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Best Practices in Performance Management: Monitor, Measure and Manage the End User Experience by Knoa Software September 2008 - (Free Research) This report is the result of a study taken by 87% of IT executives on the best way to manage the service of business critical applications to measure performance at the end-user level. Read this to learn the best practices in performance management.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Best Practices in Performance Measurement and Reporting: Understanding the Global Investment Performance Standards by Advent Software, Inc July 1967 - (Free Research) This whitepaper, written in conjunction with Ashland Partners, explains the steps to becoming Global Investment Performance Standards compliant.  (WHITE PAPER)

Who's Got the NAC? Best Practices in Protecting Network Access by Sophos, Inc. February 2008 - (Free Research) This Aberdeen report aims to further the market's understanding of NAC - its function and capabilities - as seen through the eyes of those organizations that are getting the best results in protecting their network access.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Managing Financial Performance by SAP America, Inc. April 2011 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn why among leading organizations there is an increasing recognition of the value of using unified enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions to measure, manage, and monitor their financial and nonfinancial performance  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Enabling Profitable Growth through Procurement: Transforming the Sourcing and Procurement Organization by SAP AG January 2009 - (Free Research) Sourcing and procurement organizations have great potential to reduce costs, contribute to the bottom line, and deliver against enterprise strategic goals.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Presentation Transcript: Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management: Best Practices for Your SAP Investment by IBM Cognos December 2008 - (Free Research) In this document, Mark Smith and Bob Corson will discuss some common challenges that seen with customers in terms of getting information from SAP data.  (PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT) READ ABSTRACT |

Desktop Virtualization and Storage Infrastructure Optimization by Citrix September 2011 - (Free Research) Businesses rely on their IT departments to deploy a maximum efficiency desktop virtualization so it is crucial for IT professionals to make informed decisions about the technologies they utilize. Access this white paper to discover best practices for achieving a cost effective high performance desktop virtualization.  (WHITE PAPER)

E-Guide: Improving the performance of Web traffic and application delivery: Expert roadmap by Coyote Point Systems, Inc. October 2011 - (Free Research) This expert E-Guide discusses best practices on how to ensure successful network application delivery and what you can do to improve the performance of Web traffic.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

CW+: Analyst's take: IBM Cognos software helps schools score top marks by ComputerWeekly.com January 2011 - (Free Research) IBM Cognos software helps K-12 organizations increase visibility and improve decision making, driving improved student performance, lowered cost of interventions, greater productivity, and lower operating costs.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Presentation Transcript: Using IBM Cognos to Extend the Value of SAP by IBM January 2010 - (Free Research) This paper discusses the results of numerous interviews Nucleus Research conducted with customers that decided to use IBM Cognos as their business intelligence and performance management solution in order to embrace, enhance and extend their SAP and ERP investments.  (PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT) READ ABSTRACT |

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence MidMarket Reporting Packages by IBM Cognos October 2008 - (Free Research) IBM Cognos 8 BI is the only solution that provides complete BI functionality in one product, on a single, proven architecture, it also delivers seamless reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, and event management.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

McCormick and Schmick’s Restaurants Gains New Insight into Dining Trends and Financial Performance with IBM Cognos Express by IBM February 2011 - (Free Research) Sink your teeth into this new case study.  McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurants needed better insight to understand and take advantage of key business trends.  Find out why they chose IBM Cognos Express to deliver that insight and what it means for their success in a fiercely competitive market space.  (CASE STUDY) READ ABSTRACT |

A Business Intelligence (BI) Agenda for Midsize Organizations: Six Strategies for Success White Paper by IBM Cognos March 2009 - (Free Research) Success in business intelligence is all about facilitating sound, data-driven decisions at every level of the business. Read this white paper to learn six strategies for BI success, drawn from the experiences of actual IBM Cognos customers.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

