Business Intelligence Standardization

Benefits and Value

• Stability—Proven track record with over 35 years in business.
• Leadership—Demonstrated by consistent placement in industry analyst leader quadrants and awards. 86 of the Fortune 100 choose IBM Cognos software.
• Innovation—Demonstrated by leading architectures and next-generation products such as IBM Cognos reporting.
• Vision—Integrated technologies supporting corporate performance management.

• Broad information coverage— Access all BI capabilities from a single product, on a single architecture. Production reporting, business reporting, ad hoc query, OLAP (data analysis), dashboards, scorecarding, business event management, as well as data integration.
• Built for every user— Task-based user interface and seamless, guided access to all BI capabilities makes IBM Cognos 8 BI the standard everyone can use.
• See all relevant information— One product delivers a flexible, cost-effective framework with centralized metadata for uniting multiple ERP vendors and data sources: relational, OLAP, flat files, XML, and more.
• Modern, service-oriented architectures— All BI capabilities available with a Web service-based architecture.
• Scalability— The underlying server technology supports the performance and scalability requirements of business users.
• Global capability— Deploy IBM Cognos business intelligence in your employees' working language.
• Security— Leverage and support your existing enterprise security.
• Ease-of-use— IBM offers a user-friendly solution and will support your IT group in a way that helps sell that value.

More: Customers that have standardized with IBM Cognos solutions.

Additional Resources:

Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting: Simplify the IT Environment Reduce Your TCO Increase Your ROI.

White Paper

Read about the factors to consider in standardizing your BI, the importance of TCO, and why IBM Cognos 8 BI is the only choice for BI standardization.

IBM Cognos Performance Manager

Online Demo

See how plans, financial reports, and scorecards can help you manage performance across all data sources.

Full Promise of IBM Cognos 8 BI White Paper

White Paper

Read about the value of a Web Services architecture, how IBM Cognos 8 BI provides all capabilities to all users, and using all data, and how IBM Cognos 8 BI provides a foundation for performance management.

Fulfilling the Promise of Business Intelligence

Analyst Report

Read about the barriers that BI has faced in the past, and how IBM Cognos 8 BI overcomes them. With commentary from IBM Cognos 8 BI beta testers.

Bloor Research: Unification vs. Integration

Analyst Report

Read Philip Howard's views on the business and IT benefits of a unified BI platform.

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