IBM Cognos 8 BI

IBM Cognos^® 8 BI delivers a complete range of BI capabilities – Reporting, Analysis, Dashboards, and Scorecards – on a single service-oriented architecture (SOA).

You can 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. The SOA makes it easy to deploy and manage.

• 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. Reporting gives you access to a complete list of self-serve report types, is adaptable to any data source and operates from a single metadata layer for a variety of benefits such as multilingual reporting, ad hoc query, and scheduling and bursting. 

Analysis: Analyze and report against online analytical processing (OLAP) and dimensionally aware relational sources. Analysis enables the guided exploration 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. 

Scorecarding: Build scorecards to align teams and tactics with strategy. Scorecarding helps you align your teams and tactics with strategy, communicate goals consistently, and monitor performance against targets. 

Dashboards: Communicate complex information quickly with a range of easy-to-build dashboards. Business dashboards communicate complex information quickly. They translate information from your various corporate systems and data into visually rich presentations using gauges, maps, charts and other graphical elements to show multiple results together.

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