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Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is the only BIproduct to deliver the complete range of BI capabilities:reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, businessevent management as well as data integration, on asingle, proven architecture.

Easy to integrate, deploy and use, Cognos 8 BI delivers a

simplified BI environment that improves user adoption,enables better decision-making, and serves as an

enterprise-scale foundation for performance management.

Work with information your way

Cognos 8 BI supplies the complete range of informationand capabilities you need to support your decisions and

guide your work day.

Stay connected: Use managed reports, scorecards,dashboards, and alerts.

Find the answers: Build reports and queries toaddress your questions.

Explore trends: Perform in-depth, comparativeanalysis.

Business intelligence that fits your role

Information you need: Depending on your job, youmay need regular reports, vital signs at-a-glance,up-to-date reports, or the ability to dive more deeply

into information. Use information the way you want.

Presented for you: Get the portal and UI that fitsyour needs, rather than a generic one for highly

technical users.

Better collaboration: Everyone using the samesystem and common data increases collaborationacross roles and functions.

See all the data you need

Complete access to your data: Connect systemssuch as operations, resources, customers, andfinance to deliver a common business view of your

data and answer all your questions.

Data consistency: Gain a single business view ofyour corporate data. Be confident that you and yourcolleagues are working with the same numbers.

Reduce your time to action: Unite your corporatedata, so departments, divisions, and business unitscan easily share information from different sources.Spend less time gathering information or reconcilingincompatible data.

Business Intelligence Capabilities

R e p o r t i n g

A single, adaptive authoring environment for the full

range of reports.

Create managed business reports, productionreports, dashboards, and ad hoc queries.

Report against all operational systems, OLAP, andrelational data sources.

Publish reports in all desired formats: Email, HTML,PDF, Microsoft Excel, CSV, and XML.

Offload IT effort and reduce reporting backlogthrough drag-and-drop formatting and user self-service.

Support for Unicode addresses multilingual reportingneeds.

Proven scalability to hundreds of thousands of users.D a s h b o a r d s

Deliver information from different sources in a singlevisual report.

Provide an at-a-glance snapshot of businessperformance.

Shorten time to decisions with multi-objectperformance reports, maps, charts, scorecards, lists,and interactive OLAP analysis.

Create personalized information centers to monitorperformance.

Connect dashboard elements with underlying data forfurther reporting and analysis.

Support management methodologies such as SixSigma.

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An a l y s i s

Explore and analyze large volumes of data with fast andpredictable response times.

Analyze all data, using OLAP or dimensionally awarerelational sources.

Perform deep comparative analysis of businessperformance across multiple dimensions (time,

product, customer, etc.).

Analyze large, complex data sets with an easy-to-use, drag-and drop user interface, pivoting, and

filtering.

S c o r e c a r d i n g

Link initiatives to strategy with metrics and strategymaps.

At-a-glance view of performance against targets. Ensure accountability by linking metrics to owners. Understand performance trends with direct access to

reports and analysis.

Out-of-the-box initiative tracking to managecorrective actions.

Use metric data to drive your enterprise planning forintegrated performance management.

B u s i n e s s e v e n t m a n a g em e n t

Automate the detection and management of important

business events.

Monitor operational systems to detect businessprocess events.

Set alerts and deliver time-critical information todecision-makers across departments and locations.

Reduce time-to-action and enable fact-based issueresolution.

Manage events throughout their lifecycle until theyare resolved

D a t a i n t e g r a t i o n

With extract, transform, and load (ETL) capability, delivera data warehouse ready for analysis and reporting.

Built on a dimensional framework to provideinformation based on the way business users think.

Optimized for Cognos 8 BI capabilities. Lets you leverage and enhance your investments in

third-party tools.