Engage workgroups to accelerate time to align, decide and act

IBM Cognos 10 delivers built-in collaboration and social networking to drive the exchange of information, ideas and activities essential to effective decision-making. With IBM Cognos 10 you can:

• Establish decision networks to discuss issues, share insights and align decisions
• Attach business context to BI content to enhance its meaningfulness and value and establish a collective corporate intelligence
• Support workflow to establish accountability and coordinate activities

Expand the reach and impact of information and insights

Share insights and solicit ideas with a broad set of social networking capabilities. IBM Cognos 10 features integrated access to blogs, wikis and message boards that let you expand the reach and impact of your information and gather input from different perspectives. Build a central hub of collective intelligence that everyone can use.

• Establish information hubs and networks that span users, divisions, locations and departments.
• Create threaded discussions associated with BI content on blogs, wikis and message boards.
• Search threads, people, discussions and decision history.

Attach business context to BI to enhance its meaningfulness and value

Increase the value of BI by increasing the user understanding of the information it contains. IBM Cognos 10 features a broad set of report-level features to help you better describe your data, capture insight about it and prescribe how to use it. Now, more business users will rely on business intelligence information because they fully understand and trust it.

• Annotations at the report or cell level to review previous remarks or to insert your own guidance
• Enterprise dictionary provides one-click access to commonly defined taxonomies and terms.
• Data lineage provides access to business information about the data, including report author, data source(s), SQL, calculations and filters.
• Integration with IBM InfoSphere Metadata Workbench provides end-to-end view of data lineage.

Communicate and co-ordinate tasks to engage the right people at the right time

Put better decisions into action with ad hoc BI workflow. IBM Cognos 10 features workflow and task management capabilities that connect people with insights and decisions with activities in a seamless, closed-loop environment. Now, you can close the gap between insights and activity to drive better results at every level.

• Ad hoc task initiation lets you assign ownership, manage initiatives and track projects and activities.
• Integration with IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook provides easy and instant access to complete task list.