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Business Analytics




Traditional BI infused with performance
management and personal analytics:
Balancing user freedom with IT control
IBM Cognos Enterprise
Traditional BI infused with performance management and personal analytics: Balancing user freedom with IT control




                                                                                                Executive summary
Contents                                                                                        Top performing organizations are analytics-driven. They
2		 Executive summary                                                                           use business intelligence (BI), performance and strategy
                                                                                                management, statistical analysis, modeling and predictive
3		 The search for analytic freedom and control
                                                                                                and advanced analytics to guide their actions, large and small
3		 Making better, smarter decisions
                                                                                                and in all corners of their businesses. They not only know
6		 Arming every user with what they need
                                                                                                the answers to how they are doing and why, but they also
11	 Supporting where and how users work                                                         know what to do next to stay ahead of the competition. Their
13	 Meeting the needs of both the business and IT                                               decisions are better and smarter.
14	Conclusion
                                                                                                A 2010 joint study by MIT Sloan and sponsored by IBM
                                                                                                indicates that more organizations want to invest in business
                                                                                                analytics solutions to become analytics-driven. However,
                                                                                                many feel constrained by traditional business intelligence
                                                                                                (reporting, analysis, dashboards and scorecards) investments
                                                                                                that have been made or integrated haphazardly, with little
                                                                                                thought to how the business as a whole might benefit from
                                                                                                the data or insight they provide. For the best business
                                                                                                outcomes, companies need an agile BI solution infused with
                                                                                                personal analytics capabilities and integrated with planning
                                                                                                and forecasting, analysis, profitability modeling and
                                                                                                performance reporting. Companies also need a solution
                                                                                                that is modular, integrated, scalable and open so their IT
                                                                                                organizations are not hampered with excessive implementation,
                                                                                                deployment, management and maintenance tasks.




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IBM is redefining BI with an enterprise solution that brings     Centralized BI provides dashboards and reports that tip
reporting, analysis, modeling, planning and collaboration        the balance toward IT control, offering a certain amount
together for better decision-making cycles and to help remove    of personalization and interactivity but in a managed
the barriers to being analytics-driven.1 This paper describes    environment and with a managed dataset. Decentralized
how IBM is infusing traditional BI with personal analytics and   data discovery tips the balance the other way toward freedom
performance management to balance user freedom and IT            of analysis with personal data sets; however, this comes at
control. It introduces IBM® Cognos® Enterprise, the solution     the price of generating separate and often incompatible
that can help your organization take advantage of this new       data and getting answers that might not be complete.
kind of BI — one where the sky’s the limit.
                                                                 IBM has worked with organizations in the past that like
                                                                 the idea of analytic freedom but also want control. These
                                                                 organizations often feel trapped because they believe that
IBM is redefining BI with an enterprise                          choosing one means giving up the other. The good news is
solution that brings reporting, analysis,                        that this choice is no longer necessary. IBM now has a solution
modeling, planning and collaboration                             designed to provide both analytic freedom and management
                                                                 control so your company can make better, smarter decisions
together for better decision-making cycles                       without being bound to one type of solution.
and to help remove the barriers to being
analytics driven.                                                Making better, smarter decisions
                                                                 A recent IBM study shows that organizations that use analytics
                                                                 to determine why and what they need to be doing next are
                                                                 twice as likely to outperform their industry peers.2 These
The search for analytic freedom
                                                                 organizations have infused their business intelligence with
and IT control                                                   data exploration, trend and statistical analysis, what-if
Businesses have been searching for some time for the best
                                                                 analysis and predictive analytics to become analytics-driven
solutions for answering the question “How are we doing?”
                                                                 organizations. They have become top performers because
In the 1980s, businesses often used different types of
                                                                 they are relying on analytics for their decisions.
proprietary reporting in each line of business, which gave
way in the 1990s to centrally managed report creation and
                                                                 These top performers operate their businesses differently
distribution. In the mid-2000s, discovery tools emerged and
                                                                 from their peers. They use analytics for all types of decisions,
businesses went back and forth between centralized and
                                                                 large and small. Analytics guides their goals and objectives for
decentralized solutions.
                                                                 the future; insight is the basis for their daily operations and
                                                                 rigorous analysis guides their decisions. The correlation
                                                                 between performance and analytics-driven management has
                                                                 important implications for organizations who want to make
                                                                 better use of their data.




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                                                                                                A critical barrier to becoming analytics-driven is how
                                                                                                organizations have approached the adoption of business
                                                                                                intelligence and analytics technology, which returns to
                                                                                                the centralized or decentralized debate. Different parts or
                                                                                                divisions of an organization might be using different business
                                                                                                intelligence and analytics solutions or multiple tools that
Smith and Associates reacts faster to emerging                                                  satisfy different needs might have been shoe-horned together
opportunities with Cognos Enterprise                                                            in an attempt at integration. In some cases, departments have
                                                                                                purchased their own desktop tools because IT couldn’t satisfy
Smith and Associates is a world-leading distributor of                                          user needs fast enough. The result is user frustration because:
electronic components. The company regularly deals with
complex electronics supply chains. Therefore, Smith and                                         •	   They are faced with multiple interfaces and tools.
Associates must source the right electronic components at                                       •	   They must wait for IT to deliver changes and enhancements.
the right price and meet customers’ tight manufacturing                                         •	   They cannot easily share information with key stakeholders.
schedules. The company uses Cognos Enterprise to view                                           •	   They cannot reach all the relevant facts they need.
and assess inventory levels, pricing and the supply chain,
so their traders can source, purchase and deliver the                                           Analytics-driven business intelligence served up the way it’s
components that customers need. Analytics have also been                                        needed helps all users assess current facts and past history,
embedded into the traders’ existing systems, providing                                          determine what might happen based on trends and adjust
seamless access to reports even while the traders are on the                                    as the marketplace changes to gain and retain competitive
phone to customers. As a result, traders and trade managers                                     advantage. Integrate it with performance management
have a clearer understanding of important factors, such as
                                                                                                solutions and everything is there to help your organization
cost of inventory, helping them make better sales decisions
                                                                                                become top performing and analytics driven. From the
while maintaining profit margins. The company says that
many reporting processes are twice as fast as they used
                                                                                                desktop, mobile and from the web, users in your organization
to be, and the company expects even faster performance                                          can start almost anywhere — with a solution for workgroups,
when they start using a Cognos enhanced query process.                                          for example — and add more functionality, such as statistical
                                                                                                analysis, continuous forecasting or real-time monitoring — as
                                                                                                you need it. IBM now offers Cognos Enterprise, a solution
                                                                                                that provides all this and more.




