IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Dashboard

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Dashboard extends the value of the proven IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence architecture by letting business users build and edit dyanmic, interactive dashboards using a simple drag-and-drop interface.

Dynamic business intelligence

• Flash-based graphics let you build attractive, interactive dashboards quickly.
• Client-side data capture gives you near-instant response times to repeated queries and layout changes.

Personalized information

• Drag-and drop-interface lets you create dashboards on the fly; no need to wait for IT or search for existing content.
• Modular report creation lets you build dashboards using existing report elements.

Trusted data source

• Build your dashboards using trusted Cognos information.
• Use existing report elements for complete, consistent view of results.

Extensible environment

• Bring external information into your business with RSS feeds and widgets.
• Integrate your dashboard into third-party portals.

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IBM Cognos 8 Go! Dashboard

Online Demo

See how to personalize your business intelligence with a drag-and-drop Flash interface. Change display types, add sliders, and more.

Visual Pattern Recognition: Meaningful Patterns in Quantitative Business Information

White Paper

Bar chart or line graph? This paper examines the data patterns and relationships common in most business reports and provides practical guidelines for communicating these relationships effectively using points, lines, and bars. Part 2 of a 3-part series by Stephen Few.

Visual Communication: Core Design Principles for Displaying Quantitative Information

White Paper

Learn to build reports that communicate more clearly, based on the latest research into perception and understanding. Part 1 of a 3-part series by Stephen Few

Data Visualization: Past, Present, and future

White Paper

Spanning more than 2,000 years of recorded human history, this paper examines the birth and evolution of data visualization, from early Egyptian tables used to organize astronomical information through to bar charts, treemaps, and geo-spatial visualization tools (such as Google Earth). Part 3 of a 3-part series by Stephen Few

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.

Picturing Performance Dashboards and Scorecards with IBM Cognos software

White Paper

This white paper outlines the three types of dashboards (operational, tactical, strategic) as described by TDWI's Wayne Eckerson and illustrates how to build them using IBM Cognos Now! and IBM Cognos 8 BI. Explains the role of dashboarding in a performance management deployment. Illustrations.

BIScorecard - Suite Integration Analyst Report

Analyst Report

Cobbled together products or one BI platform: how deep does suite integration really go?

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