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Planning and Forecasting Solution for

Agenda

Solution Overview & Unique Value Propositions

Client References

Q & A

Why IBM Cognos ?

Tailored for Business users

Performance Management leadership in major industries

Single Integrated Platform for entire planning process

Functional Best Practice Blueprints

One Technology, Multiple Applications

Speed

Flexibility

Business User Ownership

IBM Cognos Planning Solutions

Complete Performance Management Solutions• Read/Write Planning & What-If• Ad Hoc Analysis and Formatted Reporting

Compensation Management (Oxy) Sales Performance Management (Varicent) Staffing Optimization (Interstate Hotels) Training Certification (Anhueser-Busch) Intranet Employee Portal (HP)

Retail Sales Analysis (Sainsburys) New Product Planning (Hot Topic) Customer Profitability (CitiGroup) Customer Churn Analysis (Pelephone)

Financial Consolidations (The Hartford) Financial Reporting (Viacom) Planning (Bristol Myers Squibb) Driver Based Budgeting (Huntsman) Rolling Forecasts (Biovail Pharm.) Risk Analysis (Barclaycard)

Demand Analysis (Scottish & Southern) Inventory Optimization (Lowe’s) Logistics Planning (Lufthansa) Product Profitability (Cadbury Schweppes) Production Planning (GM)

Financial Operations

Workforce Customer

Cognos Unique Value Propositions

Ease of use and minimal change management– Tightly Integrated with Excel and Web– Shorter Learning Curve– Minimal IT administration effort and self maintained solution– Data Integration risk is minimized

Shorter Implementation Time– Lot less project time than similar products– Lower total cost of ownership and faster ROI

Built-in Functions for Budget, Planning – helps users perform difficult tasks in seconds

Strong Hong Kong Local Presence and Customer Support

In Memory Architecture and 64 bit Platform– Real Time – Fastest Reporting, Modeling, Forecasting– Handles Massive Data with Better Performance

Data Integration tool – Turbo IntegratorOther Sources

Budget Owners input data via Excel or Web

Finance Team consolidate inputs and conduct modeling, forecasting, “what-if” Analysis & reporting

Senior management review results via Excel or Web

Data SourcesEnd Users

IMPLEMENTATION

CYCLE TIMES

REAL TIME UPDATES

DATA LOADS

QUERY – CALCS

Why IBM Cognos: “Speed King of the OLAP World”

Query Speed: #1 Driver of Project Success / Business Benefits

Performance Is Key

USER DRIVEN MODELS

BEYOND FINANCE

OPTIMAL MODELLING ENVIRONMENT

LIVE RESTRUCTURES

NO TECHNICAL TUNING REQUIREMENTS

Why IBM Cognos : THOUSANDS OF APPLICATIONS

Flexibility: Key to Non-Finance Performance Applications

Cognos Solutions Demonstration

Selected Customer References

GRIAsia Limited

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