Cognos Business Intelligence is an integrated business intelligence suite offered by IBM to help you understand your organization’s data and use it to make effective decisions. The capabilities of this software extend from reports to statistics and analysis. It’s a valuable, easy-to-use resource that allows users to answer three questions: How are we doing? Why? What should we be doing?
Cognos Business Intelligence provides you with the tools to make your business successful. By being able to monitor your operations in real-time and input “what if” scenarios, you’re able to make smart decisions and protect your organization.
Features and Benefits
With Cognos Business Intelligence, IBM delivers software that’s easy-to-use and effective–key components to any new tool. Users are able to jump right in and start analyzing and visualizing data with very little need for IT support. They’re able to assess facts, develop strategy, and adjust plans right from the get-go. And they’re able to do so thanks to a number of key features.
Reports
As part of this business intelligence suite, you can generate personalized web-based reports. From simple charts to sophisticated, multiple-page, multiple-query reports including invoices, statements and weekly sales and inventory reports.
Analysis
Using an interactive drag-and-drop interface, users can quickly and easily explore and analyze data to find answers to business questions. IBM analysis capabilities enable users to analyze information wherever and whenever they need with fully interactive, personalized workspaces for the web, mobile, and the desktop.
Real-time Monitoring
View and respond to critical real-time information–that which affects your business–from a central location. Whether you’re looking for an up-to-the-minute big picture view or want to drill down on a specific aspect of your business and reveal detailed information, you can do so. Alerts notify you about exceptional events and task lists indicate actions that are being taken for each exceptional event.
