Overview
IBM Cognos Express Xcelerator transforms common spreadsheets for real-time planning and business analysis.

IBM Cognos Express Xcelerator extends and transforms the familiar Excel front-end with a powerful in-memory analytics engine. It’s perfectly suited for multidimensional analysis and strategic planning tasks, enabling a new level of insight and action, as well as speed.
- Build and test business scenarios with powerful “what if” modeling.
- Update plans immediately using write-back capabilities.
- Take advantage of existing Excel skills and investments while overcoming the risks and limitations of spreadsheet-only processes.
- Use with other IBM Cognos Express modules for a single, integrated BI and planning solution purpose-built for midsize companies.
Product framework
Product line overview
Self-service reporting and ad hoc query
Freeform analysis and visualization
Excel-based planning and business analysis
