Cognos Express Features
IBM Cognos Express Reporter … is reporting software that delivers complete, self-service reporting and ad hoc query capabilities for midsize companies.
IBM Cognos Express Reporter empowers business users to access, modify or create reports quickly and easily. It meets all of your reporting needs with a self-service design that helps reduce the cost and time needed to share information throughout an organisation.
- Delivers the full breadth of reporting capabilities, including financial, production, operational, transactional, managed or ad hoc reports.
- Provides a complete, consistent view of information throughout a company so users work with the same accurate data at all times.
- Offers flexible reporting capabilities and access to all corporate data in any combination for comprehensive, accurate reporting.
- Has simple, intuitive, drag-and-drop authoring capabilities for self-service reporting by any user.
- Can be used with other IBM Cognos Express modules as part of a single, integrated BI and planning solution purpose-built for midsize companies.
IBM Cognos Express Advisor … is analysis software that quickly translates raw data into sophisticated analysis with rich visual presentations.
IBM Cognos Express Advisor gives business users and analysts at midsize companies the ability to quickly analyse complex data and easily share business insights with high-impact visualisation. Its write-back capabilities enable users to take immediate action for the most effective business outcomes.
- Includes a fast and powerful in-memory analytics server that quickly connects to operational data sources and creates a dimensional view of your business.
- Uses simple drill-down and drill-up capabilities and flexible graphic displays for quick analysis of key areas, such as customers, products and geographies.
- Includes high-impact visualisations and charts, including bar, line, area, pie, radar, bubble, scatter and range charts and graphs, plus geo maps, dial indicators and heat/performance maps.
- Offers self-service access to analytics for all users through an intuitive Web-based interface.
- Produces powerful dashboards that can be created quickly and shared instantly throughout the organisation.
- Can be used with other IBM Cognos Express modules as part of a single, integrated BI and planning solution purpose-built for midsize companies.
IBM Cognos Express Xcelerator … transforms common spreadsheets for real-time, Excel-based business analysis and optimisation.
IBM Cognos Express Xcelerator extends and transforms the Microsoft Excel front-end with a powerful in-memory analytics engine. It’s perfectly suited for multidimensional business analysis and “what-if” scenario modeling, enabling a new level of insight and action for better business outcomes.
- Transform Excel to quickly deliver powerful multidimensional business analysis based on trusted information.
- Build and test business scenarios with powerful “what-if” modeling.
- Take advantage of existing Excel skills and investments while overcoming the risks and limitations of spreadsheet-only processes.
- Update plans immediately using write-back capabilities to align the right resources to capitalise on new opportunities.
- Eliminate data silos and inconsistencies throughout the organisation with centrally managed data, business hierarchies, rules and calculations.
- Use with other IBM Cognos Express modules for a single, integrated BI and planning solution purpose-built for midsize companies.
IBM Cognos Express Planner … provides planning, budgeting and forecasting software purpose-built for midsize companies.
IBM Cognos Express Planner transforms a company’s planning processes, enabling business users to react quickly to changing business conditions. It replaces slow, cumbersome manual planning processes with automated daily, weekly or monthly planning tools using the latest, accurate data.
- Provides a flexible, structured planning process that is easy to deploy and use.
- Blends a managed workflow with personalised analysis for improved business agility.
- Provides an easy-to-use, Web-based interface for finance and non-finance users to contribute plan data and view current plans with no “coding” skills required.
- Enables managers to monitor the status of every participant in the planning process to assess the maturity of the planning cycle and eliminate delays in adapting plans.
- Handles large numbers of contributors using an in-memory analytics server for real-time processing.
- Can be used with other IBM Cognos Express modules for a single, integrated BI and planning solution purpose-built for midsize companies.
