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Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is the only BI

Business Intelligence Capabilities


Reporting A single, adaptive authoring environment for the full range of reports.

product to deliver the complete range of BI capabilities: reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, business event management as well as data integration, on a single, proven architecture. Easy to integrate, deploy and use, Cognos 8 BI delivers a simplified BI environment that improves user adoption, enables better decision-making, and serves as an enterprise-scale foundation for performance management.

Create managed business reports, production reports, dashboards, and ad hoc queries. Report against all operational systems, OLAP, and relational data sources. Publish reports in all desired formats: Email, HTML, PDF, Microsoft Excel, CSV, and XML. Offload IT effort and reduce reporting backlog through drag-and-drop formatting and user selfservice. Support for Unicode addresses multilingual reporting needs. Proven scalability to hundreds of thousands of users.

Work with information your way


Cognos 8 BI supplies the complete range of information and capabilities you need to support your decisions and guide your work day.

Stay connected: Use managed reports, scorecards, dashboards, and alerts. Find the answers: Build reports and queries to address your questions. Explore trends: Perform in-depth, comparative analysis.

Dashboards Deliver information from different sources in a single visual report.

Business intelligence that fits your role

Information you need: Depending on your job, you may need regular reports, vital signs at-a-glance, up-to-date reports, or the ability to dive more deeply into information. Use information the way you want. Presented for you: Get the portal and UI that fits your needs, rather than a generic one for highly technical users. Better collaboration: Everyone using the same system and common data increases collaboration across roles and functions.

Provide an at-a-glance snapshot of business performance. Shorten time to decisions with multi-object performance reports, maps, charts, scorecards, lists, and interactive OLAP analysis. Create personalized information centers to monitor performance. Connect dashboard elements with underlying data for further reporting and analysis. Support management methodologies such as Six Sigma.

See all the data you need

Complete access to your data: Connect systems such as operations, resources, customers, and finance to deliver a common business view of your data and answer all your questions. Data consistency: Gain a single business view of your corporate data. Be confident that you and your colleagues are working with the same numbers. Reduce your time to action: Unite your corporate data, so departments, divisions, and business units can easily share information from different sources. Spend less time gathering information or reconciling incompatible data.

Copyright 2006 Cognos Incorporated corporate performance management business intelligence, enterprise planning and balanced scorecard

Business event management Automate the detection and management of important business events.

Monitor operational systems to detect business process events. Set alerts and deliver time-critical information to decision-makers across departments and locations. Reduce time-to-action and enable fact-based issue resolution. Manage events throughout their lifecycle until they are resolved

Analysis Data integration Explore and analyze large volumes of data with fast and predictable response times. With extract, transform, and load (ETL) capability, deliver a data warehouse ready for analysis and reporting.

Analyze all data, using OLAP or dimensionally aware relational sources. Perform deep comparative analysis of business performance across multiple dimensions (time, product, customer, etc.). Analyze large, complex data sets with an easy-touse, drag-and drop user interface, pivoting, and filtering.

Built on a dimensional framework to provide information based on the way business users think. Optimized for Cognos 8 BI capabilities. Lets you leverage and enhance your investments in third-party tools.

Scorecarding Link initiatives to strategy with metrics and strategy maps.

At-a-glance view of performance against targets. Ensure accountability by linking metrics to owners. Understand performance trends with direct access to reports and analysis. Out-of-the-box initiative tracking to manage corrective actions. Use metric data to drive your enterprise planning for integrated performance management.

Copyright 2006 Cognos Incorporated corporate performance management business intelligence, enterprise planning and balanced scorecard

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