Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

Analysis

Analysis is a key capability within Cognos 8 Business Intelligence, a single product that provides complete BI capabilities on a proven architecture.

Analysis enables the guided exploration and analysis of information that pertains to all dimensions of your business-regardless of where the data is stored. Analyze and report against online analytical processing (OLAP) and dimensionally aware relational sources.Analyze what's driving your business with data organized in logical categories such as fiscal periods, sales regions, and product groups.

• Move from summary level to transaction level detail, or from one PowerCube to another until you find the information you are looking for.
• Sophisticated time trending with built-in customizable time series analysis lets you analyze what has changed over previous years, quarters, months, and other critical measures. No other vendor provides as sophisticated a time trending capability as Cognos.

Easy to use

• Explore large complex data sets using drag-and-drop techniques. Drill down through increasing levels of detail, and view by different dimensions such as sales per region or by product.
• View and analyze data relationships graphically and change displays easily. Industry-leading functionality means end-users can easily drill down, slice and dice, rank, sort, forecast, and nest information to gain greater insight into trends, causes, and effects.
• A common XML-based report format means that a report can be opened in whatever client suits a user’s needs.
• User-friendly interface makes multidimensional analysis simple for all users, regardless of their business or technical level.
• The Windows, Web, and Excel clients mean that users can work within a familiar environment—maximizing ROI and decreasing training costs.
• Import and manipulate BI content in MS Office.  

Easy to deploy

• Convert one billion consolidated rows and two million categories from multiple data sources into compact PowerCubes ready for analysis.
• Through the Cognos open data strategy, analysis supports all widely used OLAP data sources as well as dimensionally aware relational sources.
• Seamless integration with third-party cubes and OLAP servers lets you maximize return on Oracle, Microsoft,SAP BW, and IBM resources you already own; as well as dimensionally modeled relational sources.
• Cognos analysis processes and summarizes data in the application layer and only returns results at a summary level, conserving bandwidth and optimizing network efficiency.
• Competing solutions cannot scale cubes as large as ours, and may require database design and additional programming to achieve adequate performance.
• Superior multidimensional modeling capabilities, with support for all data sources, comprehensive logging and check points, automated cube builds, and centralized security and administration provide optimal manageability for IT.
• Advanced multidimensional modeling, time-dependant processing, alternate drill paths, distinct category counts, and time-based partitioned PowerCubes create a flexible design environment that streamlines development and enhances ROI