Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

Value for IT: Leverage All Corporate Data 

Cognos 8 BI provides heterogeneous data access, data management, and centralized metadata to create a consistent business view of your data, improve collaboration, and accelerate time to results. 

Data from any source

Cognos 8 BI delivers a flexible, cost-effective framework for uniting all of your corporate data to drive business performance.

• Access any data including relational, OLAP, flat files, XML, and ERP.
• Leverage any data infrastructure, whatever range of complexity.  

Centralized metadata

The Cognos 8 BI metadata model provides a common set of business rules, dimensions, and calculations to provide a complete and consistent view of your data.

• Users can explore any aspect of the data, knowing that all of the information comes from the same place.
• Users are shielded from underlying data complexities.  

Direct access

Leverage information directly from data sources and tools that are already in place, including OLAP and dimensionally modeled relational sources. 

EII

Access multiple disparate data sources in batch, historic, or real time. Use either the Cognos 8 BI built-in Enterprise Information Integration (EII) capability or leverage third-party integration technologies.

• Lets you collect and integrate distributed data without data latency or migration.
• Ensures high performance and sophisticated caching when you require a single view of data sourced from multiple systems including XML, JDBC, WSDL, LDAP, and Web services.
• Optimizes query processing across your data.  

ETL

Cognos 8 BI data integration provides extract, transform, and load (ETL) capability to deliver a consolidated dimensional view 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. For example, the Cognos relationship with IBM includes support for DB2 UDB, Informix, Oracle, SQL Server, XML, email, CRM, and portal applications.