Business Intelligence for Oracle (PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Seibel)
Overview
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence integrates with your Oracle and PeopleSoft databases, gateways, and applications. Use it to deliver powerful reports, analysis, scorecards, and financial plans to people throughout your organization.
Key integration points
- Native (SQLNET), ODBC, and JDBC connectivity.
- Centralized metadata environment imports Oracle metadata from Oracle Designer.
- Support for Real Application Clustering for efficient databases and fail-over protection.
- Support for industry-standard SQL99 functions.
- Leverage Oracle security with no need for redundancies or duplications.
- Cognos Performance Applications contain pre-built connections to the Oracle e-Business Suite.
Advantages for developers
- Support for Oracle Application Server 10g.
- Use Oracle-specific functions and calculations in the authoring environment.
- Use Oracle OLAP when exposed as a view and leverage Oracle dimensionality for ad hoc query.
- Publish reports through Oracle portlets.
- Software development kit and fully documented API.
- API exposed as WSDL for customization using the
Oracle J-Developer Suite.
Cognos ia a certified partner in Oracle's Partner Network (OPN) and a participant in the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG).
Leverage other data sources
Unlike most ERP vendors, Cognos lets you access, analyze, and report on any kind of data, regardless of location or format.
You can consolidate data from different sources across your organization using data integration to create a unified view of your performance. These sources can include: ERP data: PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle
Use Cognos 8 Business Intelligence to build on your existing capabilities in these Oracle/PeopleSoft solution areas:
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Human Capital Management (HCM)
- Supply Chain Management (SCM)
- Customer Profitability
- Supplier Effectiveness
- Employee Potential
- Financial Management
- Sales Management
- Real Estate/Property Management
- Inventory
- Manufacturing Management
- Advanced Cost Accounting
- Procurement
- Spend
- WorkforceCertified by PeopleSoft
Cognos is a PeopleSoft Certified Software Partner. Our software can help you increase the value of these PeopleSoft product families:
- PeopleSoft Enterprise
- PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)
- JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
- JD Edwards World
Integration Points
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence leverages Oracle-PeopleSoft metadata and security for seamless integration with your existing applications and data. Cognos works with more than 2600 PeopleSoft customers.
- Cognos metadata models can span for the full spectrum EPM.
- Deploy Cognos 8 BI directly against your EPM implementation for easy ad hoc and production reporting, analysis, Scorecarding and Dashboarding as well as business event management.
- Immediate analysis and publishing of PeopleSoft metadata and column/row security.
- Hide PeopleSoft complexity with a presentation layer that uses familiar business terms.
- Extend the Cognos metadata model to support additional customization, multilingual deployments, or connectivity to other data sources. Or reuse PeopleSoft metadata and security across all Cognos BI capabilities.
- Cognos Performance Applications contain pre-built connections to the Oracle e-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards Applications, and provide pre-built analytics, reports, and metrics.
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