Build a more agile and responsive infrastructure

The IBM Cognos platform is the trusted technology foundation for thousands of smarter organizations. It serves as the common foundation for data access, system management and information delivery that underpins IBM Cognos products and solutions. The IBM Cognos platform is designed to upgrade seamlessly and cost-effectively scale for the broadest business analytics deployments.

Through new innovations in the IBM Cognos platform, you can:

• Optimize system performance with in-memory processing.
• Accelerate model design with guided workflow-driven modeling.
• Improve system management with granular visibility and control.
• Streamline life cycle management with seamless upgrades.

Optimize system performance

Increase business user satisfaction by delivering information more quickly. The IBM Cognos platform provides significant advances to help you optimize your system performance. For example:

• Optimized query generation with pattern intelligence.
• Security-aware and on-demand data and metadata caching for executed reports.
• In-memory calculations and aggregate operations for faster results.
• Enhanced PowerCube build-time and query performance for faster report run time.

Accelerate model design times

Build data models more quickly to drive faster decisions. The IBM Cognos platform features guided workflow-driven modelling that simplifies the creation of relational star schema models.

Improve system management efficiency

Ensure optimal day-to-day performance, improve security monitoring and lower your ownership costs. The IBM Cognos 10 platform provides robust capabilities to reduce bottlenecks and increase IT efficiency. For example:

• System monitoring with interactive charts simplifies system management.
• User-managed credentials enable self-service and reduce reliance on IT.
• Scheduling capabilities with the ability to suspend and delay scheduled reports reduce the load on the system.
• Visual analysis of query generation and execution eases maintenance and troubleshooting of dynamic queries with a visually displayed results flow.

Streamline lifecycle management

Stay responsive to new business requests while managing the cost of staying current. IBM Cognos 10 allows you to upgrade your system without disrupting the user experience. Validate report content between two versions of IBM Cognos software or when you introduce a change into your environment. You can use IBM Cognos 10 to validate content:

• In a single environment, such as for a data source update.
• In multiple environments, to streamline the upgrade process.
• Anytime you need to assess the impact of a change, such as new business requirements.