Good decisions are the building blocks of great midsize business performance. The business intelligence and performance management system from IBM integrates software, services, best-practices, and partners. The result is better understanding throughout the organization, greater accountability, and actions based on answers to your most basic business questions:
- How are we doing? Scorecards and dashboards for measuring and monitoring performance to track your key metrics.
- Why? Reporting and multidimensional analysis to gain insight and spot trends and anomalies.
- What should we be doing? Planning, budgeting, and forecasting that aligns operational tactics with financial targets.
IBM Cognos solutions deliver the complete range of BI and performance management capabilities for midsize businesses—all built on a single, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and with a low total cost of ownership. With IBM Cognos BI and performance management solutions, you can:
- Create more accurate, more useful plans, budgets and forecasts in less time
- Communicate clearly across the entire organization using scorecards and dashboards that provide an at-a-glance view of performance levels and emerging trends.
- Track key performance metrics across processes, products, or supply chains, and drill through to transaction details.
- Perform fast analysis to get to the "why" behind an event or action.
- Drill down to discover underlying trends that affect customer behavior, sales, marketing, and supply chain performance.
IBM Business Partner business intelligence (BI) solutions
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IBM and JDA
Delivers integrated software and professional services for the retail demand chain.
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IBM and KANA
Provides e-customer relationship management applications, helping businesses better service, market to, and understand their customers and partners, while improving results and decreasing costs in contact centers and marketing departments.
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IBM and Lawson
Provides business-process software solutions that help services organizations in the health care, retail, professional services, public sector, financial services, and other strategic markets achieve competitive advantage.
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IBM and Lawson (Intentia)
Offers a one-stop shop for collaboration needs within numerous industry segments.
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IBM and MicroStrategy
Helps corporations transform their operational data into actionable information. MicroStrategy's business intelligence platform, MicroStrategy 7i, gives businesses solutions to their query, reporting, and advanced analytical needs, and distributes insight to users through Web, wireless and voice technology.
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IBM and Pegasystems
Offers a patented rules engine to deliver starter-kit capabilities that healthcare, insurance, financial services and retail organizations need to drive their customer relationship management strategies and provide superior customer care.
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IBM and Relavis
Provides a comprehensive CRM solution that uses collaborative technologies and is based on the IBM Application Framework for e-business.
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IBM and SAP
Provides solutions for improving relationships, streamlining operations and tightening the supply chain.
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IBM and SPSS Inc.
Provides technology that transforms data into insight through the use of predictive analytics and other analytic techniques.
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IBM and Tecsys
Provides powerful enterprise business and logistics solutions for mid- to large-size distribution operations.
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We're here to help
We'll work with you to understand your needs, determine the best options and find the IBM representative and/or IBM Business Partner that is right for you. Contact the Express Advantage Concierge, a team of specialists dedicated to mid-sized business at 1-877-IBM-ACCESS (426-2223).

