Business Intelligence Journal

MarineMax, (NYSE: HZO), the largest recreational boat retailer in the United States, is using IBM business analytics to streamline operational planning, improve decision-making, and enforce more consistent, collaborative information access across the company. Since implementing the solutions, the retailer has been able to cut inventory costs, improve return on marketing spending, and reduce overall planning [...]

Cognos announced that Nestlé has selected Cognos 8 Business Intelligence to complement its SAP Business Warehouse reporting solution. Nestlé has already deployed SAP Business Warehouse as its global standard for data warehousing and analytical reporting. The company will use Cognos 8 BI to complement the SAP Business Warehouse front end to give power users the [...]

MassHousing, a provider of affordable housing for both individuals and major developments across Massachusetts, needed a flexible and robust BI solution capable of generating an integrated portal reporting system for its Executive Information System (EIS), which bridges six separate business divisions: Home Ownership, Rental Development, Rental Management, Corporate, Mortgage, Insurance and MassHousing Overall. MassHousing selected [...]

Jenzabar, Inc. is extending its long-standing partnership with Cognos by offering the powerful Cognos 8 Business Intelligence suite to new and existing Jenzabar customers. In conjunction with the Jenzabar family of administrative solutions, Cognos 8 BI will deliver a complete range of BI capabilities to Jenzabar clients: reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, and business event management [...]

Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN) today previewed Cognos 8 BI Analysis for Microsoft Excel®, a new enterprise BI capability that enables Microsoft Excel users to directly access centrally controlled and secured Cognos 8 BI performance information for improved decision-making. The self-service nature of the new capability will make it easy for business analysts, financial analysts [...]

Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN) announced today that Achmea Insurance Group has standardized on Cognos 8 Business Intelligence to support its financial and business planning and reporting. Achmea, the largest insurance group in the Dutch market, employs 22,000 people working in six departments: Care, Pensions, Social Security, Direct Distribution, Monetary Distribution and Intermediary Distribution, and [...]

Cognos announced the availability of the third in a series of three White Papers exploring core principles of effective data visualization. Spanning more than 2,000 years of recorded human history, Data Visualization: Past, Present, and Future examines the birth and evolution of data visualization, from early Egyptian tables used to organize astronomical information through bar [...]

Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN) announced its support for IBM’s new Dynamic Warehousing initiative, geared to helping customers use advanced analytics as part of a real-time business process, and unlock knowledge buried in both structured and unstructured information. Building upon IBM’s enhanced version of the DB2 Warehouse and based on the DB2 9 Viper data [...]

Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN) announced that the Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) has standardized on Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) for a more unified and complete view of organizational performance. The first securities exchange in the U.S., and founded in 1790, the PHLX has a strong tradition of innovation and continues to respond to the [...]

Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the provider of business intelligence and performance management solutions, has announced that the University of Sheffield has selected Cognos 8 Business Intelligence to reduce administration time for all student and staff reporting. Information on over 24,000 students and 6,000 staff from the University’s student, finance, HR and payroll, research management [...]