IBM Cognos Active Reports is a new report output type that allows professional report authors to create interactive report applications for offline or disconnected use.

Cognos Active Reports provide full-featured report viewing, so casual BI users can explore business information without having to rely on network connectivity.

The Active Report provides gains in productivity by providing business intelligence to individuals regardless of their location, situation or connectivity.

Truly portable business intelligence

• Cognos Active Report delivers a disconnected reporting application that is a stand-alone, self-contained file.
• Professionally authored functions provide an engaging report or dashboard experience for the user.

Easy delivery

• End users realize the benefits of the Cognos platform, all in a contained report.
• Active Reports can be burst, scheduled, emailed or picked up by individuals from a private URL.
• Schedule deliveries of Active Reports to a large or small set of users.

Business benefits

• Deliver BI to a broad set of users quickly on small to medium data sets.
• No training or authoring skills required to view the interactive report/dashboard.
• Persistent connectivity no longer required for obtaining and viewing key business intelligence data.
• Provide mass deployment of business intelligence economically and easily.

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