IBM Cognos BI (Business Intelligence)

As an accredited reseller, Focus provides expert consulting services in Cognos BI. We have deep expertise in Cognos 8, Cognos 10, Cognos Express & TM1.

Cognos BI delivers the complete range of Business Intelligence capabilities (Reporting, Analysis, Scorecarding and Dashboarding) on a single, service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Licensed Cognos users can author, share, and use reports that draw on data across all enterprise sources for better business decisions.

As part of the IBM Business Analytics platform, Cognos BI users can also leverage TM1 - as an in-memory OLAP source, and/or for data capture to support planning and budgeting processes.

In addition, the Cognos product range includes templated solutions for selected business functions and commonly deployed source systems.

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

IBM Cognos BI Reporting

IBM Cognos 8 BI Reporting gives users 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. With these reporting capabilities, users can personalize the style and quality of BI delivered to your key stakeholders; and you expand the community of BI users.

IBM Cognos BI Analysis

IBM Cognos 8 BI Analysis based on the OLAP and analysis software, IBM Cognos PowerPlay, the analysis capability with this product expands this functionality to cover a complete range of data sources and to provide seamless movement among reports, queries, and analysis. Enables the guided exploration of information that pertains to all dimensions of your business, regardless of where the data is stored.

IBM Cognos BI Dashboards

IBM Cognos 8 BI Dashboards provides a full range of visually appealing and information-rich dashboards; from operational, tactical, and strategic. It helps companies monitor, measure, and manage corporate performance.

IBM Cognos BI Scorecarding

IBM Cognos 8 BI Scorecarding allows business users to manage the full scope of their business processes and metrics, including discrete projects at the tactical level or corporate-wide performance management strategies and across business units, operating subsidiaries or geographic regions.

IBM Cognos BI Business Event Management

IBM Cognos 8 BI Business Event Management tracks significant events that need attention. It monitors these events and uses decision-process and business-process automation to compress the time to action and resolution.

IBM Cognos Business Viewpoint

IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint provides a data modeling environment that gives business and financial analysts the ability to maintain, govern, and share the data models they need to optimize business performance.

IBM Cognos Financial Performance Analytics

IBM Cognos 8 Financial Performance Analytics is an integrated analytic application that enables the business to pull information from diverse databases using packaged, user-configurable reporting tools. It provides a real-time, in-depth view of data and enables the finance team—from controllers to business managers—to make faster decisions, respond quickly to new opportunities and improve financial performance.

IBM Cognos Workforce Performance

IBM Cognos 8 Workforce Performance offers pre-packaged analytic application that provides interactive insight into workforce issues. With consolidated reporting from multiple systems, it can analyze factors such as workforce strength, talent acquisition, talent development, talent retention, employee performance, and compensation.

IBM Cognos Go! products

Cognos typically engages with users through the web and email alerts. Users can subscribe to be notified of updated content which interests them.

Cognos Go! adapters are included with Cognos BI, to allow it to reach users beyond the usual web and email alerts.

Cognos Go! components, when deployed, allow Cognos users to make use of Cognos Content wherever they are. For instance:

Report content can be integrated with documents by Microsoft Office users (Go! Office)
Mobile device users can explore cube content as well as reports (Go! Mobile)
Cognos report content can appear alongside other Search results to users of your Enterprise Search Engine (Go! Search)
Dashboard Objects can be combined by users into existing Portlet Layouts (Go! Dashboard)

These Go! adapters have gone under significant enhancement and change with the release of Cognos 10.1 and clients using or interested in these modules are encouraged to contact us for more detailed information.