IBM Cognos NoticeCast

Overview


  • Automatic email alerts—Receive alerts on your desktop, PDA, or cell phone.

  • Multiple-alert messages—Send varying messages based on a single event to different recipients or groups, such as summaries for a manager and detail for a sales rep.

  • Guided analysis—Use links in the message to analyze source information. Event values, such as customer or product, guide your exploration and provide filtered analysis on only that customer or product.

  • Event management—Using prompts in the alert, communicate decisions using an email pre-populated with event information, order or enquire through a pre-populated transaction screen, or perform other follow-ups.

  • SQL agents—Automate guided analysis and event management by using SQL agents against relational data in a warehouse or operational/transactional system:
    • Insert or update records in a RDBMS based on the event.
    • Run another agent to qualify the initial set of records against other conditions, such as orders shipping incomplete but only for high-profitability customers.
    • Run an executable, such as one that creates a burst report showing all incomplete orders for each high profitability customer group and email it to the responsible customer services manager.