EXTEND BI enterprise-wide

Click the thumbnail for a closer look at IBM Cognos 8 BI scorecarding.

 

Bring your departmental wins with business intelligence to the wider organization. Cognos, an IBM company, enables you to:

• Establish standards for business intelligence across the enterprise.
• Align decision-making across departments with a single reporting and BI source.
• Create a common language for technical and business terms, e.g. "catalog" vs. "model" vs. "universe".
• Reduce total cost of ownership: fewer vendors and products to install, integrate, and maintain; less time required evaluating other software.

Organizations choose to deploy IBM Cognos 8 BI enterprise-wide because it provides:

• All BI capabilities available with a modern, Web service-based architecture.
• Task-based user interface and seamless, guided access to all BI capabilities makes IBM Cognos 8 BI the standard everyone can use.
• One product delivers a flexible, cost-effective framework with centralized metadata for uniting multiple ERP vendors and data sources: relational, OLAP, flat files, XML, and more.

Additional Resources:

IBM Cognos 8 BI Reporting

Online Demo

See real-world reporting scenarios for casual business users and professional report authors.

Full Demo: IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

Online Demo

Complete capabilities in one product, on a single architecture. See key features for both business and IT users, including Framework Manager, the Adminstration Console, and integration with Microsoft Excel.

Reporting with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

White Paper

Read how IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence delivers complete reporting to all users with one business intelligence product—to make it simpler, faster, and easier to manage.

Gartner - Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 1Q07

Analyst Report

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence for professional users

White Paper

Learn how to respond effectively and produce relevant reports, so that businesses can engage a large number of people across the organization to create, collaborate on, and deploy reports.

BI for Business Users

White Paper

Find out how the flexible access to information inherent in IBM Cognos 8 BI gives users the answers they need regardless of location or environment. Discover how IBM Cognos 8 BI delivers a guided experience and information in context so anyone can find, share, and act on information when they need it most.

IBM Cognos 8 BI MidMarket Reporting Packages

Web Link

These complete reporting solutions offer midsize organizations an affordable, single, Web-based solution for all components of the reporting lifecycle.