Cognos

IBM Cognos®  BI delivers the complete range of BI capabilities – Reporting, Analysis, Dashboards, and Scorecards — on a single service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Author, share, and use reports that draw on data from all enterprise sources for better business decisions. Use reports, analysis, dashboards and scorecards to monitor business performance, analyze trends and measure results. A service-oriented architecture (SOA) makes it easy to deploy and manage.

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• Build reports, OLAP cubes, dashboards and scorecards using all data sources.
• Proven scalability to hundreds of thousands of users.
• Modular deployment lets you meet immediate user needs and expand or modify as needed.
• Reporting: Write and deliver any type of report, adaptable to any data source, quickly and easily.
• Analysis: Analyze and report against online analytical processing (OLAP) and dimensionally aware relational sources.
• Scorecarding: Build scorecards to align teams and tactics with strategy.
• Dashboards: Communicate complex information quickly with a range of easy-to-build dashboards.

Features and Benefits

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• Integrate and improve the quality and accessibility of data and content
• Apply analytics to optimize decisions
• Improve accuracy of predicting opportunities, threats and risks

• Maximize opportunities to expand processes & capabilities globally
• Increase responsiveness to partners, customers, suppliers
• Improve supply chain efficiencies
• Increase customer/employee/partner, retention & satisfaction
• Improve employee productivity & decision-making

• Manage the risks associated with enterprises and infrastructures
• Protect privacy of data, including employee & customer info
• Ensure effective and efficient security threat management
• Improve IT related resiliency or disaster recovery plans

• React faster to changes in market conditions
• Create/enable a flexible and dynamic IT infrastructure
• Create/support more efficient & adaptive business processes

• Establish the visibility, control and automation of operations
• Improve return on assets through enhanced utilization and extended life
• Create and manage a Dynamic Infrastructure through convergence of Enterprise Operations and IT Operations
• Improve IT through integration of IT Application Development and IT Operations
• Automate IT Operations processes to reduce cost and meet policy and contractual service obligations

• Improve investment value of new products, services & capabilities
• Ensure company has the skills and/or technology to build smart solutions & ensure delivery of business services
• Reduce cost and risk across the product & application life-cycle
• Enhance the service experience delivered to clients and citizens
• Integrate Service Strategy, Service Design and Service Operations
• Manage converged IT and Business infrastructures to ensure delivery of business services

Cognos Express

IBM Cognos® Express is the first and only integrated business intelligence (BI) and planning solution purpose-built to meet the needs of mid-size companies.

It delivers the essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that mid-size 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

• Reporting, analysis and planning
• Purpose-built for mid-market companies and first-timers (less than 100 users)