth, address regulation and risk. IBM performance management solutions enable you to:

Track performance against corporate objectives to identify performance gaps, and perform “what-if” scenarios to assess alternatives

Replace rigid budgets with continuous planning and more frequent forecasting

Link financial and operational plans through driver-based models.

Ensure the quality and accuracy of financial numbers for timely, sustainable regulatory compliance, including IFRS and XBRL-tagged reporting.

Improve financial processes and controls, especially in the final stages before disclosure.

Connect key financial processes to core business analytics capabilities

IBM performance management solutions help transform slow, expensive and disconnected performance planning and management processes into dynamic, efficient and connected experiences, serving finance, line-of-business and IT professionals alike and helping to create “analytics-driven” organizations.