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IBM Cognos TM1 provides a real-time approach to consolidating, viewing, and editing enormous volumes of multidimensional data. Using a patented, 64-bit, in-memory OLAP server, IBM Cognos TM1 has a proven track record supporting financial performance management.
• Ease of use, thanks to a development environment that enables users to create sophisticated applications with no need for programming or traditional IT skills
• A patented in-memory calculation engine that provides compact data storage and exceptionally fast performance
• Model design and data access that presents business information in familiar formats
• An intuitive, flexible approach, which enables users to easily express complex, multi-dimensional business rules (for example, cost allocation rules which span multiple cost centers or products)
• Built-in data integration capabilities to access IT-managed systems of record
• Strong integration with IBM Cognos 8 Planning, IBM Cognos 8 Controller, IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint
IBM Cognos TM1 9.4 provides new capabilities for TM1-based application development, through "Active Forms". Innovating on TM1's Excel-based application authoring capability, Active Forms provides a number of new or updated capabilities to power users and end-users alike:
• Report rows with asymmetrical drill-down
• Formula-driven row definition
• Intuitive Excel-based formatting
• Action Buttons for navigation and process integration
• Functional parity in both thick and thin client deployment
• Server-side zero suppression
Enterprise-Ready Web Deployment - Take advantage of maintenance-free reporting and input template creation for both Excel and Web environments. IBM Cognos TM1 Executive Viewer has moved to an XML format for view definition and rendering, providing an easy way to create programmatic maintenance and deployment routines.
SOX compliance - Improve product compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley-related regulations for GRC (governance, risk and compliance). A new logging facility captures all non-data maintenance activity for comprehensive audit capabilities.
Global Support - Full Unicode support means TM1 9.4 accommodates expanded string lengths beyond 255 characters. Two new languages - simplified Chinese and Japanese - have also been introduced.
IBM Cognos TM1 has received some of the industry's highest ratings for helping organizations drive better business decisions, with faster implementation times and lower IT costs.
IBM Cognos TM1 Web - lets users quickly and easily create real-time Web-based reports and charts directly from Microsoft Excel.
IBM Cognos TM1 Executive Viewer - provides real-time Web access to OLAP databases for non-technical business users needing ad-hoc analysis and distributed reporting.
IBM Cognos TM1 MidMarket Edition - offers an array of applications, easy-to-use interfaces, high-performance analytics, and flexible data management.
Every organization recognizes the importance of trusted, accurate information – but having the data is not enough. Companies need the ability to leverage this information effectively and generate the insights required to better serve customers, transform their business processes and make better decisions, faster – in other words, to optimize their business.
Challenges all companies face today include:
Mid-size business challenges are similar to large enterprises, but mid-size companies don’t have the budgets, IT resources or expertise to undertake a large business performance management initiative.
An effective solution must deliver the right business intelligence and financial performance management functionality, with short time-to-value. The solution must be easy to manage, and provide a growth path to additional capabilities as the organization grows.
All the essential reporting, analysis and planning capabilities are available in one complete, integrated solution from a single vendor. The following three modules can be used separately or together:
IBM Cognos Express is so easy to use that it can be managed and operated by business users themselves. Self-service access enables users to work independently to quickly access information and create and modify their own reports and analysis —without having to rely on constrained IT resources for assistance.
As your needs expand in the future, IBM Cognos Express provides a smooth path to add capabilities, using the same familiar software application.
Contact MCI, a leading implementation partner for IBM Cognos Express solutions, today to find out how we can help your company utilize IBM Cognos Express to leverage your information and optimize your business.
To consistently manage your company's performance, you need the ability to develop timely and accurate plans and budgets that are aligned with strategic goals. You also need the ability to seamlessly integrate corporate and departmental planning, quickly model business scenarios, and re-forecast to meet rapidly changing business conditions. Finally, you need a way to ensure a fully documented audit trail and compliance with strict guidelines for consolidating and reporting company information internally and externally, in accordance with regulatory requirements.
You need an intuitive, unified solution for planning, budgeting, and consolidation.The SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation application unifies and streamlines the planning, budgeting, and forecasting process and can enable a faster close. Finance-owned and maintained, the application unifies planning, financial consolidation and management reporting – improving budget cycle times, driving compliance with regulatory and financial standards, helping reduce external audit costs, instilling confidence, and reducing business risk.
With SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, everything you need to meet your bottom-up and top-down financial and operational planning requirements, as well as complete consolidation and reporting, is available through a single, unified application and user interface. You can benefit from:
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation is available in two versions:
For mid-size companies, we recommend SAP BusinessObjects Edge Planning and Consolidation.
Want to learn more? Contact MCI today to find out how we can help your organization face your planning and financial reporting challenges.
Adapt is a powerful and flexible multi-user system designed specifically for use by the personnel industry. It can completely revolutionise administration within your company and improve your control over candidates, job specifications, clients and contacts.
Adapt is a powerful database for your candidate and client information, as well as your temporary, contract and permanent requirements.
Bond Talent is a powerful and versatile web-based application specifically developed for corporations who wish to streamline their in-house recruitment processes and save costs.
It offers seamless online interfaces to deliver sophisticated workflow and accessibility for all stakeholders involved in the Resourcing and HR Processes, with multi-lingual and character set capability.
Talent has been designed to complement rather than replace, important HR processes. It reduces paperwork and improves efficiency which frees up your staff to concentrate on strategic development rather than administrative tasks. Savings in time and improved productivity are balanced with the simplicity and user friendliness of Talent.
The software is ideal for multi-site global offices where training, language and day-to-day business practices can benefit from both Bond's experienced support teams and the complete configurability and scalability of the product.
An interactive online application process that invites job seekers into your applicant pool through your own corporate website. The portal also provides an intelligent screening process that informs you and your applicants of their suitability through the use of 'killer' questions.
The system is supported by an application tracking process that manages candidates through the recruitment cycle from application to decision. A suitable interface can be delivered to all stakeholders involved in the hiring process; vacancies can be raised by line management through an online vacancy requisition function and thereafter authorised by key HR personnel.
A comprehensive and intuitive search function that provides the user with the ability to search on documents and within candidate resource pools using pre-defined criteria.
An interactive agency portal that provides secure visibility to your third party suppliers to view vacancies and submit candidates online. The system will support the use of recruitment organisations and greatly reduce the associated overhead in time and resource required to communicate with specific third parties.
A reporting tool within the application delivering comprehensive visibility of all activity throughout the recruitment lifecycle with the added advantage of flexibility, allowing additional ad-hoc reporting requirements to be easily met.
The underlying architecture within Bond Talent provides limitless flexibility to ensure that the system can be deployed to each client's precise specifications. Bond's operational team have an incisive knowledge of the talent management market and possess the expertise to identify additional client requirements and configure the system accordingly.
• Create vast savings in annual hiring expenditure and drive down administration costs
• Improve the candidate experience through the intuitive online application portal
• Attract high quality candidates and market the brand image of the organisation
• Manage the vacancy requisition and authorisation process through easy-to-use web forms
• Screen candidates quickly and efficiently and provide immediate feedback
• Reduce the number of unsuitable candidates applying for positions through the use of screening questions
• Allow online scheduling of screening interviews and assessment centres
• Track applicants though the selection process from application to decision
• Provide comprehensive management reports to key hiring stakeholders
• Maximise the use of the candidate database of current and past applications with the powerful search facility
Sage Accpac ERP offers the freedom of choice, seamless integration, high performance, and reliability that forward-thinking companies rely on to increase profitability and gain competitive advantage.
Sage Accpac ERP (formerly ACCPAC Advantage Series) is an advanced accounting application built on a world-class, object-oriented, and multitiered architecture. Designed for companies of all sizes, Sage Accpac can be deployed both as a Web-based and desktop application, and is the foundation for an integrated set of end-to-end business management applications.
You choose the solutions that work best for you: the applications, database, and deployment options, the user interface and languages, the network environment or operating system, the add-on software developed by Sage Software or independent industry experts, and the customized features that help you operate more efficiently and profitably.
From single-user remote locations to large corporate environments with demanding accounting needs, no other product scales like Sage Accpac.
With Sage Accpac, you can seamlessly upgrade from one edition to the next as your business requirements expand. When you upgrade, your data and custom reports easily move with you. All Sage Accpac editions have an identical user interface, making it easy to adapt to the next edition without costly staff retraining or data conversion. Sage Accpac also enables data processing to be distributed across multiple servers, so as your number of user's increases, multiple servers can share the processing load.
Sage Accpac has changed the rules for mid-market business management solutions by offering complete access to your accounting system through a standard Web browser. No longer limited by location, now you can access Sage Accpac anywhere, anytime through our easy-to-use, Web-based interface.
