IBM Cognos 8 platform
Complete business view based on a modern SOA
The IBM Cognos 8 platform is the common foundation for data access, system management, and information delivery that underpins IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and other IBM Cognos performance management products. The IBM Cognos 8 platform provides:
- Complete, consistent access to information the business can understand, own, and trust.
- Broad system management for IT to deploy, manage, and scale with confidence to meet service commitments.
- Modern service-oriented architecture (SOA) to leverage your infrastructure, adapt to change, and embrace open standards for long-term use and growth.
Complete, consistent access to information for the business
- Open data access. A single query engine and choice of sourcing strategies provides complete access to all of your data sources.
- Consistent information. Deliver a "model once/deploy anywhere" common business view, available in any language. Publish and secure corporate information so users only access information pertinent to them but share the common view.
- Data quality. Deliver data the business trusts by systematically applying data quality business rules as you identify, quantify, and resolve any issues.
- Optimized modeling. Teams of modelers can use built-in proven practices to build optimal, multi-tier models. IT can insulate business users from grappling with modeling complexity while managing changes in the system or demand.
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Broad system management for IT to deploy, manage, and scale
- Enterprise-scale. Broadly deploy software without requiring end-user downloads. Benefit from built-in fault tolerance, a predictable and linear response, and comprehensive security.
- Complete view of system activity. Administrators gain a complete view of system activity and access to hundreds of system metrics and thresholds. Improve performance by taking action before problems affect your end users.
- Streamline environment changes. Upgrade Manager lets you test, compare, and summarize report results between two application environments (e.g., new and older versions of IBM Cognos 8 BI).
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Modern service-oriented architecture (SOA)
- Leverage standards today & forward. The IBM Cognos 8 platform is built on a modern service-oriented architecture, based on open standards, and is completely environment neutral.
- Flexible infrastructure. The IBM Cognos 8 platform can scale up or out as needed with peer-to-peer services connected from anywhere on the network.
- Embed and extend BI in your applications. Customers, partners, and IBM Cognos consultants can innovate and customize your performance management applications due to the SOA-based IBM Cognos 8 platform and its purpose-built services. The single, open API gives you full access to functionality so you can embed performance management capabilities into other applications.
NEW! Announcing beta program for IBM Cognos 8 BI for System z
Learn more: IBM Cognos 8 platform architecture
Additional Resources:
Full Demo: IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Online Demo
Complete capabilities in one product, on a single architecture. See key features for both business and IT users, including Framework Manager, the Administration Console, and integration with Microsoft Excel.
IBM Cognos 8 Data Manager: Data integration for the last mile to BI
White Paper
An accessible, consistent and resilient solution in IBM Cognos 8 Data Manager. See key features, including dimensional frameworks, hierarchy management and programmability.
Business Glossary and Data Lineage
Online Demo
See key business definitions and data transformations within your reports.
How IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence meets the needs of financial and business analysts
Issue Paper
Updated capability with IBM Cognos 8 BI version 8.4. Enhanced reporting and analysis tools from a trusted source means better, more informed financial and business decisions.
IBM Cognos 8 Framework Manager
Online Demo
Metadata modeling. See how to build a single model for different reports. Define relationships, apply filters and security, and manage dimensions.
Service-oriented Architecture (SOA): the foundation for enterprise business intelligence White Paper
White Paper
Learn how the SOA underlying the IBM Cognos 8 platform has helped customers achieve their business goals.
Integrating, Modeling, and Managing Data to Drive Performance
White Paper
Describes the capabilities of the IBM Cognos 8 Platform that provide business with consistent access to information that they understand, own, and can trust to drive higher performance.
Better System Management: Build expertise in managing your BI environment
White Paper
Maximizing investments with the IBM Cognos 8 BI platform and a System Management Methodology. Proactive administration and strategic value in a single architecture.
