Cognos 10.1

IBM Cognos 10.1 represents the beginning of a series of new innovations from IBM Business Analytics that will change how organizations make decisions, allocate resources, and predict and plan the future. This is your chance to see IBM Cognos 10.1 in-depth, to chat with product experts, and to start planning for your organization’s future – without leaving your office.

IBM Cognos 10.1 delivers a revolutionary new experience and expands traditional business intelligence (BI) with planning, scenario modeling, real-time monitoring and predictive analytics.

Business users can explore all aspects of their business with a limitless BI workspace that supports the way people think and work:
  • Freedom to think: A unified BI workspace delivers analytics everyone can use to answer key business questions
  • Connect with others: Collaboration and social networking capabilities let you build and share insights to gain alignment
  • Simply do: Mobile and real-time analytics bring insight to the point of maximum impact

Underlying IBM Cognos 10.1 is a proven technology platform that allows for seamless upgrades and cost-effective scalability for the broadest deployments.

With IBM Cognos 10.1, you and your organization gain the freedom to see more and do more—to make the smarter decisions that drive better business results.

Cognos 10.1 Capabilities

Cognos 10.1 helps your organization drive better decisions, achieve better results, and gain a deeper understanding of trends, opportunities, weaknesses and threats. Cognos 10.1 lets you explore any data, in any combination and over any time period with a broad range of analytics capabilities:

  • Query and Reporting: From professional report authors responsible for designing one-to-many reports for the enterprise, to business users who need the ability to create their own ad-hoc queries or customize existing reports, IBM Cognos 10.1 Business Intelligence Query and Reporting fits the needs of users across the organization. With IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Query and Reporting, users are equipped with the information they need to make fact-based decisions in a system that’s simpler, faster and easier to manage.
  • Analysis: Information silos, multiple platforms and excessive reliance on spreadsheets can hinder effective decision-making at a time when you need to make better decisions faster. IBM Cognos 10.1 analysis software helps every kind of user in your organization outperform by providing a full range of analysis capabilities.
  • Scorecarding: IBM Cognos 10.1 Business Intelligence Scorecarding automates the strategy management process, enabling organizations to monitor, measure and manage their business metrics against strategic and operational objectives throughout the organization.
  • Dashboarding: IBM Cognos 10.1 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.
  • Real-time Monitoring: IBM Cognos 10.1 features real-time monitoring capabilities for consumers of actionable business intelligence that provides an organization’s frontline employees with a rich view of operational KPIs and measures to support up-to the-moment decision making.
  • Statistics: IBM Cognos 10.1 Statistics makes 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. Cognos Statistics also helps validate business information, and drive business decisions by incorporating statistical evidence in reports that can be delivered easily to broader business communities.
  • Planning and Budgeting: IBM Cognos 10.1 enterprise planning and analytics solutions support a full range of business requirements: from high-performance, on-demand customer and profitability analysis and flexible modeling to enterprise contribution for a broad range of users—from manufacturing, sales and service to finance, human resources and marketing. You can rapidly create, compare and evaluate business scenarios, conditions, drivers, rates and assumptions so that you proceed from “what-is” to evaluate what-if scenarios critical to forecasting or re-forecasting future performance.
  • Extending BI: The powerful capabilities surrounding IBM Cognos 10.1 Business Intelligence let you extend consistent, trusted and relevant Business Intelligence (BI), when, where and how it is needed, all at a reasonable cost and with minimal training.
  • Collaborative BI: IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence provides built-in collaborative and social networking capabilities to fuel the exchange of ideas and knowledge that naturally occurs in decision-making processes today.
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