Your Pain Points

• Your company does not have a data warehouse or company-wide BI strategy and you are in a midsize company or a department, division or subsidiary of a large enterprise.
• Your business users don’t have access to the information they need to make better decisions.
• You have a backlog of reporting and information access requests into IT.
• You have limited IT resources, BI expertise and budgets.
• Your company uses Excel, Access, Monarch and/or Crystal Reports to produce reports, plans, budgets and forecasts.
• According to a recent 2009 Accenture survey:
  • 47 percent of users don't have confidence in their information
  • 59 percent say they missed information they should have used
  • 42 percent of managers use wrong information at least once a week

IBM Cognos Express Summary

• A one-stop Business Intelligence and planning solution purpose-built for midsize companies.
• Delivers all the essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard and planning capabilities that your midsize company needs at a price you can afford. Your users can analyze data in a business context and quickly gain insight into your company performance and trends.
• Provides consistent, reliable information for better, faster decision-making to manage costs, drive profitability and increase growth.

What makes IBM Cognos Express unique?

• Contains everything needed in one preconfigured solution.
• Can be deployed in a matter of a few hours and plugs into existing infrastructure with minimal impact – requires no additional software.
• Easy-to-use, self-service access to empower your business users.
• Business users can get the reports and analysis they need without relying on the IT staff.
• Easy to buy; rapid ROI. Get started with just one or two capabilities to realize immediate value, then add others according to project needs, resources and budget.

Benefits

• Easy to Install
• Preconfigured - "No assembly required"
• Everything you need - Embedded
  • OLAP
  • Security
  • Content Store
  • Web Server
  • Data integration
• Central management console for content, security, licensing and administration
• Benefits
  • No hidden costs
  • Minimal resources needed
  • Quick time to value

• Easy to Use
  • Novice to advanced users
  • Simple business view creation
  • Data viewed in business context
  • Right interface for the right user
  • Flexible delivery model
  • Benefits
    • Reduce IT backlog
    • Reduce burden on IT
    • Empower business
    • Use minimal resources
    • Quick time to value
• Easy to Buy
• Buy what you need and when you need it
• Low entry price point
• No hidden costs
• Room to grow
• Affordable
• Benefits
• Start small, start anywhere
• Match projects to resource and budget constraints
• Quick time to value
• Low Risk

Pricing

• With special promotional financing rates you can now purchase IBM Cognos Express for less than $25 per user/month, subject to IBM Global Financing approval (available thru 12/31/09)
• Typical project with 20 reporting seats = $22,000; or 10 reporting seats and 5 planning seats = $32,000.
• Entry level pricing = starting at $14,500 ($12,000 plus 5 @ $500 per reporting named user)