Reporting
Reporting is a key capability within IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence, a single product that provides complete BI capabilities on a proven architecture. Reporting gives you 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.
Complete reporting coverage including business dashboards.
View IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 8: Reporting Factsheet
Complete reporting coverage including business dashboards.
- One solution for all enterprise reporting and dashboard requirements.
- Burst personalised reports to multiple locations and in multiple formats.
- User interface supports 10+ languages; reports delivered in 25+ languages.
- Multiple export formats: Excel, PDF, XML, HTML, and CSV.
- Flexible distribution methods: centralised access, email, application integration, MS Office.
- Multilingual capabilities automatically deliver reports in users' working language.
- A single architecture for viewing, querying, analysing, and authoring for collaborative contributions to any report including dashboards.
- One authoring environment for creating all report types, including dashboards.
- Intuitive and accessible self-service report authoring.
- Federated queries - one query drawing on multivendor data sources - even within a single reporting object.
- Embed live applications, Websites, and non-BI content within a report.
- Drag-and-drop authoring incorporates data, text, charts, graphs, and images.
- Edit reports with prompts and toolbar commands.
- Interactive visualizations and charting abilities.
- Work with data using familiar business terms.
- Use a variety of charts: crosstabs, bar/3D bar, pie/doughnut, line, gauge, funnel, scatter, dot density, waterfall, and more.
- Create complex, multi-page layouts using different data sources without programming or workarounds.
- Conditional suppression and automatic calculations.
- Relational sources including Oracle, SQL, IBM, Teradata, Sybase, and ODBC.
- Dimensional sources such as IBM Cognos OLAP, SAP BW, Microsoft SSAS, Essbase, Oracle 10G, and IBM DB2 CubeViews.
- ERP systems like SAP, PeopleSoft, and Siebel.
- Modern sources including XML, Java beans, JDBC, LDAP, WSDL.
- Satellite sources such as Excel files, Access files, and flat files. Legacy and Mainframe systems such as VSAM, IMS, IDMS, and Cobol Copybooks.
- Content management data, including FileNet, Documentum, and OpenSoft.
- High-performance federated data access across all sources
- Support for Windows, UNIX, and Linux operating systems, including mixed platform deployments.
- SAP-certified BAPI® and iViews, Certified Powered by SAP NetWeaver®.
- Single portal, metadata layer, and point of administration.
- Proven scalability to 190,000 named users. Reporting times of 2.5 seconds.
- Out-of-the-box integration with IBM WebSphere, SAP, and Plumtree enterprise portals.
- Fully published Web services SDK.
- Single Metadata layer for all reporting.
View IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 8: Reporting Factsheet