IBM Cognos Supply Chain Performance Procurement Analytics vs SAS for Demand-Driven Planning and Optimization comparison

IBM Cognos Analytic Applications deliver packaged reporting and analytics that enable you to gain cross-departmental and functional insight into your performance far more cost effectively than if you were to build an analytics solution. Cognos Analytic Applications leverage the strength and capabilities of the industry-leading IBM Cognos 10 platform. Unlike our competitors, IBM Cognos Analytic Applications deliver a highly adaptable, integrated line-of-business view of performance that can make changes to business rules, data attributes, and source through a drag-and-drop process to ensure continuously relevant reporting content, while eliminating much of the coding, customizing, and interpreting of data involved with other vendors' solutions.

SAS for Demand-Driven Planning and Optimization offer an integrated suite of forecasting, analysis, visualization, reporting and optimization modules built on a common base. SAS for Demand-Driven Planning and Optimization gives users of all types the information they need in a set of common dashboards and scorecards as well as dynamic performance reports.