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IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Analysis
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Analysis is a key capability within IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence, a single product
that provides complete BI capabilities on a proven architecture.
Analysis enables the guided exploration and analysis of information that pertains
to all dimensions of your business-regardless of where the data is stored. Analyze
and report against online analytical processing (OLAP) and dimensionally aware relational
sources.
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Robust analysis tools
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- Perform complex analysis quickly and easily to get to the “why” behind an event
or action to improve business performance.
- Analyze what's driving your business with data organized in logical categories such
as fiscal periods, sales regions, and product groups.
- Move from summary level to transaction level detail, or from one PowerCube to another
until you find the information you are looking for.
- Sophisticated time trending with built-in customizable time series analysis lets
you analyze what has changed over previous years, quarters, months, and other critical
measures. No other vendor provides as sophisticated a time trending capability as
IBM Cognos.
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Easy to use
- Explore large complex data sets using drag-and-drop techniques. Drill down through
increasing levels of detail, and view by different dimensions such as sales per
region or by product.
- View and analyze data relationships graphically and change displays easily. Industry-leading
functionality means end-users can easily drill down, slice and dice, rank, sort,
forecast, and nest information to gain greater insight into trends, causes, and
effects.
- A common XML-based report format means that a report can be opened in whatever client
suits a user’s needs.
- User-friendly interface makes multidimensional analysis simple for all users, regardless
of their business or technical level.
- The Windows, Web, and Excel clients mean that users can work within a familiar environment—maximizing
ROI and decreasing training costs.
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Easy to deploy
- Convert one billion consolidated rows and two million categories from multiple data
sources into compact PowerCubes ready for analysis.
- Through the IBM Cognos open data strategy, analysis supports all widely used OLAP data
sources as well as dimensionally aware relational sources.
- Seamless integration with third-party cubes and OLAP servers lets you maximize return
on Oracle,
Microsoft, SAP BW, and
IBM resources you already own; as well as dimensionally modeled relational
sources.
- IBM Cognos analysis processes and summarizes data in the application layer and only
returns results at a summary level, conserving bandwidth and optimizing network
efficiency.
- Competing solutions cannot scale cubes as large as ours, and may require database
design and additional programming to achieve adequate performance.
- Superior multidimensional modeling capabilities, with support for all data sources,
comprehensive logging and check points, automated cube builds, and centralized security
and administration provide optimal manageability for IT.
- Advanced multidimensional modeling, time-dependant processing, alternate drill paths,
distinct category counts, and time-based partitioned PowerCubes create a flexible
design environment that streamlines development and enhances ROI.
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