Departmental Solutions for the Business User

As business continues to move at an ever faster pace, the need for the business user to have the information they need, when they need it is becoming ever more essential. No longer is it acceptable for them to wait for information or for information to be inaccurate or incomplete and with the technological advances made in recent years, they expect the information to be presented in their own preferred format.

The pervasive nature of the Internet, mobile devices such as Blackberry’s and the increasing emphasis on Microsoft office products, means business users are becoming ever more demanding with their information needs.

Thankfully Cognos 8 BI can address all of these issues and many more besides.

Work with information your way

Cognos 8 BI supplies the complete range of information and capabilities you need to support your decisions and guide your work day.

• Stay connected: Use managed reports, scorecards, dashboards, and alerts.
• Find the answers: Build reports and queries to address your questions.
• Explore trends: Perform in-depth, comparative analysis.

Business intelligence that fits your role

• Information you need: Depending on your job, you may need regular reports, vital signs at-a-glance, up-to-date reports, or the ability to dive more deeply into information. Use information the way you want.
• Presented for you: Get the portal and user interface that fits your needs, rather than a generic one for highly technical users.
• Better collaboration: Everyone using the same system and common data increases collaboration across roles and functions.

See all the data you need

• Complete access to your data: Connect systems such as operations, resources, customers, and finance to deliver a common business view of your data and answer all your questions.
• Data consistency: Gain a single business view of your corporate data. Be confident that you and your colleagues are working with the same numbers.
• Reduce your time to action: Unite your corporate data, so departments, divisions, and business units can easily share information from different sources. Spend less time gathering information or reconciling incompatible data.