IBM Cognos Analytics

Query & Reporting
- Professional report authors can design, build and securely distribute multilingual reports to the enterprise
- Business users can easily create their own reports on the fly
- The mobile workforce can access and interact with reports on mobile devices
- Web-based, drag-and-drop content authoring interface designed for business users
- Relational or dimensional data
- Multiple data layouts and visualizations
- Styles and formatting
- Format, layout, and distribution
- Incorporate external data
- Users with little or no training can quickly design, create, and save ad-hoc queries and reports to meet reporting needs
- Drill-down capabilities and exception management.
- Business-defined alerts.
- Robust self-service query, reporting and analysis.
- Simplified administration.
- Centralized security.
Analysis
- Access all the information—at all angles and perspectives—they need to drive informed decisions
- Validate key information and drive business decisions by incorporating statistical evidence in reports
- Perform complex analysis tasks quickly and easily to get to the “why” behind an event or action
- Power of predictive analytics into the hands of business users


Dashboarding
- Access and interact with dashboards regardless of language or location with mobile applications
- Distribute dashboards and integrate them with IBM® Connections for improved collaboration and alignment
- Schedule, burst and distribute professionally authored dashboards to a broad audience of consumers including those who need disconnected access to their dashboards
- Analyse information and share the results to follow a train of thought or generate a unique perspective
Scorecarding
- Align strategy with operations
- Communicate strategy and track your progress
- Ensure accountability for performance
- Share with more user communities
- Enjoy simple deployment and administration


Rich BI in Mobile applications
- Support where users need to work with business intelligence capabilities for the office and desktop, on mobile devices, online and offline
- Using IBM business intelligence mobile apps for Apple, BlackBerry and Android
- Experience insight wherever you are through quick and simple access to business intelligence
- Interact with information like never before in a rich, visual and interactive experience
- Confidently and easily deploy relevant and reusable business intelligence to any device
- IBM Cognos® Active Report provides an interactive analytics experience in a self-contained BI application for browsing and exploring data offline