IBM Cognos Express: IBM Financing Advantage for Express Solutions by IBM October 2011 - (Free Research) See how to finance IBM Cognos Express for as low as $25 (USD) per user/month with one-stop financing solutions from IBM.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Fighting the Tide: IBM/Cognos BI Users Reduce Overhead, Increase Operating Profit by IBM September 2009 - (Free Research) Read this report to learn what Aberdeen Group found when analyzing the results of 65 IBM/Cognos BI users who participated in a larger study about best practices for business intelligence during a recession.  (ANALYST BRIEF) READ ABSTRACT |

IBM® Cognos Financial Statement Reporting (FSR) and British Airways by IBM June 2011 - (Free Research) Through the years, accounting standards have changed and older processes need to be refined with the new complexities. This paper discovers how to maintain a master annual report without the risk of inaccuracies with data consolidation.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Presentation Transcript: Maximize Value from Your SAP Investment with Business Intelligence and Performance Management by IBM Cognos November 2008 - (Free Research) In this presentation transcript, Mark Smith, CEO & EVP Research, Ventana Research, and Karen Kirby, SAP Market Executive of Cognos, an IBM Company, focus on SAP investment with Business Intelligence and Performance Management.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Performance Management Solutions for the Office of Finance by IBM October 2009 - (Free Research) Read this brief paper and learn how IBM Cognos can lead finance teams into the next generation by offering driver-based budgeting with vastly shorter planning cycles, flexible rolling forecasts, faster and more reliable financial close and consolidation, tighter control over operational performance, swifter reporting capabilities and so much more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Analyst's take: IBM Cognos Express helps efficient adoption of BI and PM technology by ComputerWeekly.com January 2011 - (Free Research) Senior managers who have balked at the cost and complexity of adopting technology such as business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) should consider IBM Cognos Express as a way to adopt these technologies while minimizing time to benefit, deployment costs, and support costs.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Cognos: FPM: How KPIs can help motivate and reward the right behavior - Paper #1 – Introduction - White Paper by IBM August 2012 - (Free Research) This paper outlines the value of key performance indicators (KPIs) and why it's integral you set annual targets for each of them and measure performance against them rather than develop strategy maps and generate strategic action plans that drive performance improvement.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

CW+: Analyst's take: Leveraging IBM Cognos software with training by ComputerWeekly.com December 2010 - (Free Research) When IBM Cognos users complement their deployments with formal training services, end users become more productive, report building costs are reduced, and more end users adopt IBM Cognos tools such as BI and PM.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

IBM Cognos Online Conference for Retailers and Manufactures by IBM October 2009 - (Free Research) This 2-hour complimentary virtual seminar on performance management (PM) takes place on October 21 and continues on November 4th — Join us to learn how PM can help you improve visibility into your manufacturing business so you can reduce costs, speed delivery and efficiency, satisfy customers and create innovative new products.  (VIRTUAL SEMINAR)

Cisco Tidal Enterprise Adapter for Cognos by Cisco Systems, Inc. January 2011 - (Free Research) Enterprise Adapter for Cognos is an enhancement to Enterprise Scheduler that allows users to schedule relevant Cognos activities graphically in the context of all other enterprise jobs. It puts stored reports and configuration items automatically into the UI. Continue reading this data sheet to learn more.  (DATA SHEET) READ ABSTRACT |

Presentation Transcript: Best practices for integrating and optimizing analytics into your DB2 for z/OS data by IBM February 2013 - (Free Research) View this presentation transcript and learn how you can integrate and optimize Cognos® BI, SPSS® predictive analytics and DB2 Analytics Accelerator with your DB2 for z/OS data to deliver greater benefit to the business — and speed query response times.  (PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT) READ ABSTRACT |

Integrated and Automated Budget, Program and Performance Reporting by IBM February 2012 - (Free Research) Read this paper to learn how IBM Cognos FSR with TM1 helps budget and finance teams to automate the generation of complex, process driven reports while maintaining the agency’s current business processes and disclosure management  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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