BI for Professional Users
Learn how everyone from executives, professional users, business managers, analysts, to casual users can to be a part of the report development cycle.

BI for Business Users
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.

Picturing Performance Dashboards and Scorecards
This white paper outlines the three types of dashboards (operational, tactical, strategic) as described by TDWI's Wayne Eckerson and illustrates how to build them using IBM Cognos Now! and IBM Cognos 8 BI. Explains the role of dashboarding in a performance management deployment. Illustrations.

Visual Communication: Core Design Principles for Displaying Quantitative Information Learn to build reports that communicate more clearly, based on the latest research into perception and understanding. Part 1 of a 3-part series by Stephen Few

Visual Pattern Recognition: Meaningful Patterns in Quantitative Business Information Bar chart or line graph? This paper examines the data patterns and relationships common in most business reports and provides practical guidelines for communicating these relationships effectively using points, lines, and bars. Part 2 of a 3-part series by Stephen Few.

Data Visualization: Past, Present, and future Spanning more than 2,000 years of recorded human history, this paper examines the birth and evolution of data visualization, from early Egyptian tables used to organize astronomical information through to bar charts, treemaps, and geo-spatial visualization tools (such as Google Earth). Part 3 of a 3-part series by Stephen Few

Rapid Scorecarding for financial services
Find out the value of scorecarding and the five key steps to creating an effective one.

Driving Business Performance with Cognos Scorecarding
Listen as Brent Winsor of Cognos, an IBM company, shares how Cognos scorecarding enables organizations to effectively communicate strategy, provide employee focus, and ensure accountability and ownership.

The Full Promise of Business Intelligence
Read about the value of a Web Services architecture, how IBM Cognos 8 BI provides all capabilities to all users, and using all data, and how IBM Cognos 8 BI provides a foundation for performance management.

Seven Steps to Flawless Business Intelligence
Gartner has identified the “Fatal Flaws” that prevent organizations from realizing the promise of BI. Here are seven steps you can take with IBM Cognos 8 BI to avoid making them in your organization.

The Right Architecture for Business Intelligence
Read why the right architecture is a key factor in successful BI deployments and how the single, open IBM Cognos 8 BI architecture can reduce IT workload, improve productivity, and make better use of your IT budget.

A Broad Information Reach: the Gateway to Information Management
Learn how to access all of your data, in any format and location, and turn it into information that you can trust to manage your performance

Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting
Read about the factors to consider in standardizing your BI, the importance of TCO, and why IBM Cognos 8 BI is the only choice for BI standardization.

Reporting with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
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.

The Strategic Importance of OLAP and Multidimensional Analysis
Read how OLAP and multidimensional analysis provides organizations with the deep business insight needed to make more informed decisions.

Scorecarding with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Read why organizations struggle with alignment and accountability; how scorecarding overcomes these challenges, and how you can use IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence to enable a scorecarding system in your organization.

Business Event Management
Learn how BEM improves decision-making and how using IBM Cognos 8 BI in conjunction with BEM systems can drive higher performance.

Reporting on Powercubes®
Read how IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence reporting integrates with PowerPlay to provide high-definition reporting on the comprehensive business information stored in PowerCubes.

Easier to deploy and manage with IBM Cognos 8 BI
Learn how IBM Cognos 8 BI makes it easy for IT to meet its service level agreements to the business without exceeding budgets or available resources.

Supporting more user communities with IBM Cognos 8 BI
Learn how new features in IBM Cognos 8 BI let financial and business analysts build and edit crosstabs and statement-style reports quickly and with live data.

More targeted information with IBM Cognos 8 BI
Learn how new features in IBM Cognos 8 BI helps IT increase the value of the information that users receive from their BI implementation.

Adaptive Authoring with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Read how the IBM Cognos 8 BI Adaptive Authoring Environment delivers three key benefits which simplify the BI authoring process to help reduce the IT backlog of requests.

Open Security with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Learn how to use IBM Cognos 8 BI to leverage your existing security infrastructure with straightforward application security and encryption, row and column data security, 168-bit encryption, and more.

Metadata and IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Read how IBM Cognos 8 BI is specifically designed to leverage and deliver centralized enterprise metadata. Use Cognos' powerful metadata administration tool to save IT time and resources and to apply consistent business rules, dimensions, and calculations to all your enterprise data.

Multilingual Reporting with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Read how to use the multilingual capabilities in IBM Cognos 8 BI to empower your global enterprise, reduce your IT workload, lower your total cost of ownership for BI software, and aggressively compete in the global marketplace.

Integration with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Use the Web services-based architecture of IBM Cognos 8 BI to leverage your existing IT assets and infrastructure to reduce complexity and deliver reliable, available, scalable information.

IBM Cognos 8 BI Analysis for Microsoft Excel®
Multidimensional exploration and analysis in your Excel spreadsheet.

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Mobile
Business intelligence reports and analysis direct to your BlackBerry®.

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search
Business intelligence and enterprise search.

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Office
Import business intelligence into MS Office® applications.

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Reporting and Dashboards
Deliver complete reporting coverage for all your users.

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Analysis
Discover the factors driving business performance.

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Scorecarding
Communicate goals, assign ownership, and track performance.

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Event Lifecycle Management
Compress the time-to-action when critical events happen.

IBM Cognos 8 BI and SAP Solutions
Extend the value of your investment in SAP

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Data Integration for SAP R/3
Extend the value of your SAP investment.

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Data Integration
Deliver a dimensional data warehouse for high performance business intelligence.

IBM Cognos 8 Report Pack for mySAP (R/3)
Combine operational and historic data in a single report. No coding required.

IBM Cognos 8 Report Pack for Siebel CRM
Combine operational and historic data in a single report. No coding required.