Overview
IBM Cognos® Business Viewpoint makes it possible to access and manage business data definitions, structures and relationships from anywhere in a shared view.
Manage the changes to all data related to analyzing and running your business in a controlled and collaborative environment. With Cognos Business Viewpoint, dimensions, attributes and hierarchies are maintained by your business for your business.
A business-driven user interface helps your business users quickly respond to changes in domains, such as chart of accounts, cost centers and products, as they happen.
A workflow-oriented environment helps you govern the dimensions related to how your business is analyzed and managed.
Security features ensure that users can only make edits to those areas of responsibility for which they have been assigned.
A central dimension store makes it possible for designated users from anywhere in your organization to share agreed-upon business hierarchies and attributes for use in decision-making and planning efforts.
Bi-directional integration with applications such as Cognos TM1®, Cognos Planning and Cognos Controller means you can share dimensional information to help your business achieve higher levels of regulatory compliance, auditability and software standardization.
A service-oriented architecture (SOA) foundation enables Cognos Business Viewpoint to work with your existing infrastructure.
A controlled environment helps you integrate approved business definition modifications into source systems.
A single, sanctioned source of dimensions, hierarchies and data is available for all performance management and business intelligence activities.
Additional products, services and solutions
Products
A complete range of business intelligence capabilities – Reporting, Analysis, Dashboards and Scorecards – in a single environment.
