IBM COGNOS Express

IBM Cognos® Express is the only integrated business intelligence (BI) and planning solution purpose-built to meet the needs of midsize companies. It delivers the essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that midsize companies need at a price they can afford. Everything is included in a pre-configured solution that is easy to install, easy to use and easy to buy.

Cognos Express Reporter -Self-service reporting software & ad hoc query

IBM Cognos Express Reporter empowers business users to access, modify or create reports quickly and easily. It meets all of your reporting needs with a self-service design that helps reduce the cost and time needed to share information throughout an organization.

• Delivers the full breadth of reporting capabilities, including financial, production, operational, transactional, managed or ad hoc reports.
• Provides a complete, consistent view of information throughout a company so users work with the same accurate data at all times.
• Offers flexible reporting capabilities and access to all corporate data in any combination for comprehensive, accurate reporting.
• Has simple, intuitive, drag-and-drop authoring capabilities for self-service reporting by any user.

Cognos Express Advisor - Analysis software & visualization

IBM Cognos Express Advisor gives business users and analysts at midsize companies the ability to quickly analyze complex data and easily share business insights with high-impact visualization. Its write-back capabilities enable users to take immediate action for the most effective business outcomes.

• Includes a fast and powerful in-memory analytics server that quickly connects to operational data sources and creates a dimensional view of your business.
• Uses simple drill-down and drill-up capabilities and flexible graphic displays for quick analysis of key areas, such as customers, products and geographies.
• Includes high-impact visualizations and charts, including bar, line, area, pie, radar, bubble, scatter and range charts and graphs, plus geo maps, dial indicators and heat/performance maps.
• Offers self-service access to analytics for all users through an intuitive Web-based interface.
• Produces powerful dashboards that can be created quickly and shared instantly throughout the organization.

Cognos Express Xcelerator - Excel-based business analysis & optimization software

IBM Cognos Express Xcelerator extends and transforms the Microsoft Excel front-end with a powerful in-memory analytics engine. It's perfectly suited for multidimensional business analysis and "what-if" scenario modeling, enabling a new level of insight and action for better business outcomes.

• Transform Excel to quickly deliver powerful multidimensional business analysis based on trusted information.
• Build and test business scenarios with powerful “what-if” modeling.
• Take advantage of existing Excel skills and investments while overcoming the risks and limitations of spreadsheet-only processes.
• Update plans immediately using write-back capabilities to align the right resources to capitalize on new opportunities.
• Eliminate data silos and inconsistencies throughout the organization with centrally managed data, business hierarchies, rules and calculations.

Cognos Express Planner - Planning, budgeting & forecasting software

IBM Cognos Express Planner transforms a company’s planning processes, enabling business users to react quickly to changing business conditions. It replaces slow, cumbersome manual planning processes with automated daily, weekly or monthly planning tools using the latest, accurate data.

• Provides a flexible, structured planning process that is easy to deploy and use.
• Blends a managed workflow with personalized analysis for improved business agility.
• Provides an easy-to-use, Web-based interface for finance and non-finance users to contribute plan data and view current plans with no “coding” skills required.
• Enables managers to monitor the status of every participant in the planning process to assess the maturity of the planning cycle and eliminate delays in adapting plans.
• Handles large numbers of contributors using an in-memory analytics server for real-time processing.

Each module can be used as separately or combined to create an integrated BI and planning solution purpose-built for midsize companies.

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