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Introduction to IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
Organizations are pressured constantly to understand and react quickly toinformation. With a capable and efficient business intelligence solution, all levelsof an organization can receive information how, when, and where they need it tomake faster and better aligned decisions.Many organizations often satisfy this complexity and these diverse demands witha number of point solutions. With IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI)solutions, you can satisfy needs throughout the user community and ensure that everyone can work and collaborate from a consistent set of data. In addition, IT is simplified with fewer components to deploy, manage, and maintain. In this chapter, we introduce IBM Business Analytics and IBM Cognos BI and discuss the following topics:

IBM Business Analytics
Introduction to IBM Cognos BI


1.1 IBM Business Analytics

  • IBM Business Analytics includes the following products:
  • IBM Cognos BI
  • IBM Financial Performance and Strategy Management 
    1. IBM Cognos TM1
    2. IBM Cognos Planning
    3. IBM Cognos Controller
    4. IBM Cognos Business ViewPoint
  • IBM Analytics Applications
  • IBM Advanced Analytics (SPSS)
  • IBM Cognos Express


1.2 Introduction to IBM Cognos BI

  1. IBM Cognos BI provides a unified workspace for business intelligence and analytics that the entire organization can use to answer key business questions and outperform the competition. With IBM Cognos BI, users can:
  2. Easily view, assemble and personalize information
  3. Explore all types of information from all angles to assess the current business situation
  4. Analyze facts and anticipate tactical and strategic implications by simply shifting from viewing to more advanced, predictive or what-if analysis
  5. Collaborate to establish decision networks to share insights and drive toward a collective intelligence
  6. Provide transparency and accountability to drive alignment and consensus
  7. Communicate and coordinate tasks to engage the right people at the right time
  8. Access information and take action anywhere, taking advantage of mobile devices and real-time analytics
  9. Integrate and link analytics in everyday work to business workflow and  process
  10. Organizations need to make the most of a workforce that is increasingly driven to multi-task, network and collaborate. 
  11. IBM Cognos BI delivers analytics everyone can use to answer key business questions.


1.2.1 Easily view, assemble, and personalize information
Often, business users do not know how to get to the information that they need, and available tools might not provide the freedom to combine and explore information in the way they want. IBM Cognos BI features allow business users to easily view, assemble, and personalize information to follow a train of thought
and to generate a unique perspective.Using a single place to quickly see a view of their business, users can personalize content, build on the insights of others, and incorporate data from a variety of sources. These capabilities ensure that more people are engaged in providing unique insights and delivering faster business decisions. Giving business users greater self-service control reduces demands on IT and business intelligence systems.
1.2.2 Explore all types of information
If a separate tool is required, it is difficult to incorporate statistical results with core business reporting. IBM Cognos BI allows business users to consume fact-based statistical evidence to support key decisions directly in the IBM Cognos BI environment. The ability to explore all types of information from all angles to assess the current business situation provides a deeper understanding of the patterns that exist in data. These functions allow business users to deliver reports that include statistical insight and validation and to distribute these reports to the larger business community.
1.2.3 Analyze facts and anticipate tactical and strategic implications
Business users need tools that let them accurately evaluate and identify the impact that different scenarios will have on the business and on the bottom line. IBM Cognos BI allows the business user to analyze facts and anticipate strategic implications by simply shifting from viewing data to performing more advanced predictive or what-if analysis. Understanding the scenarios that affect business enables the business user to make informed recommendations to the business and provides an increased competitive advantage.

1.2.4 IBM Cognos BI user interfaces
IBM Cognos BI includes web-based and Windows®-based user interfaces that
provide a business intelligence experience that is focused upon the needs of
different users.
IBM Cognos Business Insight
With IBM Cognos Business Insight, you can create sophisticated interactive dashboards using IBM Cognos content, as well as external data sources such as TM1 Websheets and CubeViews, according to your specific information needs. You can view and open favorite dashboards and reports, manipulate the content in the dashboards, and email your dashboards. You can also use comments and activities for collaborative decision making and use social software such as IBM Lotus® Connections for collaborative decision making.
For more information about using IBM Cognos Business Insight, see the IBM
Cognos Business Insight User Guide.

IBM Cognos Report Studio
IBM Cognos Report Studio is a robust report design and authoring tool. Using IBM Cognos Report Studio, report authors can create, edit, and distribute a wide range of professional reports. They can also define corporate-standard report templates for use in IBM Cognos Query Studio and edit and modify reports created in IBM Cognos Query Studio or IBM Cognos Analysis Studio. This book does not cover use of IBM Cognos Report Studio, given the depth of features that IBM Cognos Report Studio provides. For information about using IBM Cognos Report Studio, refer to IBM Cognos Report Studio User Guide or the online Quick Tour.

IBM Cognos Query Studio
Using IBM Cognos Query Studio, users with little or no training can quickly design, create, and save reports to meet reporting needs that are not covered by the standard, professional reports created in IBM Cognos Report Studio. For information about using IBM Cognos Query Studio, see the IBM Cognos Query Studio User Guide or the online Quick Tour.
IBM Cognos Analysis Studio
With IBM Cognos Analysis Studio, users can explore and analyze data from different dimensions of their business. Users can also compare data to spot trends or anomalies in performance. IBM Cognos Analysis Studio provides access to dimensional, online analytical processing (OLAP), and dimensionally modeled relational data sources. Analyses created in IBM Cognos Analysis Studio can be opened in IBM Cognos Report Studio and used to build professional reports. For information about using IBM Cognos Analysis Studio, see the IBM Cognos Analysis Studio User Guide or the online Quick Tour.
IBM Cognos Event Studio
In IBM Cognos Event Studio, you set up agents to monitor your data and perform tasks when business events or exceptional conditions occur in your data. When an event occurs, people are alerted to take action. Agents can publish details to the portal, deliver alerts by email, run and distribute reports based on events, and monitor the status of events. For example, a support call from a key customer or the cancellation of a large order might trigger an event, sending an email to the appropriate people. For information about using IBM Cognos Event Studio, see the IBM Cognos Event Studio User Guide or the online Quick Tour.
IBM Cognos Metric Studio
In IBM Cognos Metric Studio, you can create and deliver a customized score carding environment for monitoring and analyzing metrics throughout your organization. Users can monitor, analyze, and report on time-critical information by using scorecards based on cross-functional metrics. For information about using IBM Cognos Metric Studio, see the IBM Cognos Metric Studio User Guide for Authors.
IBM Cognos Administration
IBM Cognos Administration is a central management interface that contains the administrative tasks for IBM Cognos BI. It provides easy access to the overall management of the IBM Cognos environment and is accessible through IBM Cognos Connection.For information about using IBM Cognos Administration, see the IBM CognosAdministration and Security Guide.
IBM Cognos Framework Manager
IBM Cognos Framework Manager is the IBM Cognos BI modeling tool forcreating and managing business related metadata for use in IBM Cognos BIanalysis and reporting. Metadata is published for use by reporting tools as apackage, providing a single, integrated business view of any number ofheterogeneous data sources.
OLAP cubes are designed to contain sufficient metadata for business intelligencereporting and analysis. Because cube metadata can change as a cube isdeveloped, IBM Cognos Framework Manager models the minimum amount of information needed to connect to a cube. Cube dimensions, hierarchies, andlevels are loaded at run time.For information about using IBM Cognos Framework Manager, see the IBMCognos Framework Manager User Guide.



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