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                                                                    A powerful and flexible solution that includes BI capabilities
                                                                    infused with personal analytics and performance management
                                                                    from a company with business analytics expertise, Cognos
                                                                    Enterprise can help everyone in your company base decisions
                                                                    on facts. Cognos Enterprise is designed to scale from hundreds
                                                                    to thousands of users, and it can be accessed from wherever in
                                                                    your company it is needed and from smart phones, tablets and
                                                                    notebook computers. Business users can quickly find historical
One big, happy family                                               facts, real-time information and predictive models (Figure 1)
                                                                    that help drive their decisions. Business analysts can develop
The IBM Cognos 10 family helps put analytics into the hands
of everyone to drive better business outcomes. Right-sized
                                                                    and share models to test scenarios. Finance and other users
and integrated to meet the needs of your organization, the          have the flexibility and information to create and adapt plans,
members of the Cognos 10 family include:                            budgets and forecasts.

•	   Cognos Insight—for individuals who want freedom and
     flexibility of desktop analytics
•	   Cognos Express—for workgroups, departments or midsize
     businesses who need to be up and running fast with a
     solution that is easy to install and manage
•	   Cognos Enterprise—for organizations who need to meet
     strategic objectives spanning multiple functions, levels and
     business units

Whether you want to deploy to a couple of desktops or to
your entire enterprise, IBM has the solution for you. You can
even address your most pressing needs now and grow your
solution over time. With the Cognos 10 family, you get the
flexibility and ease of use that the business demands while
providing IT with integrated, easy-to-manage software that
seamlessly grows with evolving needs.

                                                                        Figure 1: Historical facts, real-time data and predictive models in one
                                                                        unified workspace.




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                                                                                                In short, Cognos Enterprise is designed to arm every user with
                                                                                                what they need to act, support the way users want to work and
                                                                                                meet the needs of both the business and IT.

                                                                                                Arming every user with what they need
                                                                                                Users need quick access to facts and the flexibility to manage
                                                                                                information so they can make informed decisions. With
                                                                                                Cognos Enterprise, business users in your organization can:
OMERS streamlines reporting, external
audits and more                                                                                 •	   Assemble relevant information to understand the business.
                                                                                                •	   Analyze information to make fact-based recommendations.
With more than $53,000,000,0000 in net assets in 2010,
                                                                                                •	   Share and collaborate in analytics processes to achieve
OMERS is one of Canada’s leading pension funds. It
administers a diversified global portfolio of stocks and                                             alignment.
bonds, along with real estate, infrastructure and private                                       •	   Act on findings to drive better business outcomes.
equity investments that consistently yield superior returns,
ultimately funding almost 70 percent of the plan over the                                       And, IT can deliver a system that helps users outperform with
long-term. Building on previous success with IBM Business                                       confidence knowing they have complete understanding of their
Analytics software, OMERS chose to deploy Cognos                                                business.
Enterprise for financial reporting, planning and forecasting,
uniting 41 sets of books and 9 charts of accounts into a                                        Assembling relevant information
single entity, eliminating manual reconciliations and saving                                    Assembling relevant information involves three main activities:
several days per quarter. Financial reports are generated
faster and financial planning processes are now automated,                                      •	   Quickly and easily finding the most relevant content with
which eliminates the need to hire external consultants,                                              integrated search (Figure 2) and navigation
saving up to $15,000 a year. In addition, the solution
                                                                                                •	   Monitoring the pulse of the business in a single workspace
has streamlined an allocation process that previously
                                                                                                     that shows historical information alongside real-time updates,
took 1.5 hours of pure system processing time for each
iteration, and it can now be executed in minutes, saving
                                                                                                     plans and predictive results
approximately 30 hours annually.                                                                •	   Easily exploring and personalizing information by formatting
                                                                                                     content and adding visualizations and calculations to gain
                                                                                                     richer insight




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                                                                How does it work? With integrated search, users can navigate
                                                                content to find the right information. They can interact with
                                                                that information in an interface designed to help them explore,
                                                                personalize and format data for a better understanding of what
                                                                is going on in the business. Users see can see history, look at
                                                                current numbers, view plans and analyze predictive results. For
                                                                example, a customer service representative can be confident she
                                                                has information from every time period needed to make the
                                                                right decision for that specific situation, because she can view:

                                                                •	   Historic call and customer satisfaction data
                                                                •	   The number of calls currently coming in
                                                                •	   Actual and plan information
                                                                •	   Future predictions generated by predictive analysis

Figure 2: Integrated search.                                    Analyzing information
                                                                Analyzing information in an analytics-driven organization
                                                                includes:

Cognos Enterprise is designed to provide what users
                                                                •	   Understanding the underlying reasons for an event or
need for each of these activities. To help with information
                                                                     action with lightning-fast analysis of all critical business data
collection, drag-and-drop features can be used to create
                                                                •	   Uncovering relationships in data that will give you a wider
unique perspectives or to personalize content with the user’s
                                                                     context
own perspective. It is also possible to incorporate external
                                                                •	   Developing what-if scenarios on the fly to validate
workgroup or personal data with corporate sources. The
                                                                     assumptions and make strong and informed recommendations
interactive workspace makes it easier to follow the natural
                                                                •	   Harnessing predictive results to better understand what
path from viewing to light exploration and on to deeper
                                                                     might happen
analysis. Users can uncover insights by following their own
                                                                •	   Driving decisions by creating and sharing statistical evidence
trains of thought, add visualizations to gain richer insight
                                                                     to validate information
and create new ways to present valuable information.




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Cognos Enterprise provides users with an extensive set
of analysis capabilities so they can anticipate and shape
outcomes with fact-based recommendations. It includes tools
designed to drill into both corporate and personal business
data. Users are able to create and share statistical evidence
to compare, for example, the correlation between the demand
for a product and its price, which then can be used to make
recommendations for future promotions. Or they can create
scenarios as needed to visualize a profitability problem in
the context of the current quarter’s revenues. A customer
service manager might wish to see the profitability of
rendering a new service to customers and also view the
effect of a discount for that service.

