IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI)

Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is a powerful BI tool based on a single service oriented architecture (SOA) to support companies with their Reporting, Analysis, Dashbords, and Scorecarding needs.

Reporting

Reporting in Cognos BI is adaptable to any data source and provides the end users in your company with the ability to generate reports from a list of self-serve report types. Reports are based on multi-dimensional layers and feature sophisticated drag and drop authoring that can incorporate data, text, charts, graphs, and images. All reports can be exported to multiple formats such as Excel, PDF, CSV and even HTML or XML for easy web based deployment and integration.

Analysis

With the powerful Reporting functionality of Cognos BI your company is presented with the ability to perform complex analysis quickly and easily to understand "why" events and actions are affecting the performance of your company. Perform Analysis quickly in logical categories such as fiscal periods, regions, customers, products, or divisions. The analysis performed can be completed at summary levels or down to transaction level detail, dependent on the answers you are seeking.

Dashboards

Dashboards translate complex information into easy to understand charts, maps, guages or other graphical elements to display your data. Imagine your sales team viewing real-time sales numbers compared to sales goals. Or employees at your manufacturing plant reviewing total units produced per hour to identify if production is keeping up with manufacturing goals. Dashboards can be deployed via the Web, Blackberry Mobile Phone, or Windows Mobile Phone so all your employees are appropriately informed.

Scorecarding

Scorecarding helps your company monitor performance against targets and communicate consistent goals. Scorecard impact diagrams can be used for you to receive instant metric information and strategic objectives can easily be added by end users without needing support from IT to make the changes. Every metric in a scorecard can be assigned to an owner so there are no questions of accountability and events or alerts can be set to keep everyone aware when specific metrics diverge from a threshold.