Business Intelligence Standardization

Overview

Cognos customers and leading analyst firms such as Gartner confirm the value of standardizing your business intelligence and reporting.

Standardization delivers tangible and proven benefits to your business:

Increase your agility and responsiveness

• Spend less time evaluating software; spend more time creating value.
• Create new reports or modify existing ones quickly and easily.
• Meet the needs of all your users, regardless of their needs or skill level.
• Add new capabilities easily for ongoing incremental value.
  

Reduce your total cost of ownership

• Fewer products to learn and use means greater business effectiveness and lower costs.
• Fewer products to integrate into your IT environment increases speed and lowers costs.
• Fewer products to install, maintain, and support reduces costs.

Create a foundation for driving performance

• Deliver the important single version of the truth necessary for consistent decision-making.
• Create a common language for key technical and business terms: "catalog" vs. "model" vs. "universe".
• Communicate what happened and why.
  

Benefits and Value

Company features

• Stability—Proven track record with over 35 years in business.
• Leadership—Demonstrated by consistent placement in industry analyst leader quadrants and awards. 86 of the Fortune 100 choose Cognos.
• Innovation—Demonstrated by leading architectures and next-generation products such as Cognos reporting.
• Vision—Integrated technologies supporting corporate performance management.
  

Product set features

• Broad information coverage— Access all BI capabilities from a single product, on a single architecture. Production reporting, business reporting, ad hoc query, OLAP (data analysis), dashboards, scorecarding, business event management, as well as data integration.
• Built for every user— Task-based user interface and seamless, guided access to all BI capabilities makes Cognos 8 BI the standard everyone can use.
• See all relevant information— One product delivers a flexible, cost-effective framework with centralized metadata for uniting multiple ERP vendors and data sources: relational, OLAP, flat files, XML, and more.
• Modern, service-oriented architectures— All BI capabilities available with a Web service-based architecture.
• Scalability— The underlying server technology supports the performance and scalability requirements of business users.
• Globally capability— Deploy Cognos business intelligence in your employees' working language.
• Security— Leverage and support your existing enterprise security.
• Ease-of-use— Cognos offers a user-friendly solution and will support your IT group in a way that helps sell that value.