Small and Midsize Businesses

Small and midsize businesses in a wide range of industries use Cognos software to manage operational costs, improve performance, and gain competitive advantage.

The right technology and solutions
Cognos performance management software delivers value to Small and Midsize Businesses, enabling them to:

• Leverage existing data investments to gain real-time visibility into business processes.
• Reduce costs and improve efficiency across business units, operations, or product lines.
• Track key business metrics and gauge the health of the organization.
• Increase customer loyalty through better customer insight.
• Gain visibility into risk positions and early warning indicators for risk exposures.
• Replace cumbersome spreadsheet-based systems with flexible, connected planning software and reduce consolidation, close, and reporting cycles by days or weeks.

The fastest methods
Cognos, an IBM company, has partnered with industry leaders and knowledge experts to create IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints. Blueprints provide streamlined planning, forecasting, analysis, and reporting functionality. They enable organizations to quickly align strategic objectives, operational plans, people, and activities. Most important, they help drive faster ROI and reduce total cost of ownership.

Flexible deployment
Small and midsize companies choose Cognos to provide flexible deployments that fit their needs and budgets, and can grow with their business:

• Reporting and analysis: ELM Resources, HallStar, First Citizens
• Planning: Rumpke, Folksam Insurance, Sonax
• Scorecarding and dashboards: Midwest ISO
• Enterprise performance management: Papa Gino's and D'Angelo restaurants

Over 3,000 partners and resellers
Cognos has an extensive network of partners who provide products, services, technology, domain, and industry expertise. The broad range of partnerships allows Cognos to meet the distinctive needs of our midmarket customers in purchasing, deploying, and servicing their performance management solutions—efficiently and cost-effectively.

• View all Small and Midsize Businesses Resources
• Learn how to speed software deployment and maximize ROI with IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints

Additional Resources:

IBM Cognos TM1 MidMarket Edition

Online Demo

In this brief demonstration, you will see an overview of IBM Cognos TM1 MidMarket’s Edition core capablities, including in-memory multi-dimensional cubes, financial modeling and data integration, developing reports in Excel and publishing them to the Web, as well as the IBM Cognos TM1 Executive Viewer analysis and visualization features.