IBM Cognos Now! Operational Business Intelligence

IBM Cognos Now! [PDF - 241 KB]

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.

Operational Business Intelligence: Providing decision-makers with up-to-date visibility into operations [PDF - 1 MB]

Learn:

• Use cases for operational BI
• The difference between enterprise BI and operational BI
• Criteria for a successful operational BI deployment

Improving Performance - Operational BI Provides Instant Answers for Direct Action [PDF - 153 KB]

Competitive pressures are forcing midsize companies to react faster to changing usiness conditions and customer requirements. As a result, there is now a need to use business intelligence to help drive and optimize business operations on a daily basis, and, in some cases, even for intraday decision making.

Manufacturing Quality Assurance with IBM Cognos Now! Monitor White Paper [PDF - 263 KB]

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

Lowering the Total Cost of Ownership for BI in Midsize Companies: A Ventana Research white paper
[PDF - 183 KB]

A white paper by Ventana Research, explaining how alternative Business Intelligence (BI) delivery models enable mid-sized businesses deploy BI fast and at the lowest total cost of ownership.”