IBM Business Analytics software is designed to deliver complete, insightful, and accurate information for decision makers to make more effective decisions. As part of this portfolio, IBM SPSS Predictive Analytics software specializes in predictive analytics, which organizations can rely on to predict future outcomes based on patterns found in historical data. State and Local Government, Multi-National Corporations of all sizes can benefit from the IBM SPSS technology to provide insight into current performance. As well as leveraging the predictive capabilities to be better prepared for what is around the corner. Business Intelligence can help monitor current and past performance, Predictive Analytics can answer why the business is performing in a certain manner and how it can be improved in the future.

Organizations that incorporate IBM SPSS solutions into their daily operations are able to predict with a high level of certainty the result of options before they even make the decision. It can ensure that the right decisions are made, every time, at the appropriate point of customer interaction. For example, multiple cities around the United States are using predictive analytics to prevent crime by stationing police in high crime areas at historically problematic times to act as a deterrent to crime. Predictive Analytics can help organizations to gain a better understanding of various types of business processes and ultimately have a major impact on decisions that have a positive impact on company’s profitability.

IBM SPSS Data Collection

IBM SPSS Data Collection is a comprehensive survey management solution that empowers organizations to capture customer’s feedback from multiple channels including online, phone, and in-person. It offers the capability to manage the entire survey process from design and data collection through analysis of the end results. By applying real-time logic and data validation, organizations can make decisions faster and react to customer demands more effectively.

IBM SPSS Statistics

IBM SPSS Statistics is widely used by professionals in commercial, governmental agencies, and academic organizations worldwide. It is used to solve complex business problems, predict patterns to prevent crime, and anticipate demand based upon seasonal weather patterns.

The IBM SPSS Statistics suite of tools includes a set of components for data entry, data management, data preparation/transformation, statistical analysis, analytics procedures and reporting functions. It can take data from almost any type of file and use it to generate tabular reports, plots of distributions and trends, descriptive statistics, and complex statistics models. Customers are using IBM SPSS Statistics to test and validate assumptions faster, discover information more efficiently, and predict with a high degree of certainty what the most likely outcome will be.

IBM SPSS Modeler

Include information from unstructured data such as web activity, blog content, customer feedback, emails, and articles, along with structured numerical data, to create the most accurate predictive models possible. Advanced natural language processing techniques enable users to extract key concepts, sentiments, and relationships from unstructured data and convert them to a structured format for predictive modeling.

TM1 Enterprise Planning Contributor is the primary licenses end users of TM1 utilize. It allows for end users to have read and write access to the TM1 models. Under the TM1 Contributor licensing, End users have the following access rights:
  •Modify & review workflow status through Planning Manager or TM1 Contributor
  •Perform read/write data operations [...]

IBM Cognos TM1 10 includes a component called the Performance Modeler. It’s a great step in the right direction for IBM to simplify the model building process in TM1. It’s a wizard based component that will allow less technical people to manage and maintain models. However, if you are an existing IBM [...]

New Cognos Users
You can purchase and download Cognos Insight directly from the IBM Software Online Catalog. The Cognos Insight Standard Edition provides the full set of capabilities including:
   · Importing from a variety of sources including spreadsheets, comma separated value files (.CSV) and corporate databases using the ODBC standard interface
   · Share and open Insight files [...]

IBM Cognos has two offerings to organizations looking for a complete Performance Management solution. One is IBM Cognos Enterprise Solutions and the other is Cognos Express. If you are looking for the power IBM offers, you may have some questions about what the differences in the two offerings are and how they compare. [...]

Cognos Insight provides all the tools you need to solve individual or team challenges quickly and easily, right from your desktop:
  •Import and merge your corporate enterprise data with personal local data directly in your   workspace.
  •Slice, dice and drill down through data quickly, without scripting.
  •Create compelling charts and grids for a multi-dimensional view of your data.
  •Perform [...]

Microsoft has announced that they will no longer be supporting its FRx 6.7 product in 2012. They are replacing FRx with Management Reporter. Microsoft’s official FRx replacement is Management Reporter, and although it’s a promising technology and is definitely next generation. It only reports on GL data at the moment as well as lacking some key FRx features, and most importantly, it’s not available for Microsoft competitors. FRx was much more “feature” rich and functional than Management Reporter, making it preferred for the accounting staff and distribution of financial reports.

Most Business Intelligence vendors have a number of distribution channels. They sell direct, thru Value Added Resellers (VARs), and thru Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). OEM is a misleading term for a company that has a special relationship with the Business Intelligence Vendor. OEMs are manufacturers of hardware or software who resell another company’s product under their own name and branding.

IBM Cognos Insight. What is it? What is all the Hype about? On March 7th, IBM Cognos will release a revolutionary product that will allow IBM Cognos BI Consumers the ability to leverage the IBM stack by allowing them to create TM1 models at no additional cost. If you have not heard of IBM Cognos TM1, it is a 64 bit In-Memory OLAP technology that links finance with operations to deliver new Insight into your data.

With the continuous tightening of the credit markets, Cash Flow is in the spot light at almost every organization. The first step in getting Cash Flow under control is to educate your organization on the importance of Cash Flow and how it affects the organization. If you have an issue with Cash Flow, you need to closely monitor the variables that affect it. The variables in an increase for Cash Flow include: