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IBM Cognos Express

IBM® Cognos® Express is the first and only fully integrated business intelligence (BI) and planning solution purpose-built to meet the needs of midsize companies. It delivers the essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that midsize companies need at a price they can afford. Everything is included in a pre-configured solution that is easy to install, easy to use and easy to buy. There are three product editions: 

  • Cognos Express Reporter - for reporting and adhoc query
  • Cognos Express Adviser - freeform analysis and visualization
  • Cognos Express Xcelerator - for Microsoft® Excel® based planning and business analysis. 

 

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IBM Cognos Express Reporter meets all of your reporting needs with complete self-service reporting and ad hoc query capabilities. It empowers business users to access, modify or author reports quickly and easily.

IBM Cognos Express Reporter delivers:

  • Simple, intuitive, drag-and-drop authoring capabilities that are easily accessible from a Web browser for self-service reporting by any user, from novice to expert.

  • A common metadata model that presents information to users in business terms they understand, so they can be productive right away.

  • Access to all corporate data in any combination, including relational, analytical OLAP or even desktop files for comprehensive, accurate reporting.

  • Broad report coverage to meet the needs of different users, including financial, production, operational, transactional, managed or ad hoc reports.

  • Flexible report delivery that includes the ability to write once and immediately publish reports to the Web, PDF files, Excel spreadsheets, email messages and the IBM Cognos Express Web portal.

  • Interactive dashboards that can be shared company-wide and support collaborative feedback.

  • The ability to easily maintain and update a report throughout its life cycle using a common, shared interface that can be accessed by all business users. 

 

IBM Cognos Express Advisor gives business users and analysts at midsize companies the ability to quickly analyze complex data and easily share business insights with high-impact visualization. Its write-back capabilities enable users to take immediate action for the most effective business outcomes.

  • Includes a fast and powerful in-memory analytics server that quickly connects to operational data sources and creates a dimensional view of your business.

  • Uses simple drill-down and drill-up capabilities and flexible graphic displays for quick analysis of key areas, such as customers, products and geographies.

  • Includes bar, line, area, pie, radar, bubble, scatter and range charts and graphs, plus geo maps and heat/performance maps for high-impact visualization.

  • Offers self-service analytics through an intuitive Web-based interface.

  • Provides flexible delivery throughout the company using Web-based dashboards and interactive reports that encourage wide user adoption.

  • Can be used with other IBM Cognos Express modules as part of a single, integrated BI and planning solution purpose-built for midsize companies.

 

 

IBM Cognos Express Xcelerator extends and transforms the familiar Excel front-end with a powerful in-memory analytics engine. It’s perfectly suited for multi-dimensional analysis and strategic planning tasks, enabling a new level of insight and action, as well as speed.

  • Transform Excel to quickly deliver multi-dimensional business analysis and planning.

  • Build and test business scenarios with powerful “what-if” modeling.

  • Update plans immediately using write-back capabilities.

  • Take advantage of existing Excel skills and investments while overcoming the risks and limitations of spreadsheet-only processes.

  • Eliminate data silos and inconsistencies throughout the organization with centrally managed data, business hierarchies, rules and calculations.

  • Use with other IBM Cognos Express modules for a single, integrated BI and planning solution purpose-built for midsize companies.

 
 
Emerging Business Intelligence (BI) technology will enable the adoption of BI by small and mid-sized businesses, as well as the delivery of BI as a service. This compelling argument is made In a new publication by IBM that features research from Gartner. A key quote from this publication summarizes the argument:
 
“While earlier generations of Business Intelligence (BI) and analytic tools were indeed sized, priced and configured to appeal to enterprise organizations, that’s changing. Midsize enterprises that may have tried – and failed – to implement an enterprise solution, settled with using excel-based spreadsheets for all their needs or, worse, opted themselves out of the market entirely, are no longer forced to do so. This is critically important for these organizations, as they often find themselves in the same competitive ring as the largest companies. They’re forced, in a sense, to fight above their weight class and as a result require greater insight and agility to outflank their larger competitors. In-memory analytics will level the playing field for midsize organizations”.
 
To read this publication and see how Cognos Express leverages this emerging technology, follow the link below:
 
 
 
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