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Business Intelligence with IBM Cognos Analytics

IBM Cognos Analytics: AI-based business intelligence for easy entry into cognitive computing. Intuitive functions improve insights, enable meaningful reports and visualizations. High-quality real-time data supports quick decisions on site or in the cloud.

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The business intelligence solution for successful business management

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson is a next-generation AI-based business intelligence solution that combines ease of use with high performance. The intuitive functions pf IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson help companies work their way into cognitive computing and change the way they work with data. You get better insight into your business processes and can display information more intuitively in meaningful reports, dashboards, and visualizations. By delivering the data at the right time and with reliable quality, business users and executives can make profitable decisions, understand them, and respond quickly to the increasing market dynamics—on-premise or in the cloud.

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Fast, reliable data preparation from various data sources and easy reporting

The reliable connection of a wide variety of data sources and database systems is crucial in order to be able to process and use relevant company information. The voice function allows data sources to be found quickly and validated and combined using automated modeling. The intuitive user interface of IBM Cognos Analytics does not require specialized reporting expertise. Individual dashboards can be created by the user-guided self-service function simply by dragging and dropping. Various templates and styles allow you to create professional, interactive reports with little configuration effort. This saves resources and time.

IBM Cognos Analytics shows where companies are today and helps them make predictions for tomorrow. Get real-time insights with the new Cognos Mobile app.

Key features of IBM Cognos Analytics

IBM Cognos Analytics works in agile fashion, and it is forward-looking and fast - the guarantee for successful business management.

Business Intelligence: Ready to use and accessible from anywhere

IBM Cognos Analytics is ready when users are. The solution offers a uniform experience, whether on the Web or on mobile devices. This allows information to be found quickly, analyzed, created, and shared.

Integration of artificial intelligence

The AI-based business intelligence solution detects patterns and correlations from the complex data. The AI assistant enables end users to create fully automated visualizations and dashboards.

Put data to work for you

Work with data should be easy and productive – not time-consuming. This cross-functional analysis tool enables seamless collaboration between users with different skills.

Simple self-service functionality

The intuitive interface of the business intelligence solution does not require any special know-how. This makes the IT department’s work easier, saves time, and ideas can be implemented directly by the department.

Fast, attractive reporting and visualization

Intuitive functionality enables companies to create meaningful, compelling graphics, infographics, dashboards, and high-content reports in minutes.

IBM Cognos Analytics as a basis for analysis for successful measures

A reliable, clean database provides the basis for a strong, meaningful analysis to make successful business decisions and measures.

Excellence in consulting and implementation

From design to implementation

Our IBM-certified valantic consultants provide our customers with reliable support with their expertise from the conception, implementation/upgrades to the application of IBM Cognos Analytics. We will answer all of your questions about data modeling, reporting, data analysis, visualization, and dashboarding. Comprehensive knowledge of data warehouse, OLAP, data integration and security expand our BA service portfolio.

As a long-standing IBM Gold Business Partner, we have already successfully implemented numerous projects for well-known customers.
Are you planning a migration / update of your Cognos BI environment? The BI life cycle management solutions from our partner Motio can help you with this.

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Success Stories

References and experience from more than 800 customer projects

Our customers are pioneers in the digital world: This is also reflected in the numerous enthusiastic customer opinions. Below is an excerpt of our success stories for IBM Business Analytics solutions.

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  • SAP
  • SAP SuccessFactors

Variosystems: A new era of recruiting

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  • SAP
  • SAP Analytics
  • SAP Analytics Cloud

Gerolsteiner boosts controlling with SAC

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  • SAP Cloud ERP

TQG secures its performance with SAP Cloud ERP

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  • Bloomreach
  • Pimcore

Digital transformation vgh

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Biogena

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Success Story: Verbio optimizes planning & analytics
  • IBM
  • IBM Cognos Analytics
  • IBM Planning Analytics (TM1)

VERBIO is running full speed ahead, optimizing planning & analysis

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  • Elasticsearch
  • RabbitMQ
  • Shopware

50% faster webshop for Cybertrading

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  • Spryker
  • Storyblok
  • Viamedici

WiBU creates central e-commerce touchpoint

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  • IBM
  • IBM Cloud Pak for data
  • IBM Planning Analytics (TM1)
  • IBM Watson Studio

A1 Telekom Austria Group Optimizes Financial Planning, Analytics, and Twelve-Month Forecasting

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  • Elasticsearch
  • Pimcore
  • Shopware

