Cognos Performance Management

Business Intelligence for Reporting and Analysis

Reporting and Analysis software answers the fundamental “Why” of your business performance.

Reporting and Analysis are key capabilities of Cognos 8 Business Intelligence, the only solution that provides complete BI functionality in one product, on a single, proven architecture. Cognos 8 BI leverages your existing data investment and simplifies your IT environment. It takes the enormous volume of data that your organization collects and stores, and turns it into meaningful reports and analysis that everyone can use.

Reporting with Cognos gives you access to a complete list of self-serve report types. It adapts to any data source, and operates from a single metadata layer. The result is higher user adoption, better decisions across the organization, and the ability to respond more quickly to threats and opportunities. Cognos Reporting lets you:

  • Align everyone with one, reliable version of business reality —With common data definitions and understanding of priorities, you spend less time debating the data and more time deciding what action to take.
  • Benefit from pre-built connections to underlying data sources —Map report elements to common data sources (such as ERP data warehouses) to give you a head start on integrated performance management.
  • Make the right decisions faster —Timely reports and self-service reporting let you see changes when they happen and make the right decisions at the right time.
  • Meet the information needs of all users —flexible, user-friendly reporting means that everyone can have information delivered the way they want to see it.

Learn more: Reporting with Cognos 8 Business Intelligence


Analysis tools from Cognos enable you to explore information that pertains to all dimensions of your business—regardless of where the data is stored. You can perform complex, in-depth analysis quickly, examining performance metrics by time period, geographical region or product group. Cognos Analysis helps you:

  • Get the answers you need at the right level of detail —See information from different departments or regions and drill down from summary to transaction level detail to discover the underlying causes of business fluctuations.
  • Perform advanced multidimensional modeling— Show how metrics connect with each other, and link them to underlying reports and information.
  • Examine trends with customizable time series analysis—Learn what has changed over previous years, quarters, months, or other critical time periods.
  • Make complex analysis simple—User-friendly interface allows all users, regardless of business or technical level, to view data relationships graphically and change displays with ease.

Learn more: Analysis with Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

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