IBM COGNOS Business Intelligence

Smarter Decisions. Better Results.

With the ability to interact, search and assemble all perspectives of your business, Cognos Business Intelligence provides a limitless BI workspace to support how people think and work. It delivers the complete range of BI capabilities: query and reporting, analysis, dashboarding and scorecarding on a single, service-oriented architecture (SOA). And it expands traditional business intelligence (BI) with planning, scenario modeling, real-time monitoring, collaboration and predictive analytics, to extend your BI capabilities.

Features and benefits include:

Query and Reporting capabilities ensure users are equipped with the information they need to make fact-based decisions in a system that’s simpler, faster and easier to manage.

Analysis capabilities allows all users to explore information easily and intuitively to drive better, smarter business decisions. General business users who can easily view, assemble and analyze the information required to make smarter decisions and business and financial analysts can evaluate more advanced, predictive or what-if analysis capabilities.

 Dashboarding capabilities allow any user to access, interact and personalize content in a way that supports the unique way they make decisions. You can gain a secure access to information from all time horizons including Business Intelligence, Real-time Monitoring, SPSS and Cognos TM1 for quicker and better decision making.

Scorecarding capabilities enable organizations to capture corporate strategy and communicate that strategy at the operational level. It helps executives and managers provide quantifiable goals and targets and allow them to track performance across business units, operating subsidiaries and geographic regions to quickly identify the areas that need attention.

Real-time Monitoring capabilities for consumers of actionable business intelligence. It provides an organization’s frontline employees with a rich view of operational KPIs and measures to support up-to the-moment decision making.

Statistics capabilities, powered by IBM SPSS Statistics Engine, make it easy to incorporate statistical results with core business reporting, reducing the time it takes to analyze data and prepare business presentations based on that analysis.

Extending BI empowers users across your organization with the business intelligence (BI) they need to make to make effective, fact-based decisions. Cognos Business Intelligence provides solutions to ensure users have consistent, trusted and relevant BI, when, where and how they need it, with Cognos Mobile, Cognos Active Report, Cognos for Microsoft Office and Cognos Mashup Service.

Collaborative BI capabilities facilitate decision-making for groups and teams. With this solution, users can build stronger relationships and learn from history with a centralized, searchable corporate memory. Cognos Collaboration helps teams maximize their efficiency and ensure the most effective use of resources when making important decisions.

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