IBM Cognos 10 Capabilities

Cognos 10 helps your organization make smarter decisions, achieve better results, and gain a deeper understanding of trends, opportunities, weaknesses and threats. Cognos 10 lets you explore any data, in any combination and over any time period with a broad range of analytics capabilities:

Query and Reporting
Comprehensive query and reporting capabilities to make smarter decisions.

From professional report authors responsible for designing one-to-many reports for the enterprise, to business users who need the ability to create their own ad-hoc queries or customize existing reports, Cognos® Business Intelligence query and reporting capabilities fit the needs of users across the organization.

Cognos Business Intelligence query and reporting capabilities include professional report authoring capabilities that are easy to use and minimize the effort for report authors.

Analysis
Analysis for everyone.

Information silos, multiple platforms and excessive reliance on spreadsheets can hinder effective decision-making at a time when you need to make better decisions faster. IBM Cognos® analysis software helps every kind of user in your organization outperform by providing a full range of analysis capabilities.

Read the Analysis for everyone data sheet (620 KB)

Scorecarding
At-a-glance information to successfully link strategy to operations.

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Scorecarding automates the strategy management process, enabling organizations to monitor, measure and manage their business metrics against strategic and operational objectives throughout the organization.

Dashboarding
High-impact information presentation to monitor, measure and manage corporate performance.

Cognos dashboard capabilities allow any user to access, interact and personalize content in a way that supports the unique way they make decisions. Secure access to information from all time horizons including Business Intelligence, Real-time Monitoring, SPSS and Cognos TM1 means that users can quickly move from insight to action.

With Cognos Business Intelligence Dashboard capabilities you can:

• Assemble and personalize dashboard views to support individual decision-making styles.
• Leverage information from all time horizons, past, present and future, for a complete view of the business.
• Make dashboards portable to support decisions where and when they need to be made.

Real-time Monitoring
Up-to-the second, relevant information within the context of your BI information.

IBM Cognos Real-time Monitoring is a business intelligence (BI) solution that addresses your company’s operational BI needs. It features self-service, interactive dashboards with easy to develop operational KPIs and measures for frontline business users, including executives on the go, managers and analysts.

Statistics
Statistical analysis incorporated into your business reporting.

How simply can you support business decisions with statistical results? How easy is it for you to identify process faults? How do you currently incorporate statistical results with your core business reporting? How quickly can you see patterns and trends in your data?

IBM Cognos® Statistics, powered by IBM SPSS Statistics Engine, makes it easy to incorporate statistical results with core business reporting, reducing the time it takes to analyze data and prepare business presentations based on that analysis. Cognos Statistics also helps validate business information, and drive business decisions by incorporating statistical evidence in reports that can be delivered easily to broader business communities.
Read the IBM Cognos Statistics data sheet (590 KB)
Learn more about Cognos Statistics Powered by SPSS Statistics Engine

Extending BI
Convenient methods for delivering business intelligence to a wider audience.

Empower users across your organization with the business intelligence (BI) they need to make to make effective, fact-based decisions.

Cognos Business Intelligence provides solutions to ensure users have consistent, trusted and relevant BI, when, where and how they need it.

Collaborative BI
Modern tools for collaborating, building stronger teams and stimulating better decisions.

IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence provides built-in collaborative and social networking capabilities to fuel the exchange of ideas and knowledge that naturally occurs in decision-making processes today.
Teams can lose tremendous productivity as they search for invaluable information hidden in various meeting notes, manual processes, emails and people’s notebooks. Cognos Business Intelligence helps groups streamline and improve decision-making by providing capabilities for forming communities, capturing annotations and opinions, and sharing insights with others around the information itself.

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