IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint

IBM Cognos 8 platform for performance management

IBM Cognos 8 v4 IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint is a data modeling environment that gives business and financial analysts the ability to maintain, govern, and share the data models they need to optimize business performance. Users can capture and manage multiple hierarchies, structures, and definitions in a centralized store for use across performance management applications.

Create and maintain shared dimensions and hierarchies

Enable the business to capture their own current and future viewpoints:

  • Create, import, edit, manage, compare dimensions, hierarchies, and attributes.


  • Address all line item dimensions required for business intelligence and performance management (chart of accounts, cost center, product etc).


  • Employ reusable lists and dynamic hierarchies.


  • Assemble multiple hierarchies, current and future views, and versions.


  • Notify interested parties by role as changes occur.

Govern and Collaborate

Replace manual, error-prone efforts with fully transparent, automated, and auditable processes:

  • Collaborate through multi-user contribution and multi-step, multi-user workflow.


  • Audit who makes changes and what changes are made.


  • Apply version control with ability to roll back.


  • Assign security for dimensions, users, and user roles.


  • Review lineage of maintenance history back to the source.


  • Retain all work in central dimension store.

Share and Synchronize

Share approved viewpoints across the decision-making process and systems:

  • Selectively publish changes, or provide subscription services, to authorized applications.


  • Leverage pre-built integration across Cognos performance management system (business intelligence, planning, etc.)


  • Open API and Web services for third parties.

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