Cognos 8 Platform

The Cognos 8 platform gives you the flexibility to meet both business requirements for consistent, accurate information and IT standards for portals, security, hardware and operating systems.

Cognos platform lets you:

• Leverage technology standards as they evolve
• Flexibly deploy to fit your infrastructure strategy
• Extend your performance management solution to address new business needs

Leverage technology standards as they evolve

• Leverage your investment in platforms, security, portal and Web environments.

Flexibly deploy to fit your infrastructure strategy

• Location transparency: Deploy any service on any server and make it accessible from anywhere.
• Flexible peer-to-peer services: Enables flexible distribution to fit within your chosen infrastructure strategy to scale up or out as needed.

Extend your performance management solution to address new business needs

• Single, open API: IT has full access within any IDE to functionality to add new capabilities or address unique requirements.
• Purpose-built services: Cognos, partners and customers are able to quickly add new functionality across the capabilities to keep pace with future business demands.
• Embeddable services: Embed Cognos performance management capabilities into other applications such as your web applications, business process management (BPM) or enterprise search.

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.

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