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IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence delivers the complete range of BI capabilities on a single, service-oriented architecture. IBM Cognos 8 delivers all these capabilities through a 100 percent, zero-footprint web browser interface for all users.
Cognos Connection is the portal interface to IBM Cognos 8, a Web application for creating, editing, and administering ad hoc and managed reports. You can use the portal:
- to view, create and edit reports
- to perform online analysis of reports and cubes
- to create and manage events and distribute scheduled reports
- to add portlets or otherwise customise the portal to meet your specific needs
For more information on IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence contact us. Or register now for an upcoming workshop.
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In the area of planning, budgeting and forecasting, IBM Cognos 8 Planning provides a functionally rich and mature offering which includes integration with Microsoft Excel.
The web application, Contributor, offers both client side and server-side processing but the key feature is that the user downloads a planning model via the web that runs on the local user’s machine. Consequently, there is no delay in sending information to and from the server in order to have simple calculations executed as these are performed by the local machine.
Individual applications can be designed to be used by specific functions e.g. cost centres or marketing or sales. Each can consist of multiple grids and cubes that can process data such as passing it to other cubes in the application and other applications.
Contributor has work flow, an auditing capability and can be extended to thousands of users. The application also allows for the capture of text both as a cell entry and a cell annotation. Individual applications are relatively non-technical to develop and hence can be largely maintained and developed by non-IT staff.
IBM Cognos 8 Planning has sophisticated calculation functionality with its Built in Functions of particular note. These generally make reference to the time dimension such that closing balances become opening balances automatically even after changing the time dimension itself. Other examples include NPV, lagged variables and even Erlang calculations for call centre management.
The client server version, Analyst, allows large single models to be built and these can be linked to user friendly flow charts. Data can also be passed from such models to the Contributor.
For more information on IBM Cognos Planning contact us. Or register now for an upcoming workshop.
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IBM Cognos TM1 software provides a real-time approach to consolidating, viewing, and editing enormous volumes of multidimensional data.
IBM Cognos TM1 offers:
- Improved planning, analytics, and "what-if" scenario modeling.
- Agile, self-service analysis and optimization of large, highly complex, rapidly changing data sets with real-time response.
- Unmatched abilities to analyze profitability, sales mix, and price/volume variance.
- High performance, real-time, read-write capabilities.
IBM Cognos TM1 software provides a strong complement to the existing suite of products including IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and IBM Cognos 8 Planning.
For more information on Cognos IBM Cognos TM1 contact us. Or register now for an upcoming workshop.
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