IBM Unveils Ten New and Enhanced Industry Solutions Enabled by Cognos

IBM Unveils Ten New and Enhanced Industry Solutions Enabled by Cognos

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced ten industry solutions that unlock the business value of information for customers across key industries including banking, retail, healthcare, government, life sciences and manufacturing. A result of IBM’s recent acquisition of Cognos, the new Information on Demand offerings unite IBM’s SOA and industry expertise with the powerful business intelligence and performance management capabilities of Cognos.

By accelerating the pace at which information can be used, the new solutions help businesses tackle some of the toughest information-intensive challenges in their industry such as using information collected about customers to provide improved services based on personalized customer needs. The new offerings further IBM’s Information on Demand strategy, a cross-company effort designed to help IBM clients optimize their business processes and maximize performance across their enterprises, and illustrate IBM’s ability to rapidly and aggressively integrate Cognos as a strategic asset throughout its software, hardware and services businesses.

“The combination of IBM and Cognos is enabling us to deliver new business insights to clients via a comprehensive portfolio of industry solutions that tap into the most complete, open standards-based business intelligence and performance management platform,” said Ambuj Goyal, general manager, IBM Information Management. “We are quickly capitalizing on the Cognos acquisition through new offerings that help companies expand the value of their information for competitive advantage.”

The new and enhanced solutions include an update to the recently launched IBM Retail Integration Framework to support store operations and planning (P&L); a new municipal performance scorecard for government agencies; a new solution that optimizes sales and operations planning for manufacturing companies; a new promotional spending and compliance solution for pharmaceutical companies; enhancements to financial risk insight and risk-adjusted profitability solutions for banking; enhancements to the crime management and insight solution; enhancements to two cross-industry solutions for workforce analytics and financial planning; and a new analytics solution for healthcare providers that will be unveiled later this month.

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