Business Intelligence for Microsoft

Overview

Integrate IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence into your Microsoft environment to deliver powerful reporting, scorecarding, and planning capabilities to everyone in your organization.

• You can deploy Cognos software on Windows 2000, Windows XP, and in clustered environments.

• Use IBM Cognos 8 BI Analysis for Microsoft Excel® to explore and analyze multidimensional data in a spreadsheet environment.
• Use MS Outlook to deliver alerts in PDF or HTML.
• Import, manipulate, and publish BI content in MS Office files.
• Excel interface for planning delivers advanced capabilities through a familiar spreadsheet environment.

• Build reports, analysis, scorecards, and financial plans using data from SQL Server and MS Analysis Services.
• Cognos reporting can use SQL Server functions such as federated database servers, XML, multiple instances of SQL Server, and failover clustering support.
• Cognos reporting supports Active Directory for security.
• Single sign-on for simplified user experience.
• Use Cognos data integration to build Analysis Services cubes.

• Cognos leverages the flexibility of DTS by reading and writing DTS packages as sources and targets.

• Cognos supports and integrates with the IIS Web server.

• Zero-footprint, browser-based interface for reports, scorecards, OLAP, and visualizations.

• Open APIs and Web Services to deliver customized BI content through SharePoint Web Parts.
• Open, Web-based architecture allows integration with .NET applications.
• Service-level APIs let Visual Studio or .NET developers use Cognos WSDL to develop .NET code.

• Cognos supports open standards and MS technologies including OLE DB, OLE DB for OLAP, and MDX.

• Certified in the Query, Reporting, and Analysis Tools category of the Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance (DWA)
• IBM Cognos Series 7 is certified to work with SQL Server 2000.
• Managed Microsoft ISV Partner
• Microsoft Certified Partner
• Microsoft SQL Server Data Warehouse certification

Leverage other data sources
Unlike most ERP vendors, Cognos, an IBM company, lets you access, analyze, and report on any kind of data, regardless of location or format.

You can consolidate data from different sources across your organization using data integration to create a unified view of your performance. These sources can include:

• ERP data: PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle
• Other data warehouses or databases: IBM, Microsoft, Sybase, Teradata
• Legacy data, spreadsheets, operational data
• Platforms: UNIX, Windows, LINUX

Additional Resources:

Microsoft and Cognos: Higher Performance from Two Industry Leaders

White Paper

Higher Performance from Two Industry Leaders.

IBM Cognos 8 BI for Microsoft Excel

Online Demo

See how you can perform dimensional analysis in your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.

IBM Cognos 8 Planning Add-in for Microsoft Excel Fact Sheet

Fact Sheet

Increase flexibility, participation, and buy-in with new Excel interface.

Cognos Performance Manager

Online Demo

See how plans, financial reports, and scorecards can help you manage performance across all data sources.

IBM Cognos 8 BI Reporting

Online Demo

See real-world reporting scenarios for casual business users and professional report authors.

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