IBM Cognos BI Software To Give Personalised Strategic Info

Cognos, an IBM company, recently unveiled major enhancements to its IBM Cognos 8 Go! software portfolio. These new capabilities extend IBM Cognos 8 BI v4 so business users can create, access and interact with personalised views of performance information to quickly make informed decisions that drive business performance.

The new enhancements unveiled include a dashboard capability called IBM Cognos 8 Go! Dashboard, location-aware capabilities for IBM Cognos 8 Go! Mobile and targeted search capabilities for structured and unstructured data within IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search. These capabilities give IT the opportunity to securely extend their performance management framework to help more business users quickly find the information they need to make better decisions, contribute to information that others depend on and take action to better manage performance.

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Dashboard delivers Flash-based graphics for business users or executives to quickly create personalised dashboards that reflect performance information delivered from IBM Cognos 8 BI or other enterprise sources. External widgets such as RSS feeds or relevant pieces of pre-built reports, scorecards or metrics can also be incorporated directly into the dashboard so business users can obtain a complete view of the information that matters to them.

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New advances in IBM Cognos 8 Go! Mobile let mobile business users and executives more easily view and interact with the same reports they would find on their desktop via their mobile device for efficient decision-making regardless of location. The software also supports all types of business reports, including ad-hoc, prompted reports run by the business user directly from the mobile device; scheduled reports delivered to the device based on a schedule; ‘bursted’ reports, which are valuable in large-scale production-level types of business reporting, such as Web invoicing; cascading prompts, which dynamically link one report prompt to another with related information such as countries, territories and cities.

Newly updated, IBM Cognos 8 Go! search v4 lets any business user extend the decision-making capabilities of IBM Cognos 8 BI by securely accessing and creating BI content using simple key-word search criteria. The software works with popular enterprise search applications such as IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition, Google, Yahoo and Autonomy so users can see structured, trusted BI content and unstructured data such as Word documents and PDFs in the same view within a familiar interface.

“These new enhancements to our Go! Portfolio provide business-driven performance information to help each area of the organisation strategically manage the information that is most pertinent to them,” said Leah MacMillan, vice president, product marketing, Cognos. “Both the business and IT gain more autonomy whether employees are in the office searching, monitoring and analysing business outcomes or on the road looking for new business updates or geographically relevant information.”