Website Relaunch with Shopware 6

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  • SAP
  • SAP Analytics
  • SAP Analytics Cloud

BOS optimizes Planning and Reporting with SAP SAC

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  • Shopware

Nevermined strengthens brand presence with new B2B Shop

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  • Contentserv/Centric PXM
  • Shopware

mandana shines with new online shop

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Adelboden-Lenk

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Alpbachtal

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  • OutSystems

US Health Group

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  • OutSystems

Micromain

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CSA GROUP

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Bri Security

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Zenioo

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YAK MAT Tracker

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Graz Tourismus

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  • SAP
  • SAP Analytics
  • SAP Analytics Cloud
  • SAP S/4HANA

Gira migrates to SAP S/4HANA and optimizes daily reporting

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  • Adobe Commerce
  • Magento

B2C e-commerce platform for mey

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Verbier

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  • Adobe Commerce
  • Magento

King in e-commerce

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  • Bloomreach
  • elastic.io
  • Salesforce

Krombacher establishes direct customer relationship

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  • Akeneo
  • Contentful
  • Frontastic
  • Spryker

Successful collaboration with mobilezone GmbH

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  • SAP
  • SAP Analytics
  • SAP Analytics Cloud
  • SAP S/4HANA

Burgis analyzes its sales thanks to comprehensive revenue reporting in SAP SAC

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  • Salesforce
  • Splunk

E-commerce excellence for PUMA

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  • SAP
  • SAP Services Cloud

Cloud-based ticketing system for AMC

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Tietje Voss
Director Operations & IT, CALIDA

”We chose valantic as an implementation partner because we were convinced by both their process consulting expertise and basic technical know-how in the IBM environment.“

Elke Stump
Head of the Controlling Division in the Corporate Management Division, AOK Niedersachsen

”With direct access to current data, we can clarify typical questions right away; previously, we first had to round up the required information, which was time-consuming. This has significantly improved control processes at the whole company.“

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Gregor Karmowski
Head of the Continuous Improvement Process Department, Mosca

”In valantic, we found a partner who understands our business and our daily requirements and proved to be absolutely reliable.“

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René Miribung
Speaker for Finance and Budget, Ministry of the German-speaking Community in Belgium

”valantic's concept won us over, as did the fact that they had extensive expertise from previous projects and had already proven to be a reliable, motivated partner. “

Our offerings: The IBM license check

The possibilities of IBM licensing are many and varied and each license model offers advantages and disadvantages as well as various license conditions. In our license check, we will help you analyze your requirements in detail and carry out a commercial extrapolation and risk assessment of your new licensing.

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    Joint review of current licensing

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    License roles check

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    Setting up of user roles

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    Development of an optimized licensing proposal

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    Proposal of license adjustments as part of optimization

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valantic Academy

Excellence in knowledge transfer

Our trainings will prepare you to use IBM Cognos Analytics so you can continue to enjoy all the benefits of this business intelligence solution.

We have extensive experience in this area. Get more information on our valantic Academy page and let our offerings inspire you.

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Training & Workshops

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IBM Cognos Analytics – Reporting Advanced

Reporting is designed for a lot more than just creating reports. It offers a broad set of capabilities for designing reports efficiently and interactively. Advanced users will learn to develop self-adjusting and interactive reports, use advanced options and techniques, and get a lot of helpful tricks and hints from our specialists.

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IBM Cognos Analytics – Reporting Fundamentals

Essential for standard reporting, popular for ad hoc analysis: IBM's Reporting proves to be a powerful tool: The possibilities seem endless and wildly complex at first glance. With this valantic training, users will master them in no time.

IBM Cognos Analytics – Reporting Fundamentals
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IBM Cognos Analytics – Reporting with dimensional data

Dimensional data sources such as OLAP data bases (cubes) and dimensional modelled relational data sources (DMR) offer a great number of additional possibilities. In Reporting they are handled a little differently than pure relational data. This training shows how to handle them and gives a deeper understanding of dimensional data, data types, MDX functions, and relative dates.

IBM Cognos Analytics – Reporting with dimensional data
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Thanks to its long-standing Gold partnership with IBM, which provides comprehensive support and advice to companies, valantic is a license professional: From product selection to license model selection to implementation, support, and training at the ISO-certified valantic Academy. valantic’s experts can use their expertise to help you answer precisely these questions.

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Your contact for our IBM license check as well as a non-binding consultation appointment.

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