Use the combined capabilities of IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and IBM InfoSphere software to build context for results and establish consistent business terms and data across users, divisions, departments and geographies. Give business users the ability to adapt their information in response to changing business conditions.
With these combined capabilities, your users can:
Interpret information with certainty: Users understand where the data comes from and what the terms mean.
- Lineage in business terms. IBM Cognos 8 BI provides one-click access to sourcing, definitions, calculations, ownership, transformations and metadata for each report element. Show me a demo
- Full data lineage with IBM InfoSphere Metadata Workbench. Get a Web-based, end-to-end view of transformations, dimensions, measures and data usage across and within your information infrastructure.
- One-click access from reports or metadata to a dictionary of business terms through IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary. Eliminate the need for IT to continually explain report contents and streamline report development through a common vocabulary. Show me a demo
- Full data integration lifecycle. IBM Information Server enables metadata-driven design and a common metadata store across data profiling, cleansing, transformation and delivery.
Consume consistent information: Users know that the information they receive is the same across the organization to drive similar decisions and results. The IBM Cognos 8 platform delivers the capabilities you need to ensure consistent information:
- IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint provides a consistent view of business structures. Centralized source of hierarchies and attributes defined in business terms.
- Consistent data and business rules delivered in business-friendly terms. Common multi-lingual business model ensures consistent information across your deployment and eliminates the need to duplicate metadata.
Collaborate to build alignment: Users can capture their insights and share them with the wider organization.
- Attach comments, questions and other observations about the data using report annotations.
- Eliminate errors and build transparent, automated and transparent workflow processes using IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint.
Apply meaning to the information: Users can adapt their views of information to increase its relevance to their needs.
- Collaborate on and manage key business dimensions using IBM Cognos Business Viewpoint.
- Create and share a common business vocabulary using IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary.
- Build custom business views or new models quickly using IBM Cognos TM1.
