IBM Launches Upgrade of Business Intelligence Software: Cognos 8 Ver4
The Big Blue launched the latest upgrade of BI and Performance Management solution IBM Cognos 8 Ver4. The software offers dynamic and interactive experience to the users. The users can make their decision with greater context and relevance. They can also make their strategy by means of visibility of targets, plans, forecasts and metrics across finance and operations.
The key benefits of using this Information Management tool as follows:
- Integrate heterogeneous data into a clear and accurate view of at every level of your organization
- Provides business-critical information to decision-makers when they need it
- Identify information in core functional area.
- Plan, understand, manage, and improve financial and operational performance
- User can get their answers of questions: How are we doing? Why? What should we be doing?
The solution offers user capabilities such as enterprise planning, dashboards, analytics and reporting in addition to improved enterprise-class platform, flexible business modeling, and consumer-centric interfaces. It helps business users to access and interact with the right information needed for decision making to optimize business performance.
The additional features of the enhancement are as follows:
- Enhanced support of IBM InfoSphere Warehouse through addition of InfoSphere cubing services as a data source
- New metadata integration with Rational Data Architect,
- A new system management methodology provides technical whitepapers, sample reports, models and tools
- data modelers can now view business lineage of where the data was sourced for reports
- Access to the capabilities of Business Glossary, part of the IBM InfoSphere portfolio, which provides business users with access from every report to an enterprise dictionary
- New self-serve flash-based dashboard, mobile and search capabilities in IBM Cognos 8 v4 help business users quickly make decisions.
- The debut of IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint introduces new cross-functional business modeling capabilities to help business users and IT collaborate.
Source: IBM
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