Departmental Solutions for the IT User

IT are often the department faced with delivering management information to the business because of their technical understanding of the source systems and their ability to extract and translate the data. But this approach has a number of downsides:-

• IT often cannot stop their current jobs to service the business each time a request for another report is made. This means that the business may not get the information when they need it.
• Sometimes the business and IT do not connect in terms of requirements and so the information provided is not exactly what was requested. This means the process must be gone through again, adding further delays, for the business.

With Cognos 8 BI, these problems are resolved.

Deliver all BI capabilities from a single product

• Single product and architecture with all capabilities: Reporting, analysis, scorecards, dashboards, business event management, as well as data integration.
• Simplified maintenance: Zero-footprint, browser-based deployment and administration. No duplication among BI capabilities.
• Increase BI adoption: One product meets the needs of your entire user base, from casual users to power users.
• Proven integration: Web services architecture simplifies deployment and administration. Single, open API lets you integrate with existing security, portals, and IT infrastructure. No single point of failure.

Serve all users with BI that matches their needs

• BI consumers: Delivers pixel-perfect reports to their desktops with secure Web portal access adaptable to mobile devices.
• Senior executives: Delivers scorecarding, dashboards, and reports for quick communication of complex data.
• Business managers: Delivers all BI capabilities, with drag-and-drop simplicity and the same zero-footprint interface.
• Professional authors/analysts: Delivers advanced features such as high-volume burst reports for distribution, full range of report elements and output types, and reporting and analysis against relational or multidimensional sources.
• IT administrators: Delivers a zero-footprint, browser-based environment, modular deployment, consistent metadata, and access to all corporate data on a Web services architecture.

Leverage all corporate data

• Open data strategy and common metadata: Common business rules, calculations, and filters consolidate your heterogeneous data into a consistent business view.
• Direct access: Leverage the information directly from existing sources including relational, OLAP, and other multidimensional data.
• EII: Access multiple disparate data sources in batch, historic, or real time. Use the built-in Enterprise Information Integration (EII) capability or third-party integration technologies.
• ETL: Integrate, cleanse, transform, and aggregate data for a consolidated historical view. A dimensional framework provides information formatted in the way business users think and optimized for all BI capabilities.