IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

Reporting

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.

With the reporting capability, you can personalize the style and quality of BI delivered to your key stakeholders; and you expand the community of BI users.

Analysis

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.

For those who want to explore and perform multidimensional analysis on IBM Cognos 8 BI data in their spreadsheet, there is IBM Cognos 8 BI Analysis for Microsoft Excel®

With the analysis capability, you can personalize the style and quality of BI delivered to your key stakeholders; and you expand the community of BI users

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.

IBM, offers the full range of dashboards - operational, tactical, strategic - to help you monitor, measure, and manage corporate performance.

You can deploy IBM Cognos dashboards as a standalone application or as a core element of an enterprise business intelligence or performance management platform.

Scorecarding

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