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Analysis • Data Marts • Planning • Reporting • Scorecarding
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is the
first all-in-one reporting software that lets you create, modify, and
distribute any report your company requires—invoices, statements, weekly
sales and inventory reports. You can standardize all enterprise reporting
not simply with one vendor—with one product and architecture.
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence eliminates the need for multiple reporting tools and the
resulting costs due to duplicated training, maintenance, administration,
servers, support, and lack of consistency in the information users need to
make decisions.
The software is simple to manage, with zero-footprint deployment,
scalability to support hundreds of thousands of users, and ability to
integrate with any application or environment you have.
 Most
importantly, Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is easy for users. Even the most novice of
users can build all manner of reports with drag-and-drop simplicity. Yet,
its powerful features satisfy advanced users' need to create complex queries
and dynamic, multi-object reports. Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is an integrated
component of comprehensive BI from Cognos.
Comprehensive reporting coverage. Author and deliver
queries, managed reports for many users, power-user business reports, and
batch-type production reporting.
New dynamic, multi-object reports. Create reports
containing any number of report objects—charts, cross tabs, and lists—as
well as non-BI components such as images, logos, and live embedded
applications that can be linked to the information. Queries can draw data
from any database or a combination of databases and be linked together or
left as independent.
 Multilingual,
out-of-the-box. The user interface supports English, French,
German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Spanish, Finnish, Swedish, and
Italian. Report content can be delivered in more than 25 languages.
Completely Web-based. Built on Web services technologies,
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence can be easily integrated with any application or
environment.
SAP BW support. Gain more value from your SAP BW investment
with enhanced reporting that leverages your security, portal, and data
model, for a greater return. Unite SAP BW with other enterprise applications
or data sources to give users a single version of the truth.
Proven scalability. In deployments ranging from 20,000 to
50,000 named users, Cognos 8 Business Intelligence delivered average report view times of
less then 2.5 seconds. In production reporting tests, Cognos 8 Business
Intelligence
yielded 78 pages per second—6.7 million report pages per day.
Flexible report presentation. Users can arrange report
objects on the page simply by dragging and dropping them into the report
authoring window. The adaptive report authoring environment automatically
arranges report objects in the window each time one is added or removed.
 Integrated
with Cognos BI. Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is tightly integrated with the
other Cognos BI components. You can embed Cognos PowerPlay Web applications
and Cognos Visualizer dashboards, charts and maps in its reports. Cognos
NoticeCast alerts can include hyperlinks to Cognos 8 Business Intelligence reports. Cognos
Metrics Manager's "reporting tab" can embed Cognos 8 Business
Intelligence reports as live
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