OLAP Reporting

Reporting is the Key to Successful OLAP Strategies

Enterprises today are using sophisticated online analytical processing (OLAP) tools for multidimensional analysis. But better analysis doesn’t necessarily translate into greater benefit to the organization – it all comes down to reporting. With user-friendly and highly flexible OLAP reporting technology, users are able to quickly absorb analysis and use it to improve organizational performance and competitiveness. When OLAP data is not readily available or easy to use, the very value of the information is undermined. That’s why so many companies the world over have invested in reporting solutions from Cognos.

Cognos Software Simplifies OLAP Reporting

Cognos, a worldwide leader in solutions for business intelligence, offers one of the world’s leading OLAP analysis and reporting products in Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI). Cognos 8 BI offers users the ability to explore large complex data sets with drag-and-drop techniques, drilling down through levels of detail to view information from many angles. Cognos offers greater functionality for slicing and dicing data, ranking, sorting forecasting and nesting information to get a better sense of causes, effects and trends. Users can work in environments that are familiar to them, such as Windows, the Web or Excel, decreasing training costs and maximizing ROI. With a remarkably user-friendly interface, Cognos makes understanding and reporting OLAP data much simpler, regardless of technical skill level. And because Cognos 8 BI processes and summarizes data in the application layer and only returns results at a summary level, it conserves bandwidth and optimizes network efficiency.

Combine Planning, Analysis and Reporting with Cognos OLAP Tools

As part of the Cognos suite of integrated enterprise performance solutions, Cognos 8 BI OLAP reporting tools blend seamlessly with technology for enterprise planning, scorecarding, dashboards, business — event management and more. As a data-agnostic solution, Cognos can read and incorporate all widely-used OLAP data sources, further simplifying and enhancing reporting. Cognos 8 BI delivers a business intelligence environment that is at once simpler and more powerful than competitors’, increasing user adoption and enabling better decision-making throughout the enterprise. With Cognos solutions available to all users in an organization, information is far more integrated into daily work flow, and it becomes a much stronger tool for improving performance and competitiveness.

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