IBM Cognos Now! Operational Business Intelligence

Operational Dashboards

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IBM Cognos Now! operational dashboards put immediate information into the hands of managers and operational decision-makers.

Users receive continuously updated information presented in an intuitive, graphical format.

Dashboards can also be personalized to contain the up-to-the-second metrics, graphs, and indicators. And, self-service dashboards allow users to modify and personalize their dashboards without assistance from IT.

Key benefits include:

• Drill-down analysis: Track performance and examine metrics in the finest detail for root-cause analysis.
• Self-service dashboards: Individual users can easily customize and modify at-a-glance views.
• Data-level security: Each user receives only the information required for their job.
• Exception management: Set up alerts and receive immediate notification when metrics reach critical thresholds.
• Integrated task management: Share exceptional situations with others on your team and track them to resolution.

Continuous visibility and closed-loop task management

• Continuous visibility: Event-driven architecture enables a continuous stream of business data, providing fresh views of key metrics for constant measuring and monitoring of business operations.



• Flexible user interface: Each user can personalize their dashboard to most effectively present the information they need; charts and graphs can be customized, thresholds and alerts can be set, and new dashboards can be created using a simple point-and-click interface.



• Role-based information delivery: Integrated data-level security ensures that each user receives only the information that is relevant and necessary for their job.



• Collaboration and workflow: Users can specify workflow processes that will automatically escalate an alert to different managers, superiors or subordinates based on the importance of the alert and the role of each user within the organization. Managers and executives can also easily assign tasks from within their dashboards and, with closed-loop task management, track the assignment to completion.

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IBM Cognos Now! is an operational business intelligence solution that is prepackaged on a hardware, software, or VM appliance, for fast and easy deployment. Read how IBM Cognos Now! delivers self-service, interactive dashboards; robust ad hoc query, reporting, and analysis; and built-in task and exception management to support your organization's continuous monitoring agenda.

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