IBM Cognos

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) - a solution that provides a full range of BI capabilities in a single product using a single architecture, allows you to define a generalized system of views on decision-making for the entire enterprise, reveals the relationship between all previous activities and the current state of the enterprise and allows you to form the best solution that transforms strategy into action.

One of the main purposes of IBM Cognos BI is data integration. The product provides continuous reporting, analysis, scoring, signage, and event management capabilities, simplifying IT configuration and providing access to information for each employee. The result is better user adaptation, better solutions, and better enterprise management dynamics.

IBM Cognos solutions are based on the Business Performance Management (BPM) concept, covering the company's main management processes: forecasting, planning, budgeting, data consolidation, control, business analysis, financial, management and other reporting.

Cognos 10

The new Cognos 10 software combines the power of social media and tools to work collaboratively with analytics applications for business users, providing real-time intelligence in the form of a single, user-friendly interface - online or via mobile devices from platforms such as the iPad, iPhone and Blackberry. The solution combines the power of social collaboration tools with Lotus Connections applications and Cognos business intelligence in one one-stop-shop offering with intuitive management and navigation features and a simplified user interface. This comprehensive proposal makes the user's "flow of thought" inextricable, eliminating the need to switch between applications and forms of data presentation in order to obtain and process the necessary information. The new software supports a natural end-to-end chain of insights, from viewing and learning to decision-making.

This software gives business users an integrated view of statistical information with the ability to update in real time, giving users a comprehensive picture of their business. Now companies can take advantage of access to information in a wide variety of its views, from simple real-time operational information to the results of predictive analysis of possible options ("what if"). Integrated social media capabilities combined with analytics enable company employees to interact with each other in real time across communities, blogs, and wiki resources. This combination of capabilities manages the exchange of ideas and knowledge - which actually transforms into decision-making, but is lost in remarks in meetings, manual processes, and e-mails. Users can now initiate actions, engage colleagues with specialized expertise, send out messages, files and links, present and discuss opinions - all in real time for faster and more accurate decision-making.

So, for example, a local sales representative can identify sales peaks for individual items of popular goods and discuss this in real time with store managers and marketing employees in order to better understand the reasons and optimally agree on supply and demand. A doctor can identify trends in the course of treatment of a particular disease, share that knowledge with their colleagues, and discuss appropriate preventive measures to prevent the disease with them - without the need for any changes to the unified presentation of this carefully collected information. A manager promoting a certain product on the market, seeing an unexpected decline in sales, can quickly discuss this with the production department, store directors, and a team of marketers - simultaneously and in real time. The head of the organization can instantly organize a "discussion network" to communicate with the right people and information in order to make an important message, listen to explanations, get acquainted with opinions and make a decision.

IBM Cognos TM1

IBM Cognos TM1 is an IBM Cognos Business Intelligence solution for multivariate analysis of especially large amounts of data in real time, based on acquired technologies from Applix. IBM Cognos TM1 is based on a 64-bit OLAP server that works with data directly in RAM without pre-processing it, which allows you to achieve a data processing speed that is unattainable for ordinary analysis tools, especially in the case of large amounts of data (tens and hundreds of millions of records). Outstanding high-speed performance when working with large and ultra-large data volumes combined with powerful analysis functionality and ease of use (one of the interfaces for analysis is a client based on) Microsoft Excel make IBM Cognos TM1 an indispensable solution for industries such as the financial sector, telecommunications or retail trading.