IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

Reporting

Reporting gives you access to a complete list of self-serve report types, is adaptable to any data source, and operates from a single metadata layer for a variety of benefits such as multilingual reporting.

With the reporting capability, you can personalize the style and quality of BI delivered to your key stakeholders; and you expand the community of BI users.

More targeted information

• Use tabbed portlet pages to navigate across multi-style, multi-page reports with critical information.
• Use briefing books to maximize your professional report presentation with customized page orientation, horizontal pagination, multiple tables of content, and personalized 'no data' scenarios.
• Schedule and burst multi-page reports to ensure that stakeholders receive relevant, consistent, and timely information.
• Save and store reports to any LAN location to save time, increase convenience, and facilitate easy access to reports and information.
• Use global filters to update the content across multiple objects in a portal page.

More user communities

• Allow business analysts to quickly and intuitively create and format statement-style reports with live data with the express authoring mode.

Complete reporting coverage

• User interface supports 10+ languages; reports delivered in 25+ languages.
• Multiple export formats: Excel, PDF, XML, HTML, and CSV.
• Flexible distribution methods: centralized access, email, application integration, and Office.
• A single architecture for viewing, querying, analyzing, and authoring for collaborative contributions to any report including dashboards.
• Report against any heterogeneous data source.
• Web-based deployment.

Advanced authoring capabilities

• Click the thumbnail for a closer look at IBM Cognos 8 BI reporting.

  Intuitive and accessible self-service report authoring.
• Federated queries.
• Adaptive layout adjusts automatically when objects are added, moved, or removed.
• Embed live applications, Web sites, and non-BI content within a report.
• Drag-and-drop authoring incorporates data, text, charts, graphs, and images.
• Edit reports with prompts and toolbar commands.
• Interactive visualizations and charting abilities.
• Work with data using familiar business terms.
• Use a variety of charts: crosstabs, bar/3D bar, pie/doughnut, line, gauge, funnel, scatter, dot density, waterfall, and more.
• Create complex, multi-page layouts using different data sources without programming or workarounds.
• Conditional suppression and automatic calculations

Additional Resources:

IBM Cognos 8 BI Reporting

Online Demo

See real-world reporting scenarios for casual business users and professional report authors.

Full Demo: IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

Online Demo

Complete capabilities in one product, on a single architecture. See key features for both business and IT users, including Framework Manager, the Administration Console, and integration with Microsoft Excel.

Reporting with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

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Read how IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence delivers complete reporting to all users with one business intelligence product—to make it simpler, faster, and easier to manage.

Gartner - Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008

Analyst Report

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence for professional users

White Paper

Learn how to respond effectively and produce relevant reports, so that businesses can engage a large number of people across the organization to create, collaborate on, and deploy reports.

BI for Business Users

White Paper

Find out how the flexible access to information inherent in IBM Cognos 8 BI gives users the answers they need regardless of location or environment. Discover how IBM Cognos 8 BI delivers a guided experience and information in context so anyone can find, share, and act on information when they need it most.

IBM Cognos 8 BI MidMarket Reporting Packages

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These complete reporting solutions offer midsize organizations an affordable, single, Web-based solution for all components of the reporting lifecycle.

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