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Software facilitates financial and regulatory reporting.
Jan 15 2008- Designed to support organizations that require reporting under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) guidelines, Cognos 8 Controller v8.2 Group Consolidation and Corporate Reporting (GCCR) Blueprint helps finance departments renew/improve close, consolidate, and report process through industry best-practices. Financial performance management solution provides financial consolidation foundation system to support additional regulatory and management reporting.

Software facilitates merchandise planning.
Jan 19 2007- Providing complete management framework, Cognos Strategic Merchandise Planning Blueprint helps chains improve top-down, bottom-up planning for merchandise sales, margin, and gross profit by division, channel, department, or category. It includes planning, metrics, and reporting to help retail managers and executives meet sales objectives and profitability goals through process that is fully synchronized with other parts of organization including finance, operations, and marketing.

Software helps banks improve customer profitability.
Nov 29 2006- Offered in Corporate and Retail Banking versions, Customer Segment Performance Blueprint enables managers to tap into customer data; create real intelligence on behavior, revenue streams, and profitability by customer or group of customers; then use insights to target, plan, track, and measure sales and marketing initiatives. Initiative planning capabilities help user choose most profitable products to promote within segment and identify most effective means of reaching customers.

Software helps optimize retail promotions.
Nov 13 2006- Strategic Promotions Planning Blueprint empowers managers and executives across retail chain to model multiple scenarios, then analyze and evaluate success of promotions. Program delivers integrated planning process between finance, marketing, and merchandising, ensuring all departments have visibility to promotions. Rapid re-forecasting empowers chains to adjust promotional mix and campaigns on-the-fly based on performance and consumer responses to date.

Software helps organizations manage workforce resources.
Nov 10 2006- Cognos Workforce Resource Management Blueprint provides web-based planning process to forecast workforce requirements based on customer demand across global scope of organization. Staffing managers of service-based industries can determine headcount requirements, set staffing effectiveness ratings by activity, streamline entry of employee shift details, and vary employee pay rates. Software automatically generates detailed financial implications of staffing schedule.

BI Solution brings decision-support info to mobile users.
Nov 1 2006- Designed to promote right-time decision making, Cognos 8 Go! Mobile has mobile-client interface that lets anyone use handheld device to read and interact with Cognos 8 BI reports and metric information. Business Intelligence (BI) solution includes Cognos 8 Go! Search for finding metrics/information and Cognos 8 Go! Office for viewing, interacting with, and refreshing Cognos 8 BI reports, analyses, and metrics within Microsoft® Excel®, PowerPoint®, and Word.

Software helps defense agencies fulfill planning requirements.
Oct 19 2006- Cognos POM Planning Blueprint helps agencies comply with Department of Defense Program Objective Memorandum (POM) requirements to deliver program plans, budgets, and forecasts that are in line with pre-defined departmental objectives. Software consists of targeted, pre-built data, process, and policy models, and allows budget owners to analyze trends and projections, collaborate with agency stakeholders, and drive accountability through embedded workflow functionality.

Software helps retailers optimize store development.
Jun 20 2006- Cognos Store Development Blueprint helps plan, manage, and measure financial impact of store development initiatives such as new store construction, remodels/refurbishments, and upgrades. Comprised of targeted, pre-built data, process, and policy models, retail performance solution lets chains define initiatives; develop financial plans; apply initiatives to regions, stores, or groups of stores; communicate initiatives to store managers; and measure return on investment.

Software manages clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies.
Jun 6 2006- Clinical Trial Forecasting and Sample Optimization Blueprints help pharmaceutical companies coordinate financial and operational plans to improve resource allocation decisions. Clinical Trial Forecasting helps users anticipate clinical trial resource requirements and accompanying expenses in order to comply with FDA requirements, while Sample Optimization enables pharmaceutical executives to develop and implement sample allocation plans that are in line with corporate revenue objectives.

Banking Software helps optimize branch profitability.
May 26 2006- Cognos Branch Performance Blueprint helps retail banks perform top-down and branch-up revenue and expense planning to ensure organization-wide alignment with strategic objectives. It extends planning process beyond finance department to branch network, enabling managers to drive profitability planning, analysis, and reporting at product and customer segment levels. Financial services performance solution delivers all data through Acorn System's Profit Analyzer.