IBM Cognos Express

IBM Cognos Express is purpose-built, and priced, to allow companies to deliver immediate value and then expand as they grow. Easy to install, easy to use and easy to buy, IBM Cognos Express contains everything you need 'out of the box' with no additional burden on IT, and delivers the essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that midsize companies need at a price they can afford. With its simple, easy-to-use interface, everyone from novice users to power users can easily get the reports and analysis they need on their own, without relying on the IT staff.

With IBM Cognos Express, you can "think big and start small" and enable project rollout to match resource capacity and budget. You may purchase the full product with its reporting, analysis, dashboard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities, or you may start with the specific module or modules you need today, secure in an easy growth path for the future. This flexible approach gives you the freedom to "think big, but start small" - an effective strategy to match project and business needs with budget and resource constraints.

IBM Cognos Express Modules:

Cognos Express Reporter:  Self-service reporting and ad hoc query. Handle all of your reporting needs (production, dashboards, operational, transactional, managed) and empower business users to easily access, modify and create reports with comprehensive self-service reporting and ad hoc query capabilities.

IBM Cognos Express Advisor: Freeform analysis and visualization. Quickly and easily translate raw data into sophisticated analysis with rich visual presentations that include simple and intuitive drill down and drill up capabilities and the flexibility to slice and dice information. Optimize and transform business outcomes with powerful "what-if" scenario modelling and write back.

IBM Cognos Express Xcelerator: Excel-based planning and business analysis. Transform common spreadsheets with a powerful in-memory analytics engine for real-time multidimensional analysis, planning, budgeting and forecasting.

IBM Cognos Express Planner: streamlines information gathering, aggregation and analysis for continuous planning, budgeting and forecasting. Advanced filtering features, such as hierarchy leveling, attribute values, element names (with aliases) and spelling patterns, for more finely grained simulations.