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What is Business Intelligence???


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Business IntelligenceAnswers two of three questions that drive better performance

Finance

Product

Development

Operations

Human

Resources

Customer

Service

Marketing

Sales

Why?

How are we doing?

What should we be doing?

IT/Systems


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Business intelligence (BI)

BI technologies provide historical, current,and predictive views of business operations.

Common functions of business intelligence

technologies are reporting, online analyticalprocessing, analytics, business performance

management.

Business intelligence aims to support betterbusiness decision-making. Thus a BI system

can be called a decision support system

(DSS)
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Business analytics:

Querying, reporting, OLAP, and alert toolscan answer questions such as what

happened, how many, how often, where the

problem is, and what actions are needed.

Business analytics can answer questions

like why is this happening, what if these

trends continue, what will happen next (that

is, predict), what is the best that can happen

(that is, optimize).


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Introducing IBM Cognos

Business Intelligence Make more informed, faster, and more aligned decisions

Full range of BI capabilities for all user communities to receive

relevant information how, when and where it is needed

Open enterprise-class platform to provide IT cost-effectively

scale to meet growing user demands

Frameworks and proven practices provide the expertise toensure success on the journey to performance management

Reporting Analysis Dashboards Scorecarding

Why? How are

we doing?

Web Office SearchMobile


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Answering the question How

Are We Doing? Dashboards

Provides at-a-glance, high impactviews of complex information

Helps quick focus on issues thatneed attention and action

Are highly visual and intuitive

Combines information acrossdisparate sources

Scorecarding

Provides instant measurementrelative to targets and benchmarks

Aligns decisions and tactics with

strategic initiatives Supports scorecarding

methodologies

Ensures ownership andaccountability


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Answering the question

Why? Reporting

Provides full breadth of reporttypes

Delivers consistent informationacross all types of report output

Can be personalized and targeted

Provides access via email, portal,MS-Office, search and mobiledevices etc.

Analysis

Performs complex analysis and

scenario modeling easily andquickly

Gets to the why behind trends toreveal symptoms and causes

Moves from summary level todetail levels of informationeffortlessly


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Cognos 8 BI is a complete web based,Dynamibusiness Intelligence Reporting solution from

IBM.


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Analysis:

IBM Cognos 8 BI Analysis enables the

interactive exploration of information regardless

of where the data is stored (online analytical

processing OLAP)

It is particularly useful for managers and

analysts who need to analyze and report

trends in organizational performance.

Robust analysis

Perform complex analysis quickly and easily to

get to the "why" behind an event or action to

improve business performance


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Reporting IBM Cognos 8 BI Reporting enables you to make

smarter business decisions by providing acomprehensive set of reporting capabilities and

access to the information you need.

Reporting with IBM Cognos 8 BI delivers a single,Web-based solution for all components of the

reporting lifecycle

Self-service reporting enables business users to

get the information they need quickly and easilywithout relying on IT.

Author once, access anywhere enables IT to

create a single report that users can access on

multiple devices, in 25+ languages, in multiple


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Overview of Cognos 8.4 BI

Features open data access

Professional reporting

detailed analysis

dimensional reporting and dashboarding deep, large data comparative analysis

extended self-service reporting

integrated portal


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At-a-glance view of

operational and financial

performanceBUSINESS

MANAGER

FINANCIAL &

BUSINESS ANALYST

Fast access to relevantinformation to make better

operational decisions

Free to explore and

analyze data frommultiple sources

Receive scheduled,

personalized content

and subscribe to most

relevant to their role

Reach More UserCommunitiesUsers receive information how, when and where it is needed

EMPLOYEES

EXECUTIVE

CUSTOMER &

PARTNERS

Secure access to

information over the

web with no training


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BI web based components


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March-2006 COGNOS 8BI TOOLS

Cognos Connection

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Query

Studio

Report

Studio

Framework Manager

Data

Sources

Report

Viewer

Analysis

Studio

Event

Studio

Architecture of


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Cognos Connection

June-2006 COGNOS 8 Cognos Connection

Cognos Connection(Web portal)

Query Studio

Report Studio

Report Viewer

Analysis Studio

Event Studio

Ad hoc Reporting

Report Authoring

Viewer

Analysis

Event Cycle Mgmt.


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Query Studio- Self

ServiceReporting Cognos 8 BI provides extended formatting, filtering, and calculations

for ad hoc reports.

HighlightExceptional Data


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Report Studio contains several report typesto structure your reports.

Different report types can be combined on

the same page.

Report Studio:


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Insertable

Objects

Pane

Propertie

s Pane

Work

Area

Explorer Bar Toolbar

Report Studio Environment

Use the toolbars, panes, and work area tocreate and enhance reports.


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Charts

Charts are a graphical way of representing data.

Column charts

Bar chartsLine

Pie

Area

Point

Radial

Gauge

Maps


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Charts-Report Studio


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Prompts

Prompts are user interface controls to requestuser input at runtime

Text Box Prompt

Value Prompt

Select & Search prompt

Date prompt

Time prompt Date/Time prompt


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Prompts:


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Dashboard:

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligencedelivers the full range of dashboards to

help you monitor, measure and manage

corporate performance.

Dashboards provide an at a glance view of

business performance for many individuals

in an organization and provide an entry

point for digging deeper into root causes.

Deliver a high degree of visualization with

graphs, gauges and charts.


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DashBoard


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Design Informative Executive

Dashboards You can design informative dashboards using the extensive

capabilities of Report Studio.

A l i St di D L D t


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Analysis Studio-Deep, Large Data

Comparative Analysis

Data in cubes can contain vast amounts of recordsmaking an analysis very large.


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