COGNOS OVERVIEW

  COGNOS INTRODUCTION

Cognos is Business Intelligence software that enables users to extract data, analyze it, and then assemble reports.

IBM Cognos BI provides a unified workspace for business intelligence and analytics that the entire organization can use to answer key business questions and outperform the competition. With IBM Cognos BI, users can:

• Easily view, assemble and personalize information

• Explore all types of information from all angles to assess the current business situation

• Analyze facts and anticipate tactical and strategic implications by simply shifting from viewing to more advanced, predictive or what-if analysis

• Collaborate to establish decision networks to share insights and drive toward a collective intelligence

• Provide transparency and accountability to drive alignment and consensus

• Communicate and coordinate tasks to engage the right people at the right time

• Access information and take action anywhere, taking advantage of mobile devices and real-time analytics

• Integrate and link analytics in everyday work to business workflow and process

• Organizations need to make the most of a workforce that is increasingly driven to multi-task, network and collaborate. IBM Cognos BI delivers analytics everyone can use to answer key business questions.

   Easily view, assemble, and personalize information
  

   Explore all types of information
   

   Analyze facts and anticipate tactical and strategic implications
 

    IBM Cognos BI user interfaces

• IBM Cognos BI includes web-based and Windows-based user interfaces that provide a business intelligence experience that is focused upon the needs of different users.

• IBM Cognos Business Insight With IBM Cognos Business Insight, you can create sophisticated interactive

• dashboards using IBM Cognos content, as well as external data sources such as TM1 Web sheets and Cube Views, according to your specific information needs.

• You can view and open favorite dashboards and reports, manipulate the content in the dashboards, and email your dashboards. You can also use comments and activities for collaborative decision making and use social software such as IBM Lotus Connections for collaborative decision making.

    IBM Cognos Content Manager

IBM Cognos Content Manager is the IBM Cognos Platform service that manages the storage of the following customer application data:

• Security settings and configurations

• Server configuration settings

• Packages

• Dashboards

• Metrics

• Report specifications

• Report output