Cognos recently launched Cognos 8 BI v3 in the Philippines which includes new and enhanced BI user capabilities and advances in its SOA-based enterprise-class platform.
These new developments are designed to efficiently provide organizations with more targeted performance information across a broader and more diverse range of decision-makers, with extended modeling and administration capabilities to simplify deployment and maintenance for administrators.
Cognos 8 BI v3 is the third major release of Cognos’ business intelligence flagship that was introduced in 2005. It addresses the needs of large enterprises and mid-market organizations alike as they capitalize on their ERP investments and turn data into actionable, relevant performance information for improved decision-making across industries. New highly targeted information delivery and improved analysis capabilities let knowledge workers, ranging from front-line managers to executives, receive strategic business information where, when and how they need it to make better decisions. New deployment and administration advances also make it easier for IT administrators to deploy and manage their performance management environment, while growing their user communities.
The new user capabilities of Cognos 8 BI v3 that deliver more targeted information to more user communities include:
- Express Authoring Mode: Provides a self-service, streamlined, purpose-built reporting interface for finance and business analysts to access financial and operational data sources and create financial, statement style reports. Optimized to support cross tabulations, Express Authoring gives these users the simplified environment required to easily create and publish these reports using consistent information from their enterprise BI platform.
- Business Driven Modeling with New Transformer Capabilities: Provides business groups with the ability to easily create and manage their own perspectives of performance information by creating new OLAP cubes with the consistent information in their enterprise BI platform. Business analysts, for example, can use Cognos 8 BI to construct smaller, faster data sets of very specific, relevant line of business performance information for more targeted exploration, analysis and faster decision-making. This capability satisfies the unique requirements of line of business workers while leveraging existing IT investments and retaining IT oversight on all user community information.
- Scorecard Portlets: Through Cognos Connection, the BI portal-based dashboard, business users and executives can now save time by accessing all of their organization’s relevant strategy management, scorecard information and diagrams in one comprehensive, at-a-glance view. This capability helps organizations efficiently provide more visibility into company strategy to ensure cross-functional alignment through execution.
- Briefing Books: Briefing books help busy IT administrators or line of business users address special requests from senior management for a comprehensive view of performance information. Professional authors can combine different styles and formats within a single report, making it easy for executives to navigate and print multi-style, multi-page reports that contain related, critical business information.
- Self-service Personal Alerts: Business users can create their own timely personalized alerts for scheduled reports, controlling when and how they receive critical performance information relevant to their specific area of responsibility. This capability personalizes and streamlines the reporting experience for end users and frees IT from having to deliver specialized reports on demand.
New components of the Cognos 8 enterprise-class platform that ease deployment and management include:
- Model Advisor
- Snapshot of System Health
- Proactive Administration
- Upgrade Manager
Nexus Technologies Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Cognos 8 BI V3 in the Philippines.
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