OLAP Cubes

OLAP cubes provide faster analysis

OLAP cubes, developed to increase the speed with which organizations can analyze large amounts of data, are a critical business intelligence tool for the competitive enterprise. They can identify trends, uncover relationships, and provide multiple perspectives on the performance of an organization – all within a few fractions of a second. Yet OLAP cubes have not yet realized their potential: they are frequently used by only a small number of employees who have the skills to manipulate them. To fully extend the benefits of OLAP cubes throughout the organization, a powerful reporting tool is necessary. The right OLAP reporting tool will allow organizations to directly leverage data from cubes and provide scalability for the valuable business intelligence it can deliver to employees and managers in every department. For a simple and cost-effective solution, Cognos has the answer.

Cognos provides valuable reporting software for OLAP cubes

Cognos 8 Business Intelligence provides a comprehensive set of BI capabilities, including analysis, dashboards, scorecarding, data integration, business event management, and reporting. Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is easy to deploy, integrate and use, delivering a streamlined BI environment that increases user adoption, facilitates better decision-making, and provides the basis for organization-wide performance management initiatives. Cognos solves the OLAP cubes reporting challenge by delivering both reporting tools and OLAP analysis with a unified environment. Cognos 8 reporting leverages the critical business data stored in Cognos Power Cubes, and provides support for other sources such as SAP BW, Essbase, Microsoft SSAS, and IBM DB2. Cognos reporting user interfaces support more than 10 languages, and reports can be produced in more than 25 languages, and with multiple export formats including PDF, HTML, Excel, CSV, and XML.

Connecting users with the data from OLAP cubes

By allowing the data and analysis gleaned from OLAP cubes to be easily communicated throughout the organization, Cognos 8 BI empowers employees to make better decisions and allows the enterprise to be more competitive. Cognos 8 reports can be distributed via email, integrated in applications or MS Office, or centrally accessed by individual users. Cognos provides a single architecture for querying, viewing, analyzing, and authoring reports, streamlining reporting and increasing user adoption of this valuable technology. Cognos Reporting allows users to report against any data source, including relational sources like Oracle, IBM, SQL, and Sybase; ERP systems like PeopleSoft, Siebel, and SAP; modern sources such as XML, Java beans, WSDL; and much more.

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