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IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Reporting
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Reporting is a key capability within IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence, a single product
that provides complete BI capabilities on a proven architecture.
Reporting gives you access to a complete list of self-serve report types, is adaptable
to any data source, and operates from a single metadata layer for a variety of benefits
such as multilingual reporting.
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Complete reporting coverage including business dashboards
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- One solution for all enterprise reporting and
dashboard requirements.
- Burst personalized reports to multiple locations and in multiple formats.
- User interface supports 10+ languages; reports delivered in 25+ languages.
- Multiple export formats: Excel, PDF, XML, HTML, and CSV.
- Flexible distribution methods: centralized access, email, application integration,
MS Office.
- Multilingual capabilities automatically deliver reports in users' working language.
- A single architecture for viewing, querying, analyzing, and authoring for collaborative
contributions to any report including
dashboards.
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Advanced authoring capabilities
- One authoring environment for creating all report types,
including dashboards.
- Intuitive and accessible self-service report authoring.
- Federated queries—one query drawing on multivendor data sources—even within a single
reporting object.
- Adaptive layout adjusts automatically when objects are added, moved or removed.
- Embed live applications, Web sites, and non-BI content within a report.
- Drag-and-drop authoring incorporates data, text, charts, graphs, and images.
- Edit reports with prompts and toolbar commands.
- Interactive visualizations
and charting abilities.
- Work with data using familiar business terms.
- Use a variety of charts: crosstabs, bar/3D bar, pie/doughnut, line, gauge, funnel,
scatter, dot density, waterfall, and more.
- Create complex, multi-page layouts using different data sources without programming
or workarounds.
- Conditional suppression and automatic calculations.
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Report against any data source
- Relational sources including Oracle, SQL, IBM, Teradata, Sybase, and ODBC.
- Dimensional sources such as IBM Cognos OLAP, SAP BW, Microsoft SSAS, Essbase, Oracle
10G, and IBM DB2 CubeViews.
- ERP systems like SAP, PeopleSoft, and Siebel.
- Modern sources including XML, Java beans, JDBC, LDAP, WSDL.
- Satellite sources such as Excel files, Access files, and flat files.
- Legacy and Mainframe systems such as VSAM, IMS, IDMS, and Cobol Copybooks.
- Content management data, including FileNet, Documentum, and OpenSoft.
- High-performance federated data access across all sources.
- Support for Windows, UNIX, and
Linux operating systems, including mixed platform deployments.
- SAP-certified
BAPI? and iViews, Certified Powered by SAP NetWeaver?.
- Single portal, metadata layer, and point of administration.
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Web-based deployment
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