Cognos Enterprise users are no longer constrained to
historical information and validating what has happened.                                        Figure 3: Workspace personalized for defects.
Cognos Enterprise helps users uncover why something
happened and then helps them decide what the next best
action should be. What-if analysis capabilities make it possible                                You use that information to create a report that focuses
to create scenarios that help users anticipate risk and validate                                on the resources and the defects, adding a scatter plot
their assumptions. Cognos Enterprise can also help them                                         (Figure 4) to demonstrate that there is a correlation between
examine predictive results to better understand what might                                      resources and defects. Meanwhile, a coworker uses his
happen in the future.                                                                           personal desktop solution to do research on competitors.
                                                                                                He pulls together his analysis and creates a report on the
To understand how it all works, imagine that you oversee                                        desktop that is published and incorporated directly into
product quality for a company, and you have noticed that                                        the Cognos Enterprise environment.
current revenue projections are not looking good and future
projections are also in the red. This is affecting your company’s
ability to sell products and your competitors are gaining
market share. In your workspace, which has been personalized
for detecting defects (Figure 3), you have the current resource
plan and a list report showing key defect metrics.




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                                                                        Achieving alignment
                                                                        It can be difficult to achieve the critical alignment of goals
                                                                        and objectives needed for top performance, especially in large
                                                                        enterprises that are spread out around the globe. Cognos
                                                                        Enterprise can help with capabilities designed for:

                                                                        •	   Communicating organizational strategy so all users can
                                                                             understand and agree on key activities and projects
                                                                        •	   Sharing insights by adding commentary to dashboards,
                                                                             reports and individual cells (Figure 5)
                                                                        •	   Engaging the right people at the right time to exchange
                                                                             ideas and accelerate alignment
                                                                        •	   Engaging in an in-depth collaborative discussion based
                                                                             on enterprise information

Figure 4: A scatter plot demonstrating correlations between resources
and defects.


You can take the coworker’s analysis, add it to your defects
workspace and make some adjustments to show how
much your competitors are investing in R&D because it
is an important data point. You now need to make some
recommendations for reducing the defect rate, which should
improve quality and help drive sales, so you work on a scenario
that shows how increasing the R&D resources for a specific
project affects the defects. You can change information
and recalculate revised defect projections until you see the
improvement you need. You make a quick comment and
share your insight with the team. You have now used Cognos
Enterprise to create fact-based recommendations that will
help your company anticipate and shape better outcomes.                 Figure 5: Adding commentary to dashboards and reports.




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With Cognos Enterprise, users can pool their personal
data with other users without affecting enterprise data
sources. With robust personal analytics in the mix, business
users can also validate their planning assumptions, providing
a fact-based approach to business plans. Before forecasting
(or re-forecasting), for example, a planner can share new
discoveries and prototype plans with the core team, who, in
turn, can explore performance gaps at various levels of detail.

Users can also attach greater business context to the
information itself by capturing annotations down to the
cell level, including definitions of terms, data lineage and
comments explaining how and why decisions were made.
With scorecards and strategy management capabilities,
it is possible to communicate organizational strategy so all
stakeholders can understand and align with key activities                                        Figure 6: Initiate an activity in your workspace.
and projects.

Built-in collaboration capabilities accelerate alignment by                                     Acting on findings
engaging the right people at the right time to exchange ideas                                   After users have assembled data, analyzed information and
and knowledge. Dashboard activities help everyone engage                                        achieved alignment of strategy, they need to be able to act.
in collaborative discussions based on BI content. With these                                    The performance management capabilities of Cognos
collaboration capabilities, users can:                                                          Enterprise, such as assessment, modeling and workflow, and
                                                                                                performance reporting capabilities, can help your business:
•	   Initiate activities (Figure 6).
•	   Engage others with expertise.                                                              •	   Rapidly create and share dynamic, adaptable plans with
•	   Post messages, files and links.                                                                 shared business rules, data and metadata.
•	   Discuss or review the opinions of others so everyone                                       •	   Empower more users to model plans with guided modeling,
     can work together toward a common goal.                                                         which can help reduce planning time.
                                                                                                •	   Assign tasks to achieve greater levels of commitment to
                                                                                                     and accountability for plans.
                                                                                                •	   Track performance and compare it with strategic objectives
                                                                                                     to optimize business outcomes.




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Users in sales, marketing or other functions can analyze          Supporting where and how users work
planning results, explore alternative scenarios and share         Business users need to make critical decisions regardless of
plans in dashboards or reports. In addition, they can prompt      their roles. Cognos Enterprise is designed to make BI,
other team members for comments and validation.                   performance management and analytics available to users
                                                                  where and how they work:
Adaptable planning and forecasting capabilities can enable
consistent decision-making. Using a flexible, expressive          •	   Over the web
modeling environment that includes guided steps for building      •	   On mobile devices
dimensions, cubes, data links and processes, business analysts    •	   In a personalized, individual workspace
can quickly develop models and link them to other models to       •	   In process
form a cohesive set of enterprise plans that can accommodate
current practices such as driver-based planning, profitability    Web
analysis or rolling forecasting.                                  With Cognos Enterprise, users work in a web-based interface
                                                                  that is unified so they can view historical data alongside
With the same interface, analysts can then deploy the             current data and predict outcomes with advanced analytics.
models to workgroups or users throughout the enterprise           Users can move from viewing information to working with
for contribution, with planning types, such as hierarchical       data or combining BI content with external web and application
or non-hierarchical, and interfaces that are adaptable to the     data sources and systems. In addition, the web interface can
preferences of your business. Workflow capabilities help you      connect the right people to share insight, gather perspectives
structure and automate analytic processes to drive greater        and opinions and understand how decisions were made and
speed, accuracy and increased participation and accountability    who made them. As a result, everyone in your company can
in performance planning and forecasting.                          easily interact, share information, plan, model and conduct
                                                                  comprehensive analytics without having to use special
Cognos Enterprise is also designed to provide a planning          programming or get IT involved.
environment with many report formatting options. Planners
and managers can view and share template-based or ad hoc
reports, from those with complex dimensions, such as balance
sheet or cash flow, to alternate scenarios for forecasts to
financial intelligence such as the result of a product
profitability analysis.




