Banking

Overview


Over 1,000 retail, corporate, and investment banking institutions trust IBM Cognos solutions to increase customer, product, and channel profitability, manage and reduce risk, address compliance issues and improve the predictability of financial performance. For them we offer:

The Right Technology and Solutions

IBM Cognos software and services deliver value to the world's largest financial institutions enabling them to:

  • Leverage their existing data investment to identify, report on, and analyze costs of trade, staff performance, risk management, branch profitability, loan performance, and customer profitability, among others.
  • Aggregate risk (credit, operational, market, country) data from multiple silos, diverse business lines, all regions, and across the organization to deliver enterprise risk reporting.
  • Augment or replace cumbersome spreadsheet-based systems with flexible, connected planning software that reduces forecasting, consolidation, close, and reporting cycles by days or weeks.
  • Manage multiple reporting and consolidation standards such as IAS, Basel II, and U.S.-based GAAP; inter-company elimination and reconciliation; multicurrency translation; complex ownership calculations, and financial consolidation rules.

Products for Banking

IBM Cognos 8 Banking Risk Performance- Credit Risk is a packaged analytic application that provides standard reports and dashboards to accelerate access to credit risk insight.

IBM Cognos software provides a world-class enterprise planning and BI software platform that helps banks plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance. Learn more about Performance Management for Banking


Blueprints: The Fastest Methods

Financial organizations have no time to waste in implementing software to achieve maximum value and ROI. That’s why only IBM offers a suite of IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints to address planning and performance management process areas that directly impact an organization’s ability to create business value. Blueprints consist of targeted, pre-built data, process and policy models based on proven best-practices in bank operations planning, budgeting, and forecasting. They also combine the power of IBM Cognos 8 BI for reporting, analysis, scorecards, and more.


The Requisite Experience

Many of the leading players in banking already choose IBM Cognos software, including:

  • Nine of the top 10 banks in Europe
  • All the top 10 banks in the USA
  • All of the top 10 commercial banks in the world

Additional Resources:


IBM Cognos 8 BI Reporting
Online Demo
See real-world reporting scenarios for casual business users and professional report authors.
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Planning in the Financial Services Industry
White Paper
Find out the technology and best practices for effective budgeting, forecasting, planning, and reporting.
IBM and Risk Management: Managing Risk Through Business Intelligence
Online Demo
See how business intelligence can help you analyze and report on risk exposure in your company.
Business Intelligence and Banking
White Paper
Find out from Datamonitor Analyst Jaroslaw Knapik how banks are managing risk, getting deeper understanding into customers, and becoming more operational efficient with BI.
Banking Customer Story Bundle
Success Story
Learn how banks such as HSBC Hong Kong are using IBM Cognos solutions to reduce risk and increase profitability.
Tower Group article: Commercial and Small Business Relationship-Based Profitability and Pricing
Article
Find out the building blocks and best practices for relationship-based pricing.
Tower Group article: Commercial and Small Business Banking in Troubled Times
Article
Find out how banks are using relationship-based pricing to increase profitability and growth.
Business Intelligence in Retail Banking
Analyst Report
Find out how banks are using BI to enhance decision-making and profitability.
 
Banking Resources
IBM Cognos 8 Banking Risk Performance—Credit Risk
Online Demo
See how this application helps banks quickly create the dashboards and reports they need to better manage risk.
Business Intelligence and Banking
White Paper
Find out the market maturity, technology imperatives, and business benefits of BI in banking.
Performance Manager Book for Banking
Book
Find out the proven strategies for turning information into banking performance management.
Rapid Scorecarding for financial services
White Paper
Find out the value of scorecarding and the five key steps to creating an effective one.
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