Channels ▼   IBM Launches Cognos Express Planner  Launched
today, the IBM Cognos Express Planner is Big Blue's latest
effort to win the hearts and minds of mid-sized organizations
seeking to use software tools to drive a more integrated,
automated, and collaborative approach to building timely
financial plans. With performance and resources prioritization
analytics, the company suggests that many small- to medium-sized
businesses (SMBs) are still using manual spreadsheet planning
processes to put information in perspective based on changing
market conditions, mitigate risk, and capitalize on new
business.  While IBM's assertions over the use of paper-based
spreadsheet planning and old-school double entry bookkeeping are
possibly somewhat exaggerated, the fact does remain that SMBs
are less likely to use advanced business analytics and planning
software to steer their businesses. With this in mind, IBM
Cognos Express Planner is the company's way of offering
planning, budgeting, and forecasting application depl