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Mobile
Many BI users are on the road frequently, and they expect
to be able to content on a wide range of mobile devices,
including their personal smart phones and tablets. Cognos
Enterprise includes mobile solutions that are designed to
provide the same content regardless of location. Users can
also easily interact with trusted information to make decisions
when offline or get focused information at their fingertips
with location-aware reports. These reports zero in on where
a user is currently and provide information related to clients
and prospects that are in that area. In addition, users can also
be assured that the information they receive on their mobile
devices is no different from the information they receive on
their computers in the office.

Desktop
                                                                                                Figure 7: Publish personal work as a shared application.
Cognos Enterprise also offers users a personal analytics
solution that enables them to work independently on their
desktops. They can explore, understand, share and take action.                                  In process
They can drag and drop imported data, create data from                                          With Cognos Enterprise, it is not necessary to switch
scratch and enrich data without complex scripting. They can                                     from other applications when you need BI, performance
create custom applications, dashboards and what-if scenario                                     management or analytics. Instead, it is designed to integrate
models for analysis. They can control presentation with                                         analytics with existing applications and business workflows.
visualization capabilities and they can publish their personal                                  You can embed information assets into everyday applications,
work as a shared application to collaborate and take action                                     portals and business processes so users have greater access to
(Figure 7). Because they are connected to your enterprise,                                      all sources of relevant information. Managed workflow helps
they can share their content and use the content of others.                                     connect all actions and decisions.




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Meeting the needs of both the business                           Often, organizations install and adopt BI capabilities that are
and IT                                                           not easily integrated with other capabilities or with other
Cognos Enterprise is designed to meet the needs of both          applications and systems, such as ERP and data warehousing.
the business and your IT organization with:                      Cognos Enterprise is designed to integrate with other
•	 A system that grows and adapts with the business
                                                                 capabilities, applications, data warehouses, information
•	 Complete and consistent access to all information
                                                                 infrastructure and enterprise systems. In addition, this
•	 Optimized performance for rapid information delivery
                                                                 integration is optimized for lightning-fast performance,
•	 Proactive management with a complete view of system
                                                                 scalability and easier governance.
   activity
                                                                 Cognos Enterprise is open with broad hardware and device
Growing and adapting with the business                           support so that companies can deploy it on their current
The best solutions are those that can grow and adapt as your     servers, tablets, smart phones, workstations and more.
business needs change. For that reason, Cognos Enterprise        There are also different deployment options: you can install
is modular, integrated and open so that IT organizations are     them in your data center or in a private cloud or opt for
not hampered with excessive implementation, deployment,          hosted services.
management and maintenance tasks.
                                                                 Gaining complete and consistent access to information
Because Cognos Enterprise is modular, IT can implement           Complete and consistent access to information is important
new capabilities to address specific challenges. For             to both IT and the business. Cognos Enterprise is designed
example, your IT organization can start by implementing          to provide open data access to all data sources regardless of
capabilities such as dashboards, mobile and key reports and      where the data is stored. As a result, it is possible to use most
add functionality such as collaboration or what-if modeling      combinations of data and evolve them over time with minimal
later. As your organization grows and requirements change,       effects on users.
nothing is left behind because it is easy to add capabilities
and there is no need to change products or to rip and replace    Cognos Enterprise also helps you implement flexible data
what is already there.                                           sourcing strategies so that data sources can be combined and
                                                                 real-time information integrated into workspaces, providing
                                                                 users with a more holistic view of overall business performance.
                                                                 The business owns and manages a common sanctioned source
                                                                 for all dimensions and a dictionary of business terms to provide
                                                                 clarity and understanding.




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As a result, business users know where information comes                                        IT can validate content from multiple environments in a
from and are confident that it is consistent and complete.                                      single interface, which can streamline upgrade processes
                                                                                                and increase IT efficiency. Multi-version coexistence support
Achieving optimized performance for rapid                                                       eases upgrade and roll out. IT can also effectively use and
information delivery                                                                            enhance existing security standards and restrict access to data
Cognos Enterprise is designed to optimize the performance                                       according to business requirements, while at the same time
and on-demand response time of multidimensional data.                                           reducing barriers to user adoption with the option to simplify
Cognos Enterprise uses a 64-bit in-memory analytics engine                                      the login process.	
designed to analyze complex or large data sets for on-demand
planning, analysis, profitability analysis and management
                                                                                                Conclusion
reporting. In addition, aggregate operations can speed up
                                                                                                When you put all the capabilities and options together, it is
computing time, and optimized caching and flexible refresh
                                                                                                easy to see why Cognos Enterprise can be described as both
management enable the reuse of views that users repeatedly
                                                                                                simple and powerful.
access. Cognos Enterprise is also designed to scale to support
enterprise-level planning and analytics.
                                                                                                It is simple because you can start just about anywhere with
                                                                                                any BI or performance management capability and add
Confidently deploying and proactively managing
                                                                                                capabilities as you go. Users are not overwhelmed with a
Cognos Enterprise is designed for confident deployment
                                                                                                massive system of applications that they must navigate to get
and proactive management. A complete view of system
                                                                                                to the capabilities they need.
activity enables administrators to take action before a
problem affects business, which can help meet and exceed
                                                                                                It is powerful because it blurs the distinctions between BI,
SLAs. It is fault-tolerant with self-aware peer-to-peer services
                                                                                                business analytics and performance management and exploits
and automatic load balancing to help minimize risk for
                                                                                                the capabilities of all three. As a result, it can support all
mission-critical deployments. It is also designed to effectively
                                                                                                your business decisions, arm your users with what they need,
manage through change to lessen the effect on both IT and
                                                                                                make BI and analytics capabilities available where and how
the business by helping IT assess the effect of change and
                                                                                                users need them and provide for the needs of both the business
address business requirements quickly (for example, refresh
                                                                                                and IT.
pack, data source updates).




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IBM has redefined and reinvented BI by infusing it with
performance management and business analytics to help
your organization become analytics driven. With Cognos
Enterprise, your organization can use BI, performance
management and personal analytics to guide actions in all
corners of the business. It can help you find the answers to
how you are doing and why, and what to do next to stay ahead
of the competition. And the result? Better, smarter decisions
for the best business outcomes now and in the future.

