Cognos 10 Business Viewpoint

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Written by John Vaughan
Friday, 12 November 2010 08:59

Overview

IBM Cognos® Business Viewpoint makes it possible to access and manage business data definitions, structures and relationships from anywhere in a shared vie

Manage the changes to all data related to analyzing and running your business in a controlled and collaborative environment. With Cognos Business Viewpoint, dimensions, attributes and hierarchies are maintained by your business for your business.

  • A business-driven user interface helps your business users quickly respond to changes in domains, such as chart of accounts, cost centers and products, as they happen.
  • A workflow-oriented environment helps you govern the dimensions related to how your business is analyzed and managed.
  • Security features ensure that users can only make edits to those areas of responsibility for which they have been assigned.
  • A central dimension store makes it possible for designated users from anywhere in your organization to share agreed-upon business hierarchies and attributes for use in decision-making and planning efforts.
  • Bi-directional integration with applications such as Cognos TM1®, Cognos Planning and Cognos Controller means you can share dimensional information to help your business achieve higher levels of regulatory compliance, auditability and software standardization.
  • A service-oriented architecture (SOA) foundation enables Cognos Business Viewpoint to work with your existing infrastructure.
  • A controlled environment helps you integrate approved business definition modifications into source systems.
  • A single, sanctioned source of dimensions, hierarchies and data is available for all performance management and business intelligence activities.

Features and benefits

At the heart of your company are the systems that track business activities and feed information into the business analytic applications that support decision making. Usually, each system rolls up data differently and reconciling the different cycles is a challenge. Manual attempts can create unreliable and inconsistent information. Domain experts cannot collaborate effectively in the dimension management process. Errors multiply. Your ability to make important business decisions can be affected.

Acquiring a centralized view of data from multiple systems can enhance availability and accelerate flow of information—and drive performance and profitability. IBM Cognos® Business Viewpoint software provides a controlled, collaborative, workflow-oriented environment so you can manage business data structures, relationships and attributes from anywhere in a shared view.

Cognos Business Viewpoint helps you build accurate, complete, usable information that you can use to drive better business outcomes with:

  • A single place where designated users from all over your organization can create and collaborate on a consistent, shared viewpoint
  • A highly visual interface and fully flexible models that make it easy to create and maintain individual perspectives
  • Fully transparent, automated and auditable workflow-oriented business processes that replace manual, error-prone efforts
  • Bi-directional interfaces that help you deliver shared, approved viewpoints to the systems and applications that need them
  • A controlled environment that enables you to integrate approved business definition modifications into source systems

In addition, Cognos Business Viewpoint delivers dimension management in a “no-code” environment. Analysts can divest rules and ownership to business stakeholders and respond quickly to changes in the business as they happen. This saves time typically spent on manually reconciling reports, plans, forecasts and budgets.

Learn More:

IBM Cognos Business Viewpoint data sheet (691KB)