IBM Cognos BI

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligencedelivers a comprehensive range of business intelligence capabilities. Users can author, share and use reports based on enterprise wide data sources for better decision making.

Reporting

  • Reporting gives you access to a complete list of self-serve report types, is adaptable to any data source, and operates from a single metadata layer for a variety of benefits such as multilingual reporting.
  • Customise the style of your BI delivery to key stakeholders and easily and quickly expand the group of recipients.
  • The UI supports over 10 languages and reports can be delivered in more than 25 languages.
  • Support for a variety of output formats: XLS, PDF, XML, HTML and CSV.
  • Distribute reports in a way that works for your organisation. Via centralized access, email, application integration or even to mobiles.
  • A single architecture for viewing, querying, analyzing, and authoring for collaborative contributions to any report including dashboards.
  • Reports can be written based on any heterogeneous data source.
  • Report development via the Web.

Dashboards

  • Provide business users at every level receive the information they need to make better decisions that improve business performance.
  • Communicate common business patterns and relationships: trends, rank, part-to-whole, deviation, correlation.
  • Wide array of chart types (bar, line, gauge, scatterplot, maps) let you match the data to the display.
  • Conditional formatting and exception highlighting draw users’ attention to sub-par results and areas that need immediate attention.
  • Aggregate data from disparate systems into a single view.
  • Drill-down / drill-through to reports and analysis for additional information and context.
  • Control when and how you receive critical information by creating personalized alerts, based on custom data conditions.
  • A single architecture for viewing, querying, analyzing, and authoring for collaborative contributions to any report or dashboard.
  • Global dashboard filters let users seamlessly orchestrate changes across multiple objects in a portal page.

Analysis

  • Perform complex analysis quickly and easily to get to the “why” behind an event or action to improve business performance.
  • Analyze what’s driving your business with data organized in logical categories such as fiscal periods, sales regions, and product groups.
  • Move from summary level to transaction level detail, or from one PowerCube™ to another to find exactly the information you are looking for.
  • Sophisticated time trending with built-in customizable time series lets you analyze what has changed over previous years, quarters, months, and other critical measures.

Scorecarding

  • Build and deploy scorecards quickly using wizards.
  • Scorecard and metric design tools reduce the time you need to create and deploy your system.
  • Use menus to define threshold ranges, benchmarks, data source definition, contact names, and URLs for contextual information.
  • Create strategy maps, impact analysis and cause-and-effect diagrams, and other elements of the Balanced Scorecard.

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Solutions

“Jag har en vision om att kunna följa konsoliderad data ner till transaktionsnivå. Med Addedos hjälp har vi kommit en bra bit i den visionen. Data från våra källssystem laddas till Cognos Controller och efter konsolideringen så kommer data skickas vidare för analys. Allt sker både snabbt och med automatik. Jag är väldigt nöjd med både Addedo och vår lösning.”

-Joakim Tuvner, CFO Pågen

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