About Business Analytics
IBM Business Analytics software delivers actionable insights
decision-makers need to achieve better business performance.
IBM offers a comprehensive, unified portfolio of business
intelligence, predictive and advanced analytics, financial
performance and strategy management, governance, risk
and compliance and analytic applications.

With IBM software, companies can spot trends, patterns
and anomalies, compare “what if” scenarios, predict potential
threats and opportunities, identify and manage key business
risks and plan, budget and forecast resources. With these
deep analytic capabilities our customers around the world can
better understand, anticipate and shape business outcomes.

For more information
For further information, visit ibm.com/business-analytics.

Request a call
To request a call or to ask a question, go to ibm.com/
business-analytics/contactus. An IBM representative
will respond to your inquiry within two business days.




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  • 1. IBM Software Cognos Business Intelligence and Performance Management Business Analytics Traditional BI infused with performance management and personal analytics: Balancing user freedom with IT control IBM Cognos Enterprise
  • 2. Traditional BI infused with performance management and personal analytics: Balancing user freedom with IT control Executive summary Contents Top performing organizations are analytics-driven. They 2 Executive summary use business intelligence (BI), performance and strategy management, statistical analysis, modeling and predictive 3 The search for analytic freedom and control and advanced analytics to guide their actions, large and small 3 Making better, smarter decisions and in all corners of their businesses. They not only know 6 Arming every user with what they need the answers to how they are doing and why, but they also 11 Supporting where and how users work know what to do next to stay ahead of the competition. Their 13 Meeting the needs of both the business and IT decisions are better and smarter. 14 Conclusion A 2010 joint study by MIT Sloan and sponsored by IBM indicates that more organizations want to invest in business analytics solutions to become analytics-driven. However, many feel constrained by traditional business intelligence (reporting, analysis, dashboards and scorecards) investments that have been made or integrated haphazardly, with little thought to how the business as a whole might benefit from the data or insight they provide. For the best business outcomes, companies need an agile BI solution infused with personal analytics capabilities and integrated with planning and forecasting, analysis, profitability modeling and performance reporting. Companies also need a solution that is modular, integrated, scalable and open so their IT organizations are not hampered with excessive implementation, deployment, management and maintenance tasks. 2
  • 3. Business Analytics IBM is redefining BI with an enterprise solution that brings Centralized BI provides dashboards and reports that tip reporting, analysis, modeling, planning and collaboration the balance toward IT control, offering a certain amount together for better decision-making cycles and to help remove of personalization and interactivity but in a managed the barriers to being analytics-driven.1 This paper describes environment and with a managed dataset. Decentralized how IBM is infusing traditional BI with personal analytics and data discovery tips the balance the other way toward freedom performance management to balance user freedom and IT of analysis with personal data sets; however, this comes at control. It introduces IBM® Cognos® Enterprise, the solution the price of generating separate and often incompatible that can help your organization take advantage of this new data and getting answers that might not be complete. kind of BI — one where the sky’s the limit. IBM has worked with organizations in the past that like the idea of analytic freedom but also want control. These organizations often feel trapped because they believe that IBM is redefining BI with an enterprise choosing one means giving up the other. The good news is solution that brings reporting, analysis, that this choice is no longer necessary. IBM now has a solution modeling, planning and collaboration designed to provide both analytic freedom and management control so your company can make better, smarter decisions together for better decision-making cycles without being bound to one type of solution. and to help remove the barriers to being analytics driven. Making better, smarter decisions A recent IBM study shows that organizations that use analytics to determine why and what they need to be doing next are twice as likely to outperform their industry peers.2 These The search for analytic freedom organizations have infused their business intelligence with and IT control data exploration, trend and statistical analysis, what-if Businesses have been searching for some time for the best analysis and predictive analytics to become analytics-driven solutions for answering the question “How are we doing?” organizations. They have become top performers because In the 1980s, businesses often used different types of they are relying on analytics for their decisions. proprietary reporting in each line of business, which gave way in the 1990s to centrally managed report creation and These top performers operate their businesses differently distribution. In the mid-2000s, discovery tools emerged and from their peers. They use analytics for all types of decisions, businesses went back and forth between centralized and large and small. Analytics guides their goals and objectives for decentralized solutions. the future; insight is the basis for their daily operations and rigorous analysis guides their decisions. The correlation between performance and analytics-driven management has important implications for organizations who want to make better use of their data. 3
  • 4. Traditional BI infused with performance management and personal analytics: Balancing user freedom with IT control A critical barrier to becoming analytics-driven is how organizations have approached the adoption of business intelligence and analytics technology, which returns to the centralized or decentralized debate. Different parts or divisions of an organization might be using different business intelligence and analytics solutions or multiple tools that Smith and Associates reacts faster to emerging satisfy different needs might have been shoe-horned together opportunities with Cognos Enterprise in an attempt at integration. In some cases, departments have purchased their own desktop tools because IT couldn’t satisfy Smith and Associates is a world-leading distributor of user needs fast enough. The result is user frustration because: electronic components. The company regularly deals with complex electronics supply chains. Therefore, Smith and • They are faced with multiple interfaces and tools. Associates must source the right electronic components at • They must wait for IT to deliver changes and enhancements. the right price and meet customers’ tight manufacturing • They cannot easily share information with key stakeholders. schedules. The company uses Cognos Enterprise to view • They cannot reach all the relevant facts they need. and assess inventory levels, pricing and the supply chain, so their traders can source, purchase and deliver the Analytics-driven business intelligence served up the way it’s components that customers need. Analytics have also been needed helps all users assess current facts and past history, embedded into the traders’ existing systems, providing determine what might happen based on trends and adjust seamless access to reports even while the traders are on the as the marketplace changes to gain and retain competitive phone to customers. As a result, traders and trade managers advantage. Integrate it with performance management have a clearer understanding of important factors, such as solutions and everything is there to help your organization cost of inventory, helping them make better sales decisions become top performing and analytics driven. From the while maintaining profit margins. The company says that many reporting processes are twice as fast as they used desktop, mobile and from the web, users in your organization to be, and the company expects even faster performance can start almost anywhere — with a solution for workgroups, when they start using a Cognos enhanced query process. for example — and add more functionality, such as statistical analysis, continuous forecasting or real-time monitoring — as you need it. IBM now offers Cognos Enterprise, a solution that provides all this and more. 4
