Use the combined capabilities of IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and IBM InfoSphere software to provide business users with complete and current information for timely decisions. Bring the complete range of your data to bear on answering business questions, regardless of its source or structure.
With these combined capabilities, you can:
Access complete data, wherever it resides: Users make better decisions with all the relevant information at their fingertips. Open data access within the IBM Cognos 8 Platform provides:
- Single query service for predictable and consistent results across all BI capabilities.
- Native interfaces to many data sources; certified interfaces to SAP R/3 and salesforce.com.
- Access modern data sources including XML and collaboration sources.
- Access to relational data sources using industry-standard SQL99 converted to native SQL.
Flexibly combine data sources and sourcing strategies: Combine batch, real-time, federated and change data capture strategies to provide the right information to the right users at the right time.
- Deliver information across heterogeneous data stores in real time using IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture.
- Integrate data across multiple, high-volume data sources and target applications using IBM InfoSphere DataStage.
- Combine data from disparate sources such as DB2, Oracle and SQL Server into a single virtual view using IBM InfoSphere Federation Server.
- Build a comprehensive data warehouse platform for both structured and unstructured content.
- Make all your data available to your metadata modeling environment using IBM Cognos 8 Virtual View Manager.
- Build high-performance OLAP cubes using IBM Cognos 8 Transformer.
- Automate the management of slowly changing dimensions, late arriving facts, surrogate key management, balancing, flattening and recursive hierarchy support using IBM Cognos 8 Data Manager.
