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.
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IBM Cognos 8 Framework Manager
Metadata modeling. See how to build a single model for different reports. Define relationships, apply filters and security, and manage dimensions.
Business Glossary and Data Lineage
See key business definitions and data transformations within your reports.
Value from the IBM Cognos 8 Platform
The IBM Cognos 8 platform provides an open, enterprise-class platform as the foundation required to address performance management needs across the organization.
The Strategic Importance of OLAP and Multidimensional Analysis
Read how OLAP give organizations the deep business insight needed to make more informed decisions.
Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
Learn how the SOA underlying the IBM Cognos 8 platform has helped customers achieve their business goals.
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Cognos 8 Platform Resources
- IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence demo
Complete capabilities in a single product. See key features for IT and business users.
- Value from the Cognos 8 Platform white paper (550KB)
Deliver performance management across the organization with the Cognos 8 Platform.
- The Right Architecture for Business Intelligence white paper (252KB)
Read why the right architecture is a key factor in successful BI deployments and how the single, open IBM Cognos 8 BI architecture can reduce IT workload, improve productivity, and make better use of your IT budget.
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