Sage Accpac is easy to set up and use, with intuitive wizards and a familiar interface that makes configuration and navigation a breeze. Embedded Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) lets you easily expand, customize, and integrate your Sage Accpac application. From simple desktop personalization to user-specific customization, Sage Accpac adapts to the way you do business.
Sage Accpac is a complete system designed to deliver significant competitive advantages to your business today with the investment protection you need to upgrade quickly and easily from one edition to the next as your business requirements expand. Our value-added protection plan is offered across all of our product lines.
In today's global marketplace, competition extends well beyond a country's borders. Sage Accpac supports multiple languages and is designed to satisfy the most demanding international requirements. A truly global application, Sage Accpac supports multiple currencies, value-added taxes, GST, and local accounting requirements so that you can be confident you have what it takes to compete worldwide.
Sage Software has an extensive network of more than 400 development partners who develop and market a wide range of industry-specific applications that enhance and extend Sage Accpac for specific industries and special business needs. Whatever your industry, Sage Software provides cost-effective, reliable business management applications that fit your needs.
CommCIS is a comprehensive web-based insurance broker commission management system that provides income protection for brokerages, agencies and individual agents.
• By keeping track of all documentation required by compliance regulations, CommCIS supports the business of even the smallest brokerages. CommCIS is FICA and FIAS compliant
• Powerful workflow capabilities cater for any approval process, for all products and institutions
• Internet technology allows system access anywhere, anytime
• Comprehensive business intelligence leads to better planning and ensures income protection
• Agent productivity is enhanced
• Comprehensive security and integration capabilities
• Provides support for Insurance and Investment businesses
• Agents are able to view their earnings on-line
• Painless, affordable implementation and backup services from a blue-chip service provider
• Flat, level, annualized, graded or compounding products
• Manage policies and commissions in real time
• Complete and detailed audit trail
• Supports any commission calculation e.g. rules-based, scalable premiums and compound formulae
• Commission splits can be setup by transaction type or by supplier, product and branch
• Expiry dates can be set on commission splits
• Commissions can be held in a reserve account with percentages set up by transaction type. Limits can be set on reserve amounts
• Commissions can be held in a retained account and paid to a broker over a specified period
• Project and calculate future commissions with automatic renewals calculations
• Manage agents fixed contract information with commission as per their percentages
• Reconcile commissions against institution statements
• Track past and future commissions
• Manage commission splits and hierarchies
• Import statements electronically from institutions and reconcile commissions
• End-to-end processing from client initiation to commission payment transfers
• On-line approval of policies by institutions
• Status tracking on leads with auto e-mail reminders
• Rapidly adaptable to new process and workflow needs
• Compliant with New Financial Advisory and Intermediary Service Bill
• Comprehensive workflow for compliance approvals and follow-ups
• Records client details to a level that ensures the "Know thy Client" principle
• Increases agent productivity
• Client and contact management
• Agent expenses can be imported from third party software
• Commission statements, including commission earned and expenses, can be e-mailed to agents
• Activity Analysis
• Closing rate graph
• Work in progress age anaylsis
• Custom-design your own reports
• Full drill-down capability
• Generate commission reports for expected, received and past due commissions by agents, clients, insurance company and line of business
• Variance reports between expected and received commission, and other reports designed to "self manage" the system are available
• Produce commission reports, agent and client activity reports, and debtors ageing reports on-line
• Business productivity and financial reports are available on-line
• Access by registered users from anywhere, anytime
• Merge facility with MS Word to auto-generate standard documentation
• Attach MS Word and MS Excel documents to client and agent records
• Interfaces to external systems via XML and other formats
• Secure transmissions with SSL 128bit data encryption
• Multi-level user access controls
PortCIS is an innovative Portfolio Management system developed by MCI to assist Portfolio Managers in managing their accounts.
PortCIS can be tailored to suit your specific requirements.
