Hello Friends,
Go ahead with new suppliers those provide Business Intelligence software’s.
Lets see about IBM COGNOS.
IBM:
IBM is under the direction of Samuel J. Palmisano, chairman of the board and CEO. The company, founded in 1911, manufactures and sells computer hardware and software. Today, it has revenues of approximately $100 billion. The company’s Business Intelligence offering is called Cognos 10 BI. The software helps companies with decision-making that enables them to understand trends, opportunities, weaknesses, and threats. Cognos 10 allows users to explore data in combination and over time using analytics.
IBM Cognos business intelligence (BI) and performance management solutions deliver world-leading enterprise planning, consolidation and BI software, support and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance.
With the ability to interact, search and assemble all perspectives of your business, Cognos Business Intelligence provides a limitless BI workspace to support how people think and work. It delivers the complete range of BI capabilities: query and reporting, analysis, dashboarding and scorecarding on a single, service-oriented architecture (SOA). And it expands traditional business intelligence (BI) with planning, scenario modeling, real-time monitoring, collaboration and predictive analytics, to extend your BI capabilities.
Query and Reporting:
Cognos query and reporting capabilities ensure users are equipped with the information they need to make fact-based decisions in a system that’s simpler, faster and easier to manage. From professional report authors who design one-to-many reports for the enterprise, to business users who need to create their own ad-hoc queries or customize existing reports, Cognos query and reporting capabilities fits the needs of users across the organization.
Analysis:
Cognos analysis capabilities allows all users to explore information easily and intuitively to drive better, smarter business decisions. From general business users who can easily view, assemble and analyze the information required to make smarter decisions, to business and financial analysts who need more advanced, predictive or what-if analysis capabilities, Cognos analysis capabilities enable all users across the organization to outperform.
Dashboarding:
Cognos dashboard capabilities allow any user to access, interact and personalize content in a way that supports the unique way they make decisions. Secure access to information from all time horizons including Business Intelligence, Real-time Monitoring, SPSS and Cognos TM1 means that users can quickly move from insight to action.
Scorecarding:
Cognos scorecarding capabilities enable organizations to capture corporate strategy and communicate that strategy at the operational level. It helps executives and managers provide quantifiable goals and targets and allows them to track performance across business units, operating subsidiaries and geographic regions to quickly identify the areas that need attention.
Real-time Monitoring:
Cognos features real-time monitoring capabilities for consumers of actionable business intelligence. It provides an organization’s frontline employees with a rich view of operational KPIs and measures to support up-to the-moment decision making.
Statistics:
Cognos statistics capabilities, powered by IBM SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) Statistics Engine, make it easy to incorporate statistical results with core business reporting, reducing the time it takes to analyze data and prepare business presentations based on that analysis.
Extending BI:
Empower users across your organization with the business intelligence (BI) they need to make effective, fact-based decisions. Cognos Business Intelligence provides solutions to ensure users have consistent, trusted and relevant BI, when, where and how they need it, with Cognos Mobile, Cognos Active Report, Cognos for Microsoft Office and Cognos Mashup Service.
Collaborative BI:
Collaboration capabilities within Cognos Business Intelligence facilitate decision-making for groups and teams. With this solution, users can build stronger relationships and learn from history with a centralized, searchable corporate memory. Cognos Collaboration helps teams maximize their efficiency and ensure the most effective use of resources when making important decisions.
Feature support ratings for BI:
It support for all database,Cognos provide services for all industry type,it works in all platforms.
Cognos delivered in On-Premises. On-premises software is installed and run on computers on the premises (in the Building) of the person or organisation using the software, rather than at a remote facility, such as at a server farm somewhere on the internet.
Will see new BI Suppliers in upcoming Posts.
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