IBM (Cognos)
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence delivers the complete range of BI capabilities on a single, service-oriented architecture (SOA). Author, share, and use reports that draw on data across all enterprise sources for better business decisions.
Reporting
Reporting gives you access to a complete list of self-serve report types, is adaptable to any data source, and operates from a single metadata layer for a variety of benefits such as multilingual reporting.
With the reporting capability, you can personalize the style and quality of BI delivered to your key stakeholders; and you expand the community of BI users.
Analysis
Analysis enables the guided exploration of information that pertains to all dimensions of your business, regardless of where the data is stored. Analyze and report against online analytical processing (OLAP) and dimensionally aware relational sources.
Dashboards
Business dashboards communicate complex information quickly. They translate information from your various corporate systems and data into visually rich presentations using gauges, maps, charts, and other graphical elements to show multiple results together.
IBM Cognos, offers the full range of dashboards - operational, tactical, strategic - to help you monitor, measure, and manage corporate performance.
You can deploy IBM Cognos dashboards as a standalone application or as a core element of an enterprise business intelligence or performance management platform.
Scorecarding
Scorecarding helps you align your teams and tactics with strategy, communicate goals consistently, and monitor performance against targets.
More user communities
Use scorecard portlets to access and communicate scorecard content and encourage a broader use across your organization.
Hover over scorecard impact diagrams and instantly receive important metric information for you to act on without having to click anywhere to find it.
Add new strategic objectives and supporting metrics to scorecards and strategy maps without the need to rely on your IT group for assistance.