Business Reporting
Business Reporting Technology is Essential for Success
In the business information age, the ability to share information is equally important to having the right information. That’s why so many companies seek a business reporting tool that gets the right information to the right people at the right time. Reporting solutions have proliferated, but many are limited to only certain areas of the organization — financial, HR, inventory, customers – and must be combined with other solutions to provide comprehensive data, placing an undue strain on IT and on user patience. Other solutions are more complete, but require extensive training and knowledge of complex data relationships. A comprehensive yet easy-to-use solution is what everybody is seeking. That’s why the business reporting tool in Cognos 8 Business Intelligence has proven to be so effective for so many enterprises.
Cognos Products Provide Superior Business Reporting Tools
For more than 25 years, Cognos has provided business intelligence solutions to the leading public and private enterprises. The presence of Cognos’ solutions among the top companies in every industry around the world, and consistent top pick among industry analysts demonstrates the quality of Cognos products and the success that can be achieved with them. The Cognos family of business performance products combines reporting with tools for analysis, scorecarding, and planning to offer an integrated approach to enterprise performance management. With Cognos, companies have found exactly what they were looking for — a tool that is easy to deploy, easy to use, and provides powerful reporting functionality that can be applied to any combination of data sources.
Business Users Find Cognos Reporting Simple to Use
Cognos business reporting capabilities offer many advantages, not the least of which is a single authoring environment for creating all report types, including dashboards. Users can pull data from relational sources like Oracle and SQL, dimensional sources like SAP BW and Cognos OLAP, ERP systems like SAP and PeopleSoft, and modern sources like XML.
Cognos allows users to save time when creating and interpreting reports. Users don’t have to understand database logic or computer languages — reports are created by dragging and dropping. Like standard word processing programs, reports are automatically resized when new data is included. Extremely intuitive, Cognos software promotes self-service reports, reducing the costs of training and IT support. And Cognos business software is scalable and easy to deploy, with a single metadata layer for all reporting.
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