Cognos

All Capabilities. One Product. One Platform.

IBM® Cognos® 8 BI delivers the complete range of BI capabilities on a single service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Cognos is a global provider of business intelligence (BI) and performance planning software for the enterprise. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, Cognos helps customers improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Cognos solutions Provide the capabilities and information you need to make better decisions. Use reports, analysis, dashboards and scorecards to monitor business performance, analyze trends and measure results. A service-oriented architecture makes it easy to deploy and manage.

• Build reports, OLAP cubes, dashboards and scorecards using all data sources
• Proven scalability to hundreds of thousands of users
• Modular deployment lets you meet immediate user needs and expand or modify as needed

Cognos BI suite includes:

• Reporting: Write and deliver any type of report, adaptable to any data source, quickly and easily
• Scorecarding: Build scorecards to align teams and tactics with strategy
• Dashboards: Build dashboards to visualize and analyze your asset performance
• Extend BI: Increase BI’s reach and user adoption rates through search, mobile access, and more.

Reporting Studio

With the Cognos capability, you can personalize the style and quality of reporting, and BI delivered to your all users. It can cater to the needs of executives, managers, business analysts and shop floor users.

New features Cognos 8:

• Increased visual appeal includes new background designs and colors. Users can add gradient colors and behind charts
• IBM Cognos 8 v4 New chart types: Merimekko, Stepline, Sparkline, Sparkbar, Spark Win/Loss
• Report annotations: Users can add comments directly within the body of HTML-rendered reports
• Extended filters now include wildcards, range, and between operations
• Associated frames now drill together
• Strategy Maps and Impact Diagrams now available as portlets that can be integrated into IBM Cognos Connection, IBM WebSphere, and MS Sharepoint portals
• Data lineage: Users can access and view major transformations to data as it moves through
• Expanded data access: Use data from IBM Cognos Now! and IBM Cognos TM1

PowerPlay

Analysis enables the guided exploration of information that pertains to all dimensions of your business, regardless of where the data is stored. Analyze and report against online analytical processing (OLAP) and dimensionally aware relational sources. Show me a demo of IBM Cognos 8 BI Analysis.

For those who want to explore and perform multidimensional analysis on IBM Cognos 8 BI data in their spreadsheet, there is IBM Cognos 8 BI Analysis for Microsoft Excel®. With the analysis capability, you can personalize the style and quality of BI delivered to your key stakeholders; and you expand the community of BI users.

Dashboard

Business dashboards communicate complex information quickly. They translate information from your various corporate systems and data into visually rich presentations using gauges, maps, charts and other graphical elements to show multiple results together.

IBM® Cognos® 8 BI delivers the full range of dashboards—operational, tactical, strategic—to help you monitor, measure and manage corporate performance.

You can deploy dashboards as a standalone application or as a core element of an enterprise business intelligence or performance management platform.