Deliver a complete, consistent view of the business
The Cognos platform ensures consistent information and query results for your entire organization with a multilingual common business model.
A common business model to ensure consistency
The common business model helps provide a consistent view of the business to the user, and captures all the data users want to access.
- See cross-functional business views that span heterogeneous data sources
- Insulate users from the technical complexity of the underlying data
- Establish a common foundation for information sharing on an enterprise scale
Enhanced data model development
The Cognos platform provides a number of capabilities to the metadata modeler and modeling teams to speed model development and ensure optimal results:
- Cognos Model Design Accelerator: a graphical tool that guides modelers through a simplified modeling process. Novice modelers can easily build powerful models without extensive training while experienced modelers create models faster.
- Cognos Model Advisor provides guidance on model development, and is accessible directly from the tool.
- Multi-participant modeling allows IT to work in teams for model development. Models can be segmented for different developers and then brought back together to create the enterprise model.
- Self-service Package Wizard allows business users to automatically publish packages to model data such as directly accessing SAP BW, external data, SPSS modeling results and many more. This capability increases business satisfaction and shortens the time to access information.
Tools to engage the user community in understanding data
The Cognos platform has a set of capabilities for providing a view of information that the business understands and that engages the business user in the information itself, including:
- Cognos Business Viewpoint: Define, govern and share dimensions, hierarchies and attributes in BI and performance management environments.
- Data lineage: Offer users the unique ability to trace back to the original source of data with a simple right-click.
