Enabling the Business User with IBM Cognos 8 BI

Today’s agenda  Cognos 8v4  Today’s challenges  Go! Portfolio of products Go! Search Go! Dashboard Go! Mobile  Wrap up

IBM Cognos 8 v4: On Business Terms. Empowers Business users without comprising IT’s high standards for conformance, compliance and cost effective scalability. Drives PM process excellence and better business out comes across the organisation.

Cognos Performance Management System

Challenge #1 “…I need to find information for my upcoming meeting and I don’t really know where to find it …”

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search Find it Easy access to BI. Ranked and relevant.  Fast and secure access to ranked and relevant BI content (including metadata) Full content search (structured & unstructured) “Sponsored links” Refine by package or type  Search all BI content and create views of information to answer search criteria Search assisted exploration and authoring  Integrated with enterprise search applications and portals

Challenge #2 “…I need to find information for my upcoming meeting and I don’t really know where to find it …” “…a dashboard would really help me keep on top of my business, but anything IT produces seems to miss the mark …”

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Dashboard Personalize your business intelligence.  What is it? A dynamic and customizable dashboarding capability that enable end user to quickly create and personalize their dashboard from trusted Cognos assets with drag-and-drop ease  How does it work? Leverages existing trusted Cognos assets and renders dashboards with Flash technology  Delivers dynamic, personalized and trusted dashboards Personalize

Challenge #3 “…I need to find information for my upcoming meeting and I don’t really know where to find it …” “…a dashboard would really help me keep on top of my business, but anything IT produces seems to miss the mark …” “…this information is really useful can I get it on my Blackberry? …”

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Mobile Business Intelligence on the belt!  Decision-making. Anytime. Anywhere. Can be scheduled and burst, use prompts  Author once, consume anywhere. Secure, timely and personalised information delivered to the mobile.  Location aware. Relevant information based on the mobile worker’s location. Get it where you want!

Enable your users Personalize Enabling Business Users to make faster fact-based decisions Enabling Business Users to make faster fact-based decisions Get it where you want! Go! Dashboard Go! Mobile Go! Search Find it

Knowledge Base, Proven Practices, SupportLink, Documentation, SupportTalk on-line community. Learn more Training CBT’s Services  IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search – Introduction  IBM Cognos 8 Go! Mobile for Consumers  IBM Cognos 8 Go! Dashboard  IBM Cognos 8 Go! Mobile Readiness Review  IBM Cognos 8 Go! Mobile Installation & Configuration

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