IBM Cognos Now! Operational Business Intelligence

Application Workbench

The Application Workbench is the configuration tool that lets business analysts quickly and easily set up data sources and analytic models to present current information, historical data, or aggregated views.

With a graphical, browser-based interface, the workbench requires no programming to add data sources, modify data views, define business rules, or configure user permissions.

With the Application Workbench, an administrator can:

• Configure connectivity agents to access all relevant data sources.
• Identify specific information from each data source that is required.
• Define static data sources to provide contextual information (calendar, geographies, etc.).
• Define business rules and the actions to take when business rule conditions are met.
• Identify data sets to archive for historical or trend analysis.
• Set up users, roles and permissions to ensure each user receives only the information that is relevant and necessary for their job.
• Create aggregate views and multi-dimensional cubes from all data sources to track key performance metrics. Views are aggregated summaries of large amounts of data that provide an at-a-glance display of information and metrics. Multi-dimensional cubes provide high-level summaries of information for executive monitoring, with the ability to drill-down through a hierarchy to view detailed data.

Additional Resources:

IBM Cognos Now! Demo

Online Demo

See how users build and edit their own dashboards quickly and easily.

'Operational BI: Getting Real-time About Performance' by Aberdeen research

Research Report

Companies are trying to improve efficiencies and performance of may day-to-day and real-time activities, such as customer interactions, finance and accounting processes, transportation/shipping, sales activity, manufacturing, inventory management Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), and marketing. This research report from Aberdeen Group provides a roadmap for the strategies and capabilities that Best-in-Class companies are employing to improve operational performance.

Operational Business Intelligence: Providing decision-makers with up-to-date visibility into operations

White Paper

Learn: Use cases for operational BI; The difference between enterprise BI and operational BI; Criteria for a successful operational BI deployment.

Manufacturing Quality Assurance with IBM Cognos Now! Monitor White Paper

White Paper

Find out how operational performance management with Cognos can improve efficiency, quality, and profitability in your organization.

Operational Business Intelligence: Assessing Market Treands and the Use of BI in Operations

White Paper

An issue paper by Ventana Research substantiates the view that operational BI is an important tool for performance management; companies that adopt it can expect to become more effective in key areas of operations.

Business Intelligence for Midsize Organizations featuring Gartner research

Analyst Report

Case studies of midsize organizations using Cognos software as a foundation for Performance Management. Featuring research from Gartner and Cognos into what midsize organizations needs are to make better business decisions with limited resources and budget.

Lowering the Total Cost of Ownership for Business Intelligence in Mid-Size Companies

Analyst Report

A Ventana Research white paper

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