Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

Value for Business: See All the Data You Need

Gain complete access to your data

Cognos 8 BI connects your disparate systems to deliver a common business view of your data—from operations and resources to customers and finance. This allows you to quickly find answers, extract business-critical information, and stay connected to what's happening in your organization.

Cognos 8 BI eliminates the common barriers to information:

• No more calling up other departments to access different systems when researching new business initiatives or reporting on cross-divisional activities.
• No more hearing from IT that they can't deliver the report you need.
• No more missing out on business opportunities because you can't find the right data or because your reporting tool can't access a particular data source. 
   

Ensure data consistency

Cognos 8 BI delivers a complete and consistent view of your corporate data, so you can be confident that you and your colleagues are working with a common set of numbers. It provides access to the same information—no matter what kind of underlying data exists—to improve both collaboration and decision-making.

With Cognos 8 BI, you no longer have to spend time trying to reconcile incompatible data before deciding what to do.
 

Reduce the time to action

Cognos 8 BI unites your corporate data, so departments, divisions, and business units can quickly share cross-source information. With consolidated data, you can easily pull together cross-functional reports or do corporate-wide analysis. You spend less time gathering information and more time on strategic initiatives and improving business performance.