Cognos
Cognos is a premium Business Intelligence software suite; tracing its lineage in corporate reporting solutions right back to the early 1970’s. Over the years Cognos has both continually developed its own offerings and also acquired key emerging technologies along the way to develop a truly comprehensive BI offering. The 2009/10 acquisition by IBM for $5 billion is absolute proof of its position at the top of the BI and financial planning tree.
At the heart of the Cognos product line-up is the Cognos 10 BI Suite a fully featured package, offering the following key components:
• Report Studio – Pixel perfect enterprise grade reports and presentations
• Query Studio – Easy browsing and querying of data for the casual user
• Analysis Studio – Multi-dimensional (OLAP) querying, reporting and data-cubes
• Metric Studio – Balanced score-carding and KPIs
• Event Studio – Automated monitoring of data conditions and tolerances
• Mobile Applications – BI on your Smartphone or PDA
In addition to the BI suite, Cognos also offer two tools for financial planning and consolidation, Enterprise Planning (EP) and TM1, both of which are available from Influential to transform your planning and budgetary cycle into a consolidated workflow, freeing you from consolidating spreadsheets and manual overhead.
To manage your enterprise data, Cognos offer their Framework Manager tool which allows you to map all your information sources into a format that can be easily understood, queried and re-packaged by users. All this is managed through a central portal allowing simple searching and management of reports, dashboards and RSS feeds in one consolidated location.
In order to leverage this BI firepower, the expert management of data sources underneath and configuration of the user interface is required. Influential has proven methods for designing, configuring and deploying Cognos Framework Manager across your data, which makes report writing and producing analyses second nature for our customers.
Find out how our Influential Cognos solutions will breathe new life into your existing IT investment and deliver the kind of value you were always promised and we’ll deliver that just as we have been consistently since 1993.
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