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IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

Does your business intelligence provide easy and complete insights across SAP and non-SAP data fast enough to make a difference?

"Is SAP Ready to BI?" – Mark Smith of Ventana Research asks if SAP is serious about BI

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence provides answers to key business questions quickly and is built on a modern architecture that reduces IT requirements around authoring, administration, and maintenance.

A complete business intelligence solution

Click to see IBM Cognos 8 BI within the SAP NetWeaver Portal®.

• One BI product to deploy across all data sources and user groups.
• Flexible authoring environment lets you build dashboards, multi-page business reports, pixel-perfect production reports, and more.
• Provide complete capabilities – reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, business event management, and data integration – from a single architecture.
• Deploy any capability against both SAP and non-SAP data for a complete view of performance.
• Single report specification provides multilingual support for global collaboration and the ability to implement more sophisticated capabilities without having to jump tool sets.
• Combine historical data from SAP BW with current data in mySAP without additional coding.

Additional Resources:

Extending the Value of your SAP Applications with Cognos

Online Demo

See full BI capabilities within the SAP NetWeaver Portal.

Empowering Business Decision Makers by Extending Your SAP Applications

White Paper

Learn how to leverage your SAP data with a BI platform that is complete, proven and easy-to-use.

Avoiding Performance Management Pitfalls

Podcast

Listen to Robert D. Kugel, Ventana Research, as he discusses performance management pitfalls.

Extending Your SAP Applications to Better Manage Business Performance: How Your IT Department can add Value to an SAP Infrastructure

White Paper

Learn what business decision makers need for effective performance management on an SAP infrastructure.

Easy Reporting off SAP BW

Web Seminar On-Demand

See integration points between the IBM Cognos 8 BI and SAP architectures and how Arla Foods cut reporting requests to IT by 75 percent.

SAP and Cognos

Podcast

Join James MacCuaig and Scott Lawrence on how customers benefit by combining Cognos & SAP. Learn to leverage your SAP investment, why Powered by SAP NetWeaver status matters, and how to help users get more from your SAP system faster.

Avoiding Performance Management Pitfalls

White Paper

Read what Robert D. Kugel, Ventana Research, describes as performance management pitfalls.

When ERP Is Not the Right Choice

White Paper

Ventana Research: ERP can do more for your company - but it doesn’t do everything.

Evaluating performance management solutions for SAP?

Resource Center

Read what IDC recommends you look for.

The BI and Performance Management on ERP Resource Kit from Ventana Research

Market Driven Event

The BI and Performance Management on ERP Resource Kit from Ventana Research

Support for all data and IT infrastructures

• Leverage your existing SAP non-SAP data and infrastructures, even as SAP versions change and new data sources become available.
• Bring SAP and non-SAP data into a single report or dashboard.
• Perform calculations across heterogeneous data without coding or reliance on IT. Eliminate the overhead of VirtualCubes and MultiProviders.
• SAP-certified interfaces into SAP R/3 and SAP BW data, native access to non-SAP sources.
• Make changes to your IT infrastructure and data strategy without disrupting the user experience.
• Reduce or eliminate overlapping or siloed BI tools.

SAP version-independent (SAP NetWeaver, SAP R/3)

• Deep integration with SAP data and infrastrcture.
• Deploy a consistent business intelligence solution across multiple versions of mySAP and SAP BW.
• Eliminate the need to wait for an SAP upgrade or tie your business intelligence strategy to your SAP deployment plans.
• Reduce the costs, risk, and effort that come with locking your BI to your SAP strategy.
• Certified Powered by SAP NetWeaver® and seamlessly integrated with the SAP NetWeaver Portal, deployable on the SAP Web Application Server, and fully integrated with SAP BW and SAP R/3 through SAP-certified OLAP BAPI and R/3 BAPI/RFC drivers.
• Leverage all your SAP BW data, including InfoCubes, SAP BW Queries, Master Data, ODS Data, and more.
• Take advantage of SAP security and business rules, including languages, hierarchies, aggregations, currency conversion, and similar entities.
• Combine historical, SAP BW data with current, SAP R/3 data in a single report to eliminate duplicate infrastructures that are required for traditionally separate production reporting solutions for SAP R/3 data.

Self-service authoring for everyday users

• Give users the ability to answer questions without relying on IT.
• A single, browser-based interface with familiar icons and actions make IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence easy to learn and use.
• Extended functions for users to add their own calculations without IT or ABAP coding.
• Personal output options including default PDF format for multi-page formatted reports.
• Boost business intelligence adoption and usage rates.
• Casual users can build simple or highly formatted, multi-page, multi-source reports without coding or help from IT.
• Leverage SAP BW hierarchies automatically when grouping or drilling down within reports.
• Leverage SAP BW aggregations, semi-aggregations, and business rules automatically for calculations and subtotals.
• Report layouts automatically adjust when objects are added, moved, or removed.

Available and proven

• Functionality and capabilities driven by 15 years of experience and innovation and 24,000 customers.
• You can deploy IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence on your existing infrastructure today, regardless of the SAP and non-SAP components you are currently using.
• Reduce risks and time to deployment.

A strong partnership since 1997

• Powered by SAP NetWeaver® certification.
• Certified integration with mySAP.
• Executive-level Cognos-SAP communications.
• Dedicated development team with resources in Germany and relationships with SAP R&D.
• One-to-one relationship with SAP customer support.

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