Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Value for IT: Serve All Your Users
Deliver business intelligence that adapts to your users' needs:
BI consumers
Representing the majority of enterprise users, this group also includes BI recipients who require little or no interactivity with the reports they use
- Access to regularly distributed reports.
- Clear data presented the way they need to see it.
- Secure remote access.
Cognos 8 BI delivers:
- Pixel-perfect report bursting to the consumer desktop.
- Personal viewing preferences for language, time zone, currency, etc.
- Secure Web portal access to business intelligence that recognizes and adapts to mobile devices.
Executives
Your organizational leaders function as BI consumers with some unique needs reflecting the strategic perspectives they require.
- At-a-glance awareness of organizational health.
- Regular updates and status alerts on their areas of responsibility.
- Secure access to business information from anywhere.
Cognos 8 BI delivers:
- Business dashboards for quick communication of complex data, and scorecards that track progress against individual objectives.
- Scheduled reports delivered to their desktops, and event notifications delivered anywhere to help organizations respond quickly and uniformly.
- A secure BI Web portal with 168-bit encryption and 24/7 availability.
Business managers
Representing one quarter of the average enterprise, business managers have a wider range of responsibilities demanding a wider range of self-serve access to different business intelligence capabilities.
- Drillable business information that offers the detail, context, and the 'why' behind the numbers.
- Basic BI authoring that is easy to use.
- Occasional ad hoc queries, OLAP analysis, and metrics management.
Cognos 8 BI delivers:
- A familiar, self-serve working environment for all BI capabilities.
- Drag-and-drop BI authoring in the same zero-footprint interface.
- Automatic translation for distributed BI.
Professional authors
Also known as 'power users', professional authors are the traditional target of most BI software. The advanced BI capabilities required by these users include:
- High-volume BI distribution.
- The full range of BI elements and output types.
- High-speed data trending over time.
- Sub-second response times for exploring large volumes of data.
Cognos 8 BI delivers:
- Multi-page, multi-query, high volume bursting via email or portals.
- Queries run against multiple relational and dimensional data sources for display in a single report.
- BI content elements including: charts, maps, crosstabs, 3D bar, pie line, gauge, funnel, scatter, dot density, waterfall, and live applications.
IT administrators
From information architects to Help Desk, supporting BI users requires:
- The full range of BI functionality for you, and control over functionality of others.
- Self-service BI for all your users.
- Low-maintenance BI that takes advantage of your existing infrastructure.
Cognos 8 BI delivers:
- Centralized metadata on a single layer.
- A zero-footprint, browser-based environment.
- Access to all common relational and OLAP data sources.
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