A Visualization is Worth a Thousand Tables : How IBM Business Analytics Lets Users See Big Data

Too often, organizations must resort to presenting data in summary tables and generating graphs and charts with spreadsheet applications. As business data gives way to big data, these approaches are increasingly inadequate and fail to produce useful, accessible views of data. IBM has several solutions that let technical and non-technical users alike dispense with ineffective, legacy approaches and intuitively explore and visualize...

IBM® Cognos® TM1® has long been a leading platform for planning, budgeting and forecasting. Now, Cognos TM1 can be integrated with both IBM SPSS® Modeler and IBM SPSS Statistics to help the finance teams create plans and forecasts that are more detailed and more accurate than would be possible using these solutions individually.

BI forward: A full view of your business

What businesses need from BI is a full picture. And that is why it is important to understand that, for now and in the future, BI should help you not only describe and diagnose your past and current performance, but also predict future performance. When your business can do all three, you have a better idea of what your business needs to do to stay competitive. You have reports that show you where you have been, scorecards and...