IBM Cognos 8 Mashup Service is an API that automatically exposes content from IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence as a Web Service for use in operational applications, business process management (BPM) processes and mashups.

Deliver business intelligence into an essential component of your everyday business processes. Integrate the entire reports, analysis, and metric, or just the most relevant part, into your applications for HR, procurement, sales force and more.

• Improve decision-making outside the realm of traditional BI applications by making information more broadly available to business users.
• Increase the value of applications you already use by adding trusted BI.
• Provide BI information without requiring any additional effort by the BI IT team.
• Integrate with all your applications with support for both REST and SOAP interfaces.

Increase the reach of trusted BI content

The IBM Cognos 8 Mashup Service increases your IT staff's ability to drive better business decisions by providing a new way to use the trusted BI content you have already created.

• Automatic creation: When your BI content is saved, a Web Service is created for that content. No additional components or effort required.
• Access all BI content: Expose all aspects of your BI content, including business rules, query context, charts, conditional formatting, prompts and drill paths.
• Easy integration: IBM Cognos 8 Mashup Service based on the most modern integration standards (REST, SOAP) for integration in all your applications, processes and mashups.

Drive better business decisions

The IBM Cognos 8 Mashup Service helps business users make better-informed business decisions by putting more information at their fingertips and within their business processes.

• Make information more accessible: IBM Cognos 8 Mashup Service puts consistent and trusted BI content into the applications and processes you use every day.
• Increase the value of your existing applications: IBM Cognos 8 Mashup Service lets you mash market data with your existing BI content.
• Build greater context and insights into your data visualizations: Add BI content to your maps and charts.