  • 5. Business Analytics A powerful and flexible solution that includes BI capabilities infused with personal analytics and performance management from a company with business analytics expertise, Cognos Enterprise can help everyone in your company base decisions on facts. Cognos Enterprise is designed to scale from hundreds to thousands of users, and it can be accessed from wherever in your company it is needed and from smart phones, tablets and notebook computers. Business users can quickly find historical One big, happy family facts, real-time information and predictive models (Figure 1) that help drive their decisions. Business analysts can develop The IBM Cognos 10 family helps put analytics into the hands of everyone to drive better business outcomes. Right-sized and share models to test scenarios. Finance and other users and integrated to meet the needs of your organization, the have the flexibility and information to create and adapt plans, members of the Cognos 10 family include: budgets and forecasts. • Cognos Insight—for individuals who want freedom and flexibility of desktop analytics • Cognos Express—for workgroups, departments or midsize businesses who need to be up and running fast with a solution that is easy to install and manage • Cognos Enterprise—for organizations who need to meet strategic objectives spanning multiple functions, levels and business units Whether you want to deploy to a couple of desktops or to your entire enterprise, IBM has the solution for you. You can even address your most pressing needs now and grow your solution over time. With the Cognos 10 family, you get the flexibility and ease of use that the business demands while providing IT with integrated, easy-to-manage software that seamlessly grows with evolving needs. Figure 1: Historical facts, real-time data and predictive models in one unified workspace. 5
  • 6. Traditional BI infused with performance management and personal analytics: Balancing user freedom with IT control In short, Cognos Enterprise is designed to arm every user with what they need to act, support the way users want to work and meet the needs of both the business and IT. Arming every user with what they need Users need quick access to facts and the flexibility to manage information so they can make informed decisions. With Cognos Enterprise, business users in your organization can: OMERS streamlines reporting, external audits and more • Assemble relevant information to understand the business. • Analyze information to make fact-based recommendations. With more than $53,000,000,0000 in net assets in 2010, • Share and collaborate in analytics processes to achieve OMERS is one of Canada’s leading pension funds. It administers a diversified global portfolio of stocks and alignment. bonds, along with real estate, infrastructure and private • Act on findings to drive better business outcomes. equity investments that consistently yield superior returns, ultimately funding almost 70 percent of the plan over the And, IT can deliver a system that helps users outperform with long-term. Building on previous success with IBM Business confidence knowing they have complete understanding of their Analytics software, OMERS chose to deploy Cognos business. Enterprise for financial reporting, planning and forecasting, uniting 41 sets of books and 9 charts of accounts into a Assembling relevant information single entity, eliminating manual reconciliations and saving Assembling relevant information involves three main activities: several days per quarter. Financial reports are generated faster and financial planning processes are now automated, • Quickly and easily finding the most relevant content with which eliminates the need to hire external consultants, integrated search (Figure 2) and navigation saving up to $15,000 a year. In addition, the solution • Monitoring the pulse of the business in a single workspace has streamlined an allocation process that previously that shows historical information alongside real-time updates, took 1.5 hours of pure system processing time for each iteration, and it can now be executed in minutes, saving plans and predictive results approximately 30 hours annually. • Easily exploring and personalizing information by formatting content and adding visualizations and calculations to gain richer insight 6
  • 7. Business Analytics How does it work? With integrated search, users can navigate content to find the right information. They can interact with that information in an interface designed to help them explore, personalize and format data for a better understanding of what is going on in the business. Users see can see history, look at current numbers, view plans and analyze predictive results. For example, a customer service representative can be confident she has information from every time period needed to make the right decision for that specific situation, because she can view: • Historic call and customer satisfaction data • The number of calls currently coming in • Actual and plan information • Future predictions generated by predictive analysis Figure 2: Integrated search. Analyzing information Analyzing information in an analytics-driven organization includes: Cognos Enterprise is designed to provide what users • Understanding the underlying reasons for an event or need for each of these activities. To help with information action with lightning-fast analysis of all critical business data collection, drag-and-drop features can be used to create • Uncovering relationships in data that will give you a wider unique perspectives or to personalize content with the user’s context own perspective. It is also possible to incorporate external • Developing what-if scenarios on the fly to validate workgroup or personal data with corporate sources. The assumptions and make strong and informed recommendations interactive workspace makes it easier to follow the natural • Harnessing predictive results to better understand what path from viewing to light exploration and on to deeper might happen analysis. Users can uncover insights by following their own • Driving decisions by creating and sharing statistical evidence trains of thought, add visualizations to gain richer insight to validate information and create new ways to present valuable information. 7
  • 8. Traditional BI infused with performance management and personal analytics: Balancing user freedom with IT control Cognos Enterprise provides users with an extensive set of analysis capabilities so they can anticipate and shape outcomes with fact-based recommendations. It includes tools designed to drill into both corporate and personal business data. Users are able to create and share statistical evidence to compare, for example, the correlation between the demand for a product and its price, which then can be used to make recommendations for future promotions. Or they can create scenarios as needed to visualize a profitability problem in the context of the current quarter’s revenues. A customer service manager might wish to see the profitability of rendering a new service to customers and also view the effect of a discount for that service. Cognos Enterprise users are no longer constrained to historical information and validating what has happened. Figure 3: Workspace personalized for defects. Cognos Enterprise helps users uncover why something happened and then helps them decide what the next best action should be. What-if analysis capabilities make it possible You use that information to create a report that focuses to create scenarios that help users anticipate risk and validate on the resources and the defects, adding a scatter plot their assumptions. Cognos Enterprise can also help them (Figure 4) to demonstrate that there is a correlation between examine predictive results to better understand what might resources and defects. Meanwhile, a coworker uses his happen in the future. personal desktop solution to do research on competitors. He pulls together his analysis and creates a report on the To understand how it all works, imagine that you oversee desktop that is published and incorporated directly into product quality for a company, and you have noticed that the Cognos Enterprise environment. current revenue projections are not looking good and future projections are also in the red. This is affecting your company’s ability to sell products and your competitors are gaining market share. In your workspace, which has been personalized for detecting defects (Figure 3), you have the current resource plan and a list report showing key defect metrics. 8
