What's New in IBM Cognos 8 BI version 8.3?

Value from the Cognos 8 Platform The Cognos 8 platform provides an open, enterprise-class platform as the foundation required to address performance management needs across the organization. Underpinning Cognos performance management products, it delivers complete, consistent access to information; broad system management; and is built on a modern, service-oriented architecture.

More Targeted Information with IBM Cognos 8 BI The wider adoption and increased use of business intelligence (BI) software broadens the range of people working with reports, analysis, dashboards, and scorecards. It can also threaten to overwhelm them with information; particularly as new data sources are connected to a BI system. What is most reliable? What can they trust? BI software must be more flexible, and ensure it helps make data serve the users, rather than the other way around.

Open Security with IBM Cognos 8 BI Learn how to use IBM Cognos 8 BI to leverage your existing security infrastructure, provide simple, straightforward application security and encryption, and enhance security with row and column data security, 168-bit encryption, and more.

Adaptive Authoring with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Read how the IBM Cognos 8 BI Adaptive Authoring Environment delivers three key benefits which simplify the BI authoring process to help reduce the IT backlog of requests.

Easier to Deploy and Manage with IBM Cognos 8 BI When organizations discover how business intelligence (BI) drives higher performance, they inevitably expand their use of BI, tapping into additional data sources and delivering more information in more ways to greater numbers of users throughout the enterprise. But as BI solutions grow in size and importance, they can become challenging to maintain and administer, and IT invariably comes under increased pressure to meet service level agreements without exceeding budgets and available resources.

Integration with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Read how IBM Cognos 8 BI integrates with your existing environment and bridges the gaps between user groups, multiple data sources, and multiple security systems. Use the Web services-based architecture of IBM Cognos 8 BI to leverage your existing IT assets and infrastructure to reduce complexity and deliver reliable, available, scalable information.

Supporting more user communities with IBM Cognos 8 BI For business and financial analysts, comparisons and crosstabs are the order of the day. From sales figures to marketing spend, and headcount to customer churn, these users spend their days juggling rows, columns, and data in search of anomalies to address and opportunities to seize. But to be successful, the reporting software they use must demonstrate several key attributes.