Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

Value for IT: Deliver All BI Capabilities

Reporting

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

• 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 self-service.
• Support for Unicode addresses multilingual reporting needs.
• Proven scalability to hundreds of thousands of users.

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Analysis

Explore and analyze large volumes of data with fast and predictable response times.

• 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-to-use, drag-and drop user interface, pivoting, and filtering.

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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 for integrated performance management.

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Dashboards

Deliver information from different sources in a single visual report.

• 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.

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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.

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Data integration

With extract, transform, and load (ETL) capability, deliver a data warehouse ready for analysis and reporting.

• 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.

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