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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.
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.
New features!
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Increased
visual appeal includes new background
designs and colors. Users can add
gradient colors and behind charts.
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New chart
types: Merimekko, Stepline, Sparkline, Sparkbar, Spark Win/Loss
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Report
annotations: Users can add comments
directly within the body of
HTML-rendered reports.
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Enhanced
suppression: Suppress all types of
reports against relational,
dimensionally-modeled relational, and OLAP sources. Also, users can also suppress rows, columns, or rows and columns based on "zero" values, "divide by zero" values, missing values, and overflow values.
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Extended
filters now include wildcards, range,
and between operations.
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Associated frames now drill together.
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Strategy
Maps and Impact Diagrams now available
as portlets that can be integrated into Cognos Connection, IBM WebSphere, and MS Sharepoint portals.
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Data
lineage: Users can access and view major
transformations to data as it moves
through the system. |
More targeted information
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Use tabbed portlet pages to navigate across multi-style, multi-page reports with critical information.
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Use
briefing books to maximize your
professional report presentation with
customized page orientation, horizontal
pagination, multiple tables of content,
and personalized 'no data' scenarios.
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Schedule
and burst multi-page reports to ensure
that stakeholders receive relevant,
consistent, and timely information.
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Save and
store reports to any LAN location to
save time, increase convenience, and
facilitate easy access to reports and
information.
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Use
global filters to update the content
across multiple objects in a portal
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More user communities
Allow business analysts to quickly and intuitively create and format statement-style reports with live data with the express authoring mode.
Complete reporting coverage
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User
interface supports 10+ languages;
reports delivered in 25+ languages.
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Multiple
export formats: Excel, PDF, XML, HTML,
and CSV.
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Flexible
distribution methods: centralized
access, email, application integration,
and Microsoft Office.
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A single
architecture for viewing, querying,
analyzing, and authoring for
collaborative contributions to any
report including dashboards.
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Report
against any heterogeneous data source.
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Web-based
deployment. |
Advanced authoring capabilities
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Intuitive
and accessible self-service report
authoring.
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Federated
queries.
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Adaptive
layout adjusts automatically when
objects are added, moved, or removed.
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Embed live
applications, Web sites, and non-BI
content within a report.
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Drag-and-drop authoring incorporates
data, text, charts, graphs, and images.
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Edit
reports with prompts and toolbar
commands.
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Interactive
visualizations and charting abilities.
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Work with
data using familiar business terms.
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Use a
variety of charts: crosstabs, bar/3D
bar, pie/doughnut, line, gauge, funnel,
scatter, dot density, waterfall, and
more.
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Create
complex, multi-page layouts using
different data sources without
programming or workarounds.
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Conditional
suppression and automatic calculations |
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