Cognos, an IBM company and a provider of business intelligence and performance management solutions, has announced that Great Clips, a franchised salon brand, has selected IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence as its standard to streamline operational reporting and analysis.
Great Clips wanted to automate its reporting and analysis processes. IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) was selected to integrate with Great Clips’s Microsoft environment and seamlessly pull data from a number of disparate sources including the company’s financial, human resources, franchise, legal, and point of sale systems.
Patricia Vekich Waldron, director of global retail industry at Cognos, said: In partnership with Cognos, Great Clips can harness the power of their existing systems to get a complete view of performance across the organization so they can optimize their business by improving salon operations, managing margins and enhancing their brand.
