Enterprise Business Intelligence - Cognos®
Paradigm markets and supports Cognos’s
forecasting and analytical tools. Cognos offers
an integrated set of Analytic Applications that
come with pre-built reports, performance
indicators, and connections with underlying data
sources from ERP vendors. They package reporting
and analysis, scorecarding, and planning
capabilities for the areas of customer, supply
chain, and financial/ operational analysis.
With Cognos business intelligence you can
select the best capability in each area, expand
as your needs evolve and fully integrate
business with other components of your
enterprise performance management environment.
Cognos offers the following applications to
support your business intelligence needs:
Reportnet- Enterprise reporting and
query software which allows you to deliver any
report-batch, production, managed and ad hoc
query from one product and one architecture.
PowerPlay- An online analysis tool
offering the ability to analyze your business
forms multiple dimensions within seconds.
Visualizer- A data visualization
product utilized for dashboarding and Six Sigma
initiatives.
NoticeCast- Complements Cognos
business intelligence with the ability to
monitor events management and automatically
notify key people of event as they occur.
DecisionStream – Fully automated,
dimensionally aware ETL software. It delivers a
foundation for and provides the metadata to
start building the reporting structures.
The Cognos framework leverages best
practices, accelerates return, and reduces the
risk of implementing this kind of solution.
These could be customizations or extensions to
any piece of any application—additional data
external to your ERP, alternate sources of data,
the open data warehouse model, new areas for
analysis, unique metrics for a particular
vertical, new/changed reports and analyses, or
new BI pieces for new lenses into the content.
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