IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence Capabilities


Reporting

A single, adaptive authoring environment for the full range of reports.

  • Create managed business reports, production reports, dashboards, and ad hoc queries.
  • Report against all operational systems, OLAP, and relational data sources.
  • Publish reports in all desired formats: Email, HTML, PDF, Microsoft Excel, CSV, and XML.
  • Offload IT effort and reduce reporting backlog through drag-and-drop formatting and user self-service.
  • Support for Unicode addresses multilingual reporting needs.
  • Proven scalability to hundreds of thousands of users.

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Analysis

Explore and analyze large volumes of data with fast and predictable response times.

  • Analyze all data, using OLAP or dimensionally aware relational sources.
  • Perform deep comparative analysis of business performance across multiple dimensions (time, product, customer, etc.).
  • Analyze large, complex data sets with an easy-to-use, drag-and drop user interface, pivoting, and filtering.

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Scorecarding

Link initiatives to strategy with metrics and strategy maps.

  • At-a-glance view of performance against targets.
  • Ensure accountability by linking metrics to owners.
  • Understand performance trends with direct access to reports and analysis.
  • Out-of-the-box initiative tracking to manage corrective actions.
  • Use metric data to drive your enterprise planning for integrated performance management.

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Dashboards

Deliver information from different sources in a single visual report.

  • Provide an at-a-glance snapshot of business performance.
  • Shorten time to decisions with multi-object performance reports, maps, charts, scorecards, lists, and interactive OLAP analysis.
  • Create personalized information centers to monitor performance.
  • Connect dashboard elements with underlying data for further reporting and analysis.
  • Support management methodologies such as Six Sigma.

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