Cognos 8 Business Intelligence offers reporting, query, and analysis; dashboards and scorecarding; business event management; and the unifying power of centralized metadata in one product, on a single, proven service oriented architecture. Cognos 8 delivers all of these capabilities through a 100 percent Web browser interface for all users.
The promise of business intelligence is all users readily accessing all of their data, in any way they want; and to understand what is happening, why, and determine what actions they should take to help the organization succeed.
This is the Cognos vision for business Intelligence. This vision is made possible with Cognos 8 Business Intelligence - simple, complete, and proven business intelligence.
Business Intelligence Reporting
Create any type of report, for any user, with any data.
- Covers the complete range of reporting needs – managed, production, ad hoc, personalized, all from multiple data sources, giving the user the information they need, when they need it and in the format the user want it (email, Microsoft Excel, HTML, PDF, CSV or XML)
- Drag-and-drop data elements, formatting, and selection extends self-services report authoring to users, offloads IT requirements, and reduces the reporting backlog.
- Single, zero-footprint and adaptive authoring interface for reports and dashboards.
- Drill-through and drill-down automatically built-in.
- Build a report once and deploy in any language.
Business Intelligence Analysis
Explore and analyze large volumes of data covering all dimensions of the business. Whether stored in OLAP or dimensionally aware relational sources.
- Analyze large data sets with easy-to-use, drag-and-drop user interface
- Compare performance to see trends over time
- Pursue business questions through analysis and exploration with fast and predictable response times.
- Powerful, yet easy-to-use comparatives analysis, lets you see performance outliners, such as most and least effective suppliers, in one view.
Business Intelligence Scorecarding
Link initiatives and projects to strategy with metrics and strategy maps. User the same scorecard metrics to drive enterprise planning for integrated performance management.
- Easily see and track the status of key performance indicators and initiatives.
- Understand the root cause of performance issues.
- Scorecards and metrics use the same single meta-data model that drives analysis and reporting.
- Attached reports and analysis to get the information underpinning metrics and understand what drives performance.
- Link metrics to owners to help drive accountability.
- Support Balanced Scorecard or other scorecarding approaches
Business Intelligence Dashboard
Delivery web-based dashboards with information from difference data sources in a single visual report. Provide an at-a-glance snapshot of the business
- Cut the time to decision with multi-object performance reports, maps, charts, scorecards, and interactive OLAP analysis coordinated in a single view.
- Set up personalized information centers to monitor performance.
- Connect dashboard elements with underlying data for further context and analysis
- Support various management methodologies.
Business Intelligence Business Event Management
Automate the detection, management and alerting of important business event to ensure swift response and resolution of operational issues.
- Linked different parts of the organization together for enterprise-wide event management.
- Compress the time to action and resolution.
- Define compound events and task using event conditions.
- Manage event in context
- Use both decision-based and business process issues resolution.
- Track critical events.
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