Business Intelligence Extranets

Overview

Companies and organizations worldwide extend Cognos reports, scorecards, and other BI information through extranets to customers, suppliers, partners, and other stakeholders.

This seamless collaboration helps them improve performance through:

• Universally accessible information.
• Value-added e-commerce opportunities.
• Stronger relationships up and down the value chain.
• Reduced costs with user self-service and lower support costs.
• Easy deployment through a browser-based, zero-footprint user interface. No plug-ins to download or manage.

Benefits and Value

Cognos offers the industry's most comprehensive suite of business intelligence capabilities. Using our zero-footprint, browser-based BI for your extranet delivers:

• Unmatched scalability — support for multiple platforms and servers means you can easily scale to support thousands of users.
• Predictable performance — years of testing, thousands of real-life implementations, and published benchmarks promise reliability and availability.
• Openness — our open architecture employs XML to extend and integrate services, applications, and environments.
• Centralized administration — IT can configure, deploy, modify, and maintain all Cognos tools from one central location.
• Leverage your existing security — enable secure information transactions within the firewall and beyond to Internet and extranet deployments.
• Seamless information delivery — compress event-to-action response times through event notification and efficient email and portal information delivery.
• Lowest Cost of Ownership — all of these factors, combined with high user adoption rates, equals faster return on investment and the lowest total cost of ownership for your organization.

Extend reports, plans, and scorecards to internal and external audiences to make better decisions and increase your competitive advantage.