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 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

PersonalizePersonalize

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!

Get it where you

want!

Enable your users

PersonalizePersonalize

Enabling Business Users to make faster fact-based decisions

Enabling Business Users to make faster fact-based decisions

Get it where you

want!

Get it where you

want!

Go! Dashboard

Go! MobileGo! Search Find it Find it

http://support.cognos.com 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

Thank You!

Questions?