• View all information contained in daily BDA downloads
• Powerful search capability to keep you up to date
• Powerful customisable fee calculation methods
• Facility to upload fees into BDA
• View of a Client's portfolio at any day
• Performance calculations between any two populated dates using the Dietz calculation methodology and displaying in the Alexander Forbes Statement M format allowing comparisons against any index
• Allows any user to query any information in PortCIS using standard SQL query languages or a user interface
• Model client accounts to user defined models and report on bulk buy/sell and allocations
• Ability to route orders to your trading software
• Ability to include/exclude specified instruments and cash
• Income sharing on fees charged and brokerage earned between Intermediaries and Business Partners
• Shows actual total gain/loss for a client/group of clients, partner, branch or total company
• This module of PortCIS provides business intelligence and reflects all Client portfolio positions with deal activity, forecasting, average account income, accounts gained and lost and other information that allows for proper business management, on a monthly basis
• PortCIS can be used as a standalone system. A separate front-end interface allows for the loading of non-BDA related instruments and transactions e.g. bonds, futures, own instruments, unit trusts etc with automatic daily accruals for interest rate sensitive instruments
• CGT statements on portfolios
• Unit trust management
• Income tax statements
• Cash Focus interface
• TradeCIS interface which facilitates "Live" portfolios
TradeCIS is a trading system that facilitates trading on SETS. Designed according to the JSE/LSE specifications, TradeCIS facilitates trading, routing and management of orders, incorporating the relevant JSE rules and legislation. TradeCIS can be tailored to suit your specific requirements.
• Access to relevant information on markets from order views
• Realtime view of bids, offers and full market depth
• Sector, stock activity and market share graphs
• Access to client information
• Full validation on orders
• Slow release orders
• Multiple order entry facility
• Order routing up to 4 dealers with order waiting alerts
• SMS trade confirmations
• Customisable watchlists
• A separate Infowiz module can be run standalone to distribute live market information
• The TradeCIS server provides a distribution and collection centre for all information submitted by TradeCIS clients and the JSE
• SMS alerts are sent if information or trading connections are disconnected
• Plotting of indices range is available
• Intraday share graphs or share graphs over any selected period with technical analyses
• Market share comparisons between member and total market
• SENS messages
• General alerts
• Price averaging on matched/open orders
• Facility to “hit” orders from all bids and offers screens
• Full API to enable basket and warrant trading in MS EXCEL with own rules
• Live Portfolio holdings with intraday profit and loss
• Profile credit limit and accessibility per trader
• Error checking on invalid orders submitted
• Full audit trail
• Basket Trading application
• Real-time Warrant Trading application with live warrant price calculations
• DDE links for live price feeds in MS Excel
• Sens distribution software with auotmated e-mailing and printing facility
• 3G client which facilitates trading over 3G connections
• TradeCIS Lite which provides a web -based front-end
NetCIS is an efficient web-based trading platform offering secure access for a broker's clients to trade. NetCIS integrates with TradeCIS and PortCIS to offer up to date market information as well as personal portfolio valuations and performance calculations. NetCIS can be tailored to suit your specific requirements.
• Place orders in the local market
• Monitor their portfolios
• Obtain detailed information and share prices on JSE listed companies
• Build charts and gather statistics
• Receive the latest market news and portfolio manager newsletters
• Access transaction history and tax statements
• Receive SMS alerts
• Publish updates of equity prices, indices, rand/dollar exchange rate, gold price. Latest bids and offers - delayed or realtime - means your clients are keeping abreast of market activity!
• Clients can create personalised watch-lists for quick and easy tracking of their shares by e-mail or SMS
• Full validation takes place before the client places an order to verify sufficient holdings or cash
• Deal costs are pre-calculated
• Expert investment research and recommendations published on the site.
• Trading account details
• Daily portfolio valuations and a summary of all transactions
• Various SMS services including portfolio valuations, share prices and exchange rates.
• Online statistics on trades, logins, hits per page
• Registration requests
• Facility to set up new users, activations and cancellations
• Automatic order book consolidation
• Customizable management reports
MCI's Mobile Trading is a comprehensive application that provides streaming market data and online trading capabilities for mobile device which can help a broker improve customer satisfaction and reduce costs. Our trading solution is designed to be a truly wireless application that provides secure, wireless market access and trading capabilities.
• Investors have wireless access to live stock market information and the capability to execute a trade whether at the office or on the road.
• Our solution also caters for financial professionals on the go, enabling them to increase productivity and enhance customer service.
• Information and share prices on JSE listed companies
• Access to expertise investment research and recommendations
• Access to relevant information on markets
• Alerts
• Market indices
• Real-time view of bids and offers and full market depth
• Sector and stock activity
• Access to client information
• Placing of orders in the local market with full validation – anywhere, anytime
• Customisable watch-lists
• SMS confirmations
• Monitoring of personal portfolios
• Passwords and local data encryption, transport encryption and over- the-air controls ensure your data is secure
MCI's proprietary data push mechanism enables real time data delivery to virtually any mobile platform.
MCI's Mobile Trading, is an easy- to-use tool that keeps people connected to the market anywhere, anytime.