  • 9. Business Analytics Achieving alignment It can be difficult to achieve the critical alignment of goals and objectives needed for top performance, especially in large enterprises that are spread out around the globe. Cognos Enterprise can help with capabilities designed for: • Communicating organizational strategy so all users can understand and agree on key activities and projects • Sharing insights by adding commentary to dashboards, reports and individual cells (Figure 5) • Engaging the right people at the right time to exchange ideas and accelerate alignment • Engaging in an in-depth collaborative discussion based on enterprise information Figure 4: A scatter plot demonstrating correlations between resources and defects. You can take the coworker’s analysis, add it to your defects workspace and make some adjustments to show how much your competitors are investing in R&D because it is an important data point. You now need to make some recommendations for reducing the defect rate, which should improve quality and help drive sales, so you work on a scenario that shows how increasing the R&D resources for a specific project affects the defects. You can change information and recalculate revised defect projections until you see the improvement you need. You make a quick comment and share your insight with the team. You have now used Cognos Enterprise to create fact-based recommendations that will help your company anticipate and shape better outcomes. Figure 5: Adding commentary to dashboards and reports. 9
  • 10. Traditional BI infused with performance management and personal analytics: Balancing user freedom with IT control With Cognos Enterprise, users can pool their personal data with other users without affecting enterprise data sources. With robust personal analytics in the mix, business users can also validate their planning assumptions, providing a fact-based approach to business plans. Before forecasting (or re-forecasting), for example, a planner can share new discoveries and prototype plans with the core team, who, in turn, can explore performance gaps at various levels of detail. Users can also attach greater business context to the information itself by capturing annotations down to the cell level, including definitions of terms, data lineage and comments explaining how and why decisions were made. With scorecards and strategy management capabilities, it is possible to communicate organizational strategy so all stakeholders can understand and align with key activities Figure 6: Initiate an activity in your workspace. and projects. Built-in collaboration capabilities accelerate alignment by Acting on findings engaging the right people at the right time to exchange ideas After users have assembled data, analyzed information and and knowledge. Dashboard activities help everyone engage achieved alignment of strategy, they need to be able to act. in collaborative discussions based on BI content. With these The performance management capabilities of Cognos collaboration capabilities, users can: Enterprise, such as assessment, modeling and workflow, and performance reporting capabilities, can help your business: • Initiate activities (Figure 6). • Engage others with expertise. • Rapidly create and share dynamic, adaptable plans with • Post messages, files and links. shared business rules, data and metadata. • Discuss or review the opinions of others so everyone • Empower more users to model plans with guided modeling, can work together toward a common goal. which can help reduce planning time. • Assign tasks to achieve greater levels of commitment to and accountability for plans. • Track performance and compare it with strategic objectives to optimize business outcomes. 10
  • 11. Business Analytics Users in sales, marketing or other functions can analyze Supporting where and how users work planning results, explore alternative scenarios and share Business users need to make critical decisions regardless of plans in dashboards or reports. In addition, they can prompt their roles. Cognos Enterprise is designed to make BI, other team members for comments and validation. performance management and analytics available to users where and how they work: Adaptable planning and forecasting capabilities can enable consistent decision-making. Using a flexible, expressive • Over the web modeling environment that includes guided steps for building • On mobile devices dimensions, cubes, data links and processes, business analysts • In a personalized, individual workspace can quickly develop models and link them to other models to • In process form a cohesive set of enterprise plans that can accommodate current practices such as driver-based planning, profitability Web analysis or rolling forecasting. With Cognos Enterprise, users work in a web-based interface that is unified so they can view historical data alongside With the same interface, analysts can then deploy the current data and predict outcomes with advanced analytics. models to workgroups or users throughout the enterprise Users can move from viewing information to working with for contribution, with planning types, such as hierarchical data or combining BI content with external web and application or non-hierarchical, and interfaces that are adaptable to the data sources and systems. In addition, the web interface can preferences of your business. Workflow capabilities help you connect the right people to share insight, gather perspectives structure and automate analytic processes to drive greater and opinions and understand how decisions were made and speed, accuracy and increased participation and accountability who made them. As a result, everyone in your company can in performance planning and forecasting. easily interact, share information, plan, model and conduct comprehensive analytics without having to use special Cognos Enterprise is also designed to provide a planning programming or get IT involved. environment with many report formatting options. Planners and managers can view and share template-based or ad hoc reports, from those with complex dimensions, such as balance sheet or cash flow, to alternate scenarios for forecasts to financial intelligence such as the result of a product profitability analysis. 11
  • 12. Traditional BI infused with performance management and personal analytics: Balancing user freedom with IT control Mobile Many BI users are on the road frequently, and they expect to be able to content on a wide range of mobile devices, including their personal smart phones and tablets. Cognos Enterprise includes mobile solutions that are designed to provide the same content regardless of location. Users can also easily interact with trusted information to make decisions when offline or get focused information at their fingertips with location-aware reports. These reports zero in on where a user is currently and provide information related to clients and prospects that are in that area. In addition, users can also be assured that the information they receive on their mobile devices is no different from the information they receive on their computers in the office. Desktop Figure 7: Publish personal work as a shared application. Cognos Enterprise also offers users a personal analytics solution that enables them to work independently on their desktops. They can explore, understand, share and take action. In process They can drag and drop imported data, create data from With Cognos Enterprise, it is not necessary to switch scratch and enrich data without complex scripting. They can from other applications when you need BI, performance create custom applications, dashboards and what-if scenario management or analytics. Instead, it is designed to integrate models for analysis. They can control presentation with analytics with existing applications and business workflows. visualization capabilities and they can publish their personal You can embed information assets into everyday applications, work as a shared application to collaborate and take action portals and business processes so users have greater access to (Figure 7). Because they are connected to your enterprise, all sources of relevant information. Managed workflow helps they can share their content and use the content of others. connect all actions and decisions. 12
