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IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search
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IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search enables everyday users to find reports, scorecards, and other
content created in IBM Cognos
8 Business Intelligence. |
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Increase business intelligence adoption rates
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IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search belongs to the IBM Cognos 8 Go! family of
consumer modes designed to help you increase business intelligence user
adoption rates within your organization.
These consumer modes let users view and consume BI content using familiar applications
or devices, such as a
BlackBerry?, search
engine, MS Office
application, or Web browser.
IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search provides users with a familiar, browser-based search bar, sophisticated
ranking of results, and the ability to easily fine-tune those results.
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Value for business users |
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- Easy search: Search full data content of reports, as well as titles,
descriptions, and metadata layers. Boolean logic, phrases, and word stemming helps
users fine-tune search terms and eliminate ambiguity.
- Most relevant data: Sophisticated ranking and contextual support
of search criteria delivers the most relevant data. Customers can find related BI
information from directly within reports using contextual search prompts.
- Fast results: IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search fully indexes existing BI content
and supports the ability to specify search criteria using industry-standard tips
and tricks, helping users find the right information quickly.
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Search relational, OLAP, and unstructured data |
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- Relational data sources supported by
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence.
- ERP data sources such as SAP BW, SAP R/3, and Siebel CRM.
- Unstructured and modern data sources available through the Composite Information
Server.
- OLAP sources including IBM Cognos PowerCubes?, Microsoft Analysis Services, and IBM
DB2 OLAP/Essbase.
- IBM Cognos Planning and IBM Cognos Finance cubes.
- IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search indexes hierarchies, dimensions, categories, and measures.
- Metadata for reports or analyses built using
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence capabilities with OLAP data sources.
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Make BI widely available to more people |
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Users can access IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search in five ways:
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Increase the ROI from your BI investment |
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- Increase user self-service and reduce your report creation backlog.
- Reduce the creation of redundant reports, as users can easily find existing reports.
- Less workload, since IT will not need to create and maintain drill paths between
related reports.
- A consistent security model. IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search is an integrated part of IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
and uses the IBM Cognos 8 BI security model. Users will be only granted access to the
reports, metrics, and analysis that they have been given permission to view.
- Built on open standards; can easily be integrated into any portal application.
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Read the IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search Fact Sheet |
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