Written by John Vaughan
Thursday, 11 November 2010 04:49
IBM Cognos Mobile extends interactive Cognos Business Intelligence to mobile devices, so you can access BI content wherever you happen to be.
Interact with information like never before and get relevant insight wherever you are. Enjoy a rich and visual BI experience whether you are offline or online. A flexible and proven platform ensures mobile decision-making is simple, reliable and secure.
- Receives Cognos reports, dashboards, scorecards, analysis and other information in a secure environment
- Supports Apple iPhone and iPad and BlackBerry and PlayBook with a choice of native or web clients
- Supports Android, Windows Mobile and Nokia Symbian operating systems with web-based access
- Features full interactivity with business intelligence (BI) content, including drilling up, down and through and zooming in and out
- Ensures up-to-date BI content with regularly scheduled report distributions
- Provides centralized management, including security, with a single authoring environment
- Includes IBM Cognos Active Report for interaction with BI content offline
IBM Cognos Mobile is designed for users who need to view, analyze and share IBM Cognos Business Intelligence content wherever they are. Whether on the road or at the office, you get the same great insight with a solution that is simple, reliable and secure. You can work with trusted BI content in a rich and visual experience whether offline or online for uninterrupted productivity. The ability to use existing BI content and a single administrative environment help IT keep up with the demands of users on varied devices. The flexible and proven platform ensures that mobile decision-making is simple, reliable and secure.
To ensure that you can interact with trusted BI content on your device of choice, Cognos Mobile includes native and web-based clients for:
Support for devices using the following operating systems:
Experience insight wherever you are
To make it possible for you to gain insight wherever you are, Cognos Mobile provides:
- Broad BI capabilities on mobile devices so you can seamlessly view and interact with reports, dashboards, analysis and much more—anywhere you happen to be.
- The most up to date BI available at your fingertips so you can make timely and accurate decisions based on the most up-to-date information.
- Analysis on the go helps you keep a pulse on your business while on the road
- Location-aware intelligence means you can receive relevant information based on your location for the additional insight that can lead to better business decisions.1
Interact with information offline or online2
We all want the same experience in the work-world that we have in the consumer world in terms of interactivity and consistency. Cognos Mobile provides you with the same experience you get from consumer applications and enables you to take advantage of device-specific gestures and collaborative exchange, along with the ability to interact with information when you are not connected to the Internet.
In addition, Cognos Mobile offers a familiar Cognos Business Intelligence interface for users. You have a rich, interactive BI experience and can fully interact with BI content using:
- Drill up and drill down
- Drill through
- Zoom in and out
- Cell highlights
Confidently deploy BI to any mobile device
Your IT department wants the peace of mind that the mobile devices being brought into the organization for analytic use are secure and can be easily supported. To ensure that IT can deliver secure, relevant and reusable content to mobile devices, Cognos BI Mobile features:
- BI and device-level security
- Single authoring environment
- Single administration environment
- Flexible support for the leading mobile devices
[1] Available only on GPS-enabled BlackBerry devices
[2] See conformance site for supported versions
Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 September 2011 11:11 )
