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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