COGNOS 8 BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE Overview Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is the only BI product to deliver the complete range of BI capabilities:

reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, business event management as well as data integration, on a single, proven architecture. Cognos 8 BI also delivers powerful search functionality for both BI and Enterprise Search. Easy to integrate, deploy and use, Cognos 8 Business Intelligence delivers a simplified BI environment that improves user adoption, enables better decisionmaking, and serves as an enterprise-scale foundation for performance management. Business Intelligence Capabilities Reporting A single, adaptive authoring environment for the full range of reports.

Create managed business reports, production reports, dashboards, and ad hoc queries. Report against all operational systems, OLAP, and relational data sources. Publish reports in all desired formats: Email, HTML, PDF, Microsoft Excel, CSV, and XML. Offload IT effort and reduce reporting backlog through drag-and-drop formatting and user self-service. Support for Unicode addresses multilingual reporting needs. Proven scalability to hundreds of thousands of users.

Analysis Explore and analyze large volumes of data with fast and predictable response times.

Analyze all data, using OLAP or dimensionally aware relational sources. Perform deep comparative analysis of business performance across multiple dimensions (time, product, customer, etc.). Analyze large, complex data sets with an easy-to-use, drag-and drop user interface, pivoting, and filtering.

Scorecarding Link initiatives to strategy with metrics and strategy maps.

At-a-glance view of performance against targets. Ensure accountability by linking metrics to owners. Understand performance trends with direct access to reports and analysis. Out-of-the-box initiative tracking to manage corrective actions. Use metric data to drive your enterprise planning for integrated performance management.

Dashboards Deliver information from different sources in a single visual report.

Provide an at-a-glance snapshot of business performance. Shorten time to decisions with multi-object performance reports, maps, charts, scorecards, lists, and interactive OLAP analysis. Create personalized information centres to monitor performance. Connect dashboard elements with underlying data for further reporting and analysis. Support management methodologies such as Six Sigma.

Business event management Automate the detection and management of important business events.

Monitor operational systems to detect business process events. Set alerts and deliver time-critical information to decision-makers across departments and locations. Reduce time-to-action and enable fact-based issue resolution. Manage events throughout their lifecycle until they are resolved.

Data integration With extract, transform, and load (ETL) capability, deliver a data warehouse ready for analysis and reporting.

Built on a dimensional framework to provide information based on the way business users think. Optimized for Cognos 8 BI capabilities. Lets you leverage and enhance your investments in third-party tools.