IBM Cognos 8 BI delivers the complete range of Business Intelligence capabilities on a single service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Using it, you can provide the capabilities and information you need to make better decisions. Use reports, analysis, dashboards and scorecards to monitor business performance, analyse trends and measure results. A service-oriented architecture makes it easy to deploy and manage.

• Build reports, OLAP cubes, dashboards and scorecards using all data sources.
• Proven scalability to hundreds of thousands of users.
• Modular deployment lets you meet immediate user needs and expand or modify as needed.

Included components

Reporting

Write and deliver any type of report, adaptable to any data source, quickly and easily.  More information on using Cognos for your Reporting.

Analysis

Analyse and report against online analytical processing (OLAP) and dimensionally aware relational sources.  Read about how you can Analyse what is happening in your business.

Scorecarding

Build scorecards to align teams and tactics with strategy.  Use Cognos to create Scorecards that can filter the important metrics throughout your company.

Dashboards

Communicate complex information quickly with a range of easy-to-build dashboards.  Create Dashboards to quickly present the Information that Matters to the right people as they need it.

Extend BI

Increase business intelligence user adoption rates within your organization by letting users view and consume reports, scorecards and other BI content using familiar applications or devices, such as a BlackBerry®, search engine, MS Office application or Web browser.

Read more about the Cognos 8 Extentions that are available.

Cognos 8 Studios and Roles for Licensing

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Cognos Express Compared to Cognos 8 BI

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