  • 13. Business Analytics Meeting the needs of both the business Often, organizations install and adopt BI capabilities that are and IT not easily integrated with other capabilities or with other Cognos Enterprise is designed to meet the needs of both applications and systems, such as ERP and data warehousing. the business and your IT organization with: Cognos Enterprise is designed to integrate with other • A system that grows and adapts with the business capabilities, applications, data warehouses, information • Complete and consistent access to all information infrastructure and enterprise systems. In addition, this • Optimized performance for rapid information delivery integration is optimized for lightning-fast performance, • Proactive management with a complete view of system scalability and easier governance. activity Cognos Enterprise is open with broad hardware and device Growing and adapting with the business support so that companies can deploy it on their current The best solutions are those that can grow and adapt as your servers, tablets, smart phones, workstations and more. business needs change. For that reason, Cognos Enterprise There are also different deployment options: you can install is modular, integrated and open so that IT organizations are them in your data center or in a private cloud or opt for not hampered with excessive implementation, deployment, hosted services. management and maintenance tasks. Gaining complete and consistent access to information Because Cognos Enterprise is modular, IT can implement Complete and consistent access to information is important new capabilities to address specific challenges. For to both IT and the business. Cognos Enterprise is designed example, your IT organization can start by implementing to provide open data access to all data sources regardless of capabilities such as dashboards, mobile and key reports and where the data is stored. As a result, it is possible to use most add functionality such as collaboration or what-if modeling combinations of data and evolve them over time with minimal later. As your organization grows and requirements change, effects on users. nothing is left behind because it is easy to add capabilities and there is no need to change products or to rip and replace Cognos Enterprise also helps you implement flexible data what is already there. sourcing strategies so that data sources can be combined and real-time information integrated into workspaces, providing users with a more holistic view of overall business performance. The business owns and manages a common sanctioned source for all dimensions and a dictionary of business terms to provide clarity and understanding. 13
  • 14. Traditional BI infused with performance management and personal analytics: Balancing user freedom with IT control As a result, business users know where information comes IT can validate content from multiple environments in a from and are confident that it is consistent and complete. single interface, which can streamline upgrade processes and increase IT efficiency. Multi-version coexistence support Achieving optimized performance for rapid eases upgrade and roll out. IT can also effectively use and information delivery enhance existing security standards and restrict access to data Cognos Enterprise is designed to optimize the performance according to business requirements, while at the same time and on-demand response time of multidimensional data. reducing barriers to user adoption with the option to simplify Cognos Enterprise uses a 64-bit in-memory analytics engine the login process. designed to analyze complex or large data sets for on-demand planning, analysis, profitability analysis and management Conclusion reporting. In addition, aggregate operations can speed up When you put all the capabilities and options together, it is computing time, and optimized caching and flexible refresh easy to see why Cognos Enterprise can be described as both management enable the reuse of views that users repeatedly simple and powerful. access. Cognos Enterprise is also designed to scale to support enterprise-level planning and analytics. It is simple because you can start just about anywhere with any BI or performance management capability and add Confidently deploying and proactively managing capabilities as you go. Users are not overwhelmed with a Cognos Enterprise is designed for confident deployment massive system of applications that they must navigate to get and proactive management. A complete view of system to the capabilities they need. activity enables administrators to take action before a problem affects business, which can help meet and exceed It is powerful because it blurs the distinctions between BI, SLAs. It is fault-tolerant with self-aware peer-to-peer services business analytics and performance management and exploits and automatic load balancing to help minimize risk for the capabilities of all three. As a result, it can support all mission-critical deployments. It is also designed to effectively your business decisions, arm your users with what they need, manage through change to lessen the effect on both IT and make BI and analytics capabilities available where and how the business by helping IT assess the effect of change and users need them and provide for the needs of both the business address business requirements quickly (for example, refresh and IT. pack, data source updates). 14
  • 15. Business Analytics IBM has redefined and reinvented BI by infusing it with performance management and business analytics to help your organization become analytics driven. With Cognos Enterprise, your organization can use BI, performance management and personal analytics to guide actions in all corners of the business. It can help you find the answers to how you are doing and why, and what to do next to stay ahead of the competition. And the result? Better, smarter decisions for the best business outcomes now and in the future. About Business Analytics IBM Business Analytics software delivers actionable insights decision-makers need to achieve better business performance. IBM offers a comprehensive, unified portfolio of business intelligence, predictive and advanced analytics, financial performance and strategy management, governance, risk and compliance and analytic applications. With IBM software, companies can spot trends, patterns and anomalies, compare “what if” scenarios, predict potential threats and opportunities, identify and manage key business risks and plan, budget and forecast resources. With these deep analytic capabilities our customers around the world can better understand, anticipate and shape business outcomes. For more information For further information, visit ibm.com/business-analytics. Request a call To request a call or to ask a question, go to ibm.com/ business-analytics/contactus. An IBM representative will respond to your inquiry within two business days. 15
  • 16. © Copyright IBM Corporation 2012 IBM Corporation Software Group Route 100 Somers, NY 10589 Produced in the United States of America April 2012 IBM, the IBM logo, ibm.com, and Cognos are trademarks of International Business Machines Corp., registered in many jurisdictions worldwide. Other product and service names might be trademarks of IBM or other companies. A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the Web at “Copyright and trademark information” at ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml This document is current as of the initial date of publication and may be changed by IBM at any time. Not all offerings are available in every country in which IBM operates. The performance data discussed herein is presented as derived under specific operating conditions. Actual results may vary. It is the user’s responsibility to evaluate and verify the operation of any other products or programs with IBM products and programs. THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF NON-INFRINGEMENT. IBM products are warranted according to the terms and conditions of the agreements under which they are provided. 1 Steve LaValle, Michael Hopkins, Eric Lesser, Rebecca Shockley and Nina Kruschwitz, “Analytics: The new path to value.” IBM Institute of Business Value and MIT Sloan Management Review, Oct. 2010, http://c0004013.cdn2.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/ MIT-SMR-IBM-Analytics-The-New-Path-to-Value-Fall-2010.pdf, accessed 16 Apr. 2012. 2 Steve LaValle, Michael Hopkins, Eric Lesser, Rebecca Shockley and Nina Kruschwitz, “Analytics: The new path to value.” IBM Institute of Business Value and MIT Sloan Management Review, Oct. 2010, http://c0004013.cdn2.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/ MIT-SMR-IBM-Analytics-The-New-Path-to-Value-Fall-2010.pdf, accessed 16 Apr. 2012. Please Recycle YTW03211-CAEN-00