Cognos, a provider of business intelligence software, has announced that Study Group, an Australian-based international education firm, has selected IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and IBM Cognos 8 Planning as the performance management standard for streamlining its worldwide operational forecasting, budgeting and planning.
Under terms of the deal, Cognos will replace Study Group’s existing spreadsheet-based budgeting and planning solution and provide the organization’s sales, marketing, finance and planning teams with an integrated performance management dashboard for future budget and program planning and modeling.
With the IBM Cognos software, Study Group will be able to seamlessly align its global network of offices to enable integrated planning and perform ‘what if’ analysis in real-time, helping the organization to spot trends and issues in advance, then adjust resources according to demand in specific countries, programs or courses.
