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Extend BI: IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search

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IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search enables everyday users to find reports, scorecards, and other content created in IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence.

Increase business intelligence adoption rates

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search belongs to the IBM Cognos 8 Go! family of consumer modes designed to help you increase business intelligence user adoption rates within your organization.

These consumer modes let users view and consume BI content using familiar applications or devices, such as a BlackBerry®, search engine, MS Office application, or Web browser.

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search provides users with a familiar, browser-based search bar, sophisticated ranking of results, and the ability to easily fine-tune those results.

New features in version 8.4

• Search assisted authoring provides a head start to create queries for further refinement.
• Search assisted exploration gives users a launching point for further analysis.
• Full content search includes structured and unstructured information including report annotations.
• Dynamic report creation based on search keywords.
• Integration with third-party portals.

Value for business users

• Easy search: Search full data content of reports, as well as titles, descriptions, and metadata layers. Boolean logic, phrases, and word stemming helps users fine-tune search terms and eliminate ambiguity.
• Most relevant data: Sophisticated ranking and contextual support of search criteria delivers the most relevant data. Customers can find related BI information from directly within reports using contextual search prompts.
• Fast results: IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search fully indexes existing BI content and supports the ability to specify search criteria using industry-standard tips and tricks, helping users find the right information quickly.

Search relational, OLAP, and unstructured data

• Relational data sources supported by IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence.
• ERP data sources such as SAP BW, SAP R/3, and Siebel CRM.
• Unstructured and modern data sources available through the Composite Information Server.
• OLAP sources including IBM Cognos PowerCubes®, Microsoft Analysis Services, and IBM DB2 OLAP/Essbase.
• IBM Cognos 8 Planning and IBM Cognos Finance cubes.
• IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search indexes hierarchies, dimensions, categories, and measures.
• Metadata for reports or analyses built using IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence capabilities with OLAP data sources.

Make BI widely available to more people

Users can access IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search in five ways:

• Through the IBM Cognos Connection portal.
• Through third-party portals such as IBM Websphere and Plumtree.
• Through the IBM Cognos 8 Software Developer Kit (SDK).
• Through third-party enterprise search engines such as Autonomy IDOL Server, FAST ESP™, and Google OneBox for Enterprise.
• In any task-based interface within IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence.

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Increase the ROI from your BI investment

• Increase user self-service and reduce your report creation backlog.
• Reduce the creation of redundant reports, as users can easily find existing reports.
• Less workload, since IT will not need to create and maintain drill paths between related reports.
• A consistent security model. IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search is an integrated part of IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and uses the IBM Cognos 8 BI security model. Users will be only granted access to the reports, metrics, and analysis that they have been given permission to view.
• Built on open standards; can easily be integrated into any portal application.

Read the IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search Fact Sheet

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Analyst Report

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