IBM Cognos Express

IBM Cognos^® Express is the first and 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.  For organizations that are beginning to embark or expand on a BI and planning strategy, IBM Cognos Express includes everything needed to get started right away including:

• Flexible data access – provides access to relational, OLAP and local data sources in any combination through the use of centrally managed data models and metadata

• A common Web portal – enables users to publish reports and create compelling dashboards using any IBM Cognos Express module to deliver a single, shared view of the business

• Tight security – uses role-based access with a single sign-on

• A powerful in-memory analytics server – enables lightning fast queries and on-the-fly calculations regardless of the size or complexity of the data set

• A single management console – offers push-button installation, configuration and operation to manage the entire solution

IBM Cognos Express also offers a complete, integrated self-service solution for a midsize company’s BI and planning needs. The following three modules can be used separately or together:

• IBM Cognos Express Reporter for reporting and ad hoc query

• IBM Cognos Express Advisor for freeform analysis and visualization

• IBM Cognos Express Xcelerator for Microsoft^® Excel^® based planning and business analysis

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