IBM® Cognos® 8 Go! Search enables everyday users to find reports, scorecards and other content created in IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence.

Increase business intelligence adoption rates

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search belongs to the IBM Cognos 8 Go! family of product extensions designed to help you increase business intelligence user adoption rates within your organization.  These extensions let users view and consume BI content using familiar applications or devices, such as a BlackBerry®, search engine, MS Office application or Web browser.

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search provides users with a familiar, browser-based search bar, sophisticated ranking of results and the ability to easily fine-tune those results.

Fast and secure access to ranked and relevant BI

• Full content search (report content, attributes, metadata, annotations) provides fast access to all BI content.
• Common authentication, secure content crawling and integration with IBM Cognos 8 BI returns only those results users authorized to see.
• Integration with IBM Cognos 8 BI administration eliminates need to maintain separate administration interfaces.

Access to all your BI content

• Search interface lets users work in a familiar environment.
• Search-assisted authoring provides a head start to create queries for further refinement.
• Search assisted exploration gives users a launching point for further analysis.

Integrated BI and enterprise content

• Integration with enterprise search applications (IBM OmniFind, Google OneBox for Enterprise, Yahoo, Autonomy) yields BI results and other enterprise information.
• Search results return all relevant structured content (reports, analyses, etc.) and unstructured content (Word documents, PDFs, etc.) within a single interface.
• Deployment within enterprise portal ensures seamless transition to BI experience.