| Features |
Benefits |
• Sophisticated filtering
|
• Filtering excludes unnecessary data and helps you
focus on only the most relevant information. |
| • Asymmetrical analysis |
• This provides easier recognition of key
performance factors and other business influences.
For
example, you can quickly build one analysis that shows
sales by geography together with sales by product, over
a period of time. |
| • Management of large data volumes |
• Cognos analysis manages large data volumes to
improve software performance and limit overwhelming
details. This allows you to perform faster, more focused
analysis. |
| •Business-oriented calculations |
• This provides deeper insight into trends,
changes, and other issues that can affect your business. |
| • Drill-through to the underlying
data |
• Cognos analysis lets you drill through to the
underlying information to isolate and understand
business performance or operational details. |
| • Flexible data modeling |
•The Cognos data modeling environment lets you
design your Power Cubes by visually defining dimensions,
levels, categories (members), measures, and other
multidimensional data structures. |
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Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Reporting
and Dashboards
IT professionals are challenged to provide the right
information to end-users at the right time. In response,
many organizations have deployed a variety of business
intelligence (BI), reporting, and dashboard software
products. Each requires concurrent support,
administration, and maintenance. Each may access
specific and different data sources and provide only
some of the required report options. IT managers have
been looking for a single, Webbased reporting solution
that can address all of their reporting needs. They
require a flexible solution that leverages existing IT
infrastructure, is truly scalable, and has the ability
to grow. Without completeness or ease of use, IT must
spend too many of its scarce resources to advance every
stage of the reporting lifecycle, from support
and maintenance, to creation, modification, and
distribution. |
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