IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint is a dimension management product that gives business users such as business and financial analysts the ability to maintain, govern, and share the dimensions they need to optimize business performance.
Create and Maintain
Enable the business to capture their own current and future viewpoints:
Create, import, edit, manage, compare dimensions, hierarchies, and attributes.
Address all line item dimensions required for business intelligence and performance management (chart of accounts, cost center, product etc).
Employ reusable lists and dynamic hierarchies.
Assemble multiple hierarchies, current and future views, and versions.
Notify interested parties by role as changes occur.
Govern and Collaborate
Replace manual, error-prone efforts with fully transparent, automated, and auditable processes:
Collaborate through multi-user contribution and multi-step, multi-user workflow.
Audit who makes changes and what changes are made.
Apply version control with ability to roll back.
Assign security for dimensions, users, and user roles.
Review lineage of maintenance history back to the source.
Retain all work in central dimension store.
Share and Synchronize
Share approved viewpoints across the decision-making process and systems:
Selectively publish changes, or provide subscription services, to authorized applications.
Leverage pre-built integration across Cognos performance management system (business intelligence, planning, etc.)
Open API and Web services for third parties.
Consider upgrading to Cognos 10
Cognos 10 offers revolutionary business analytics solutions that drive better decisions, achieve better results and provide a deeper understanding of trends, opportunities, weaknesses and threats. Explore any data, in any combination and over any time period with a broad range of capabilities.
