IBM® Cognos® Now! allows decision-makers to proactively track and respond to dynamically changing operational metrics and drive process efficiencies, with rapid time to market and low total cost of ownership. IBM Cognos Now! offers self-service dashboards with embedded query, reporting and analysis, tightly integrated with IBM Cognos 8 BI, providing up-to-date, actionable intelligence for rapid, fact-based decision-making – for immediate impact on line operations.
Product features:
64-bit in-memory streaming analytics technology. Enables continuous monitoring and exception notification for time-sensitive operational KPIs.
Streaming dataflow engine. Monitors business events and integrates those events with contextual data from data warehouses or operational data stores in real-time.
Temporal processing. Enables the business user to associate time with events, to identify trends over time and understand events in the larger business context, to distinguish between momentary spikes and real trends. Robust event processing and monitoring capabilities are data-source agnostic.
Operational dashboards. Provides real-time visibility into business operations, KPIs and KRIs, personalized by individual users, allowing rapid response to changing market conditions. Alerts can be used to make time-sensitive decisions, or to initiate actions such as generating workflows.
Embedded IBM® Cognos® 8 Report and Query Studio. Provides a powerful report-authoring environment.
Cognos Now! specifically helps organizations in:
