Featured Strategic Partner - Cognos
 Acorn Systems is a ‘Powered by Cognos’ Solution Partner- Powered by Cognos partners deliver proven performance management solutions that combine Cognos technology with deep domain and industry expertise. Together with Cognos, Acorn Systems provides performance measurement in a total CPM solution. Acorn enhances the value of Cognos’ best-of-breed applications with our measurements, both in integration to Planning and BI/Reporting.
Overview- The Acorn Enterprise Performance Suite (EPS) focuses on profit improvement through actionable insight into costs, revenues, profitability, and capacity. The solution supports customers in many industries including financial services, retail, distribution, and manufacturing.
The core foundation is Acorn Performance Analyzer®, a sophisticated process modeling and allocation engine that “operationalizes the financials” of your company. Insight into true net profitability at any level—product, customer, business unit, or supplier—provides the foundation for value-driven corporate performance management. Pre-built integration with Cognos BI and CPM technology helps your organization improve decision making and performance, and increase profitability.
Acorn’s performance solutions are unlike any others available today in terms of capability. They’re highly scalable, flexible, and accurate. Even more important is the knowledge and expertise we use to develop new strategies and value solutions for our customers worldwide—from Global1000 manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and financial institutions to smaller businesses focused on supply chain efficiencies and customer and product profitability. We work as a team to understand your business and how best to drive real, sustainable profit improvements. We help you operationalize your financials to drive profitability.
Benefits:
- • Drive significant profit improvement
- • Create a consistent view of performance for finance and operations
- • Complete the required CPM solution components for Cognos clients
- Features:
- • Sophisticated cost, revenue, profitability, and capacity allocation engine
- • Accurate, validated operational driver insight, integrated with Cognos Planning
- • True net profitability by key company assets provides the optimal Cognos BI and CPM foundation
Architecture- Acorn products are able to generate user-defined cubes for consumption by Cognos software. Acorn also provides pre-built integration with Cognos BI and Planning through the recently released, jointly developed Branch Performance Blueprint. BI software is used for reporting and analytics. Planning software is used for all forward-looking, predictive planning and analysis.
Acorn is built on Microsoft SQL Server 2005, which is designed for open integration in terms of both data input and output.
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- This is the first software application that we've implemented that worked
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- CFO of $100M+ Steel Company
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