IBM Cognos 8 Performance Management

Why use IBM Cognos 8 to extend your investments in SAP NetWeaver^®?
The industry's only united platform for performance management

• Lower administration for development and maintenance of content.
• One solution to learn, one source for any/all performance management capabilities.
• Certified integration and interoperability with the SAP NetWeaver® Portal, SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse and the SAP® Business Suite.

Consistent solution roadmap focused on innovation

• Develop applications today without fear of future redevelopment requirements.

IBM Cognos 8 contains patent-pending technology that optimizes interoperability with SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse.

• Maximize leverage of all existing structures and queries.
• Seamless interoperability with the Business Warehouse Accelerator

IBM Cognos 8 is data source-agnostic

• Broad heterogeneous application and data support.
• Flexibility to adapt to evolving investments in infrastructure, technology and architecture.

IBM Congos 8 provides seamless Business user self-service across all performance management capabilities

• "Author once, deploy anywhere" performance management environment that drives an increases in business agility.
• Easy access to information reduces time needed to make decisions.

The ability to embrace existing SAP® investments

• Access all structures within the SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse including InfoCubes, InfoQueries, Master Data, ODS Data; business rules, hierarchies as well as enable access to multiple versions and instances of the Business Warehouse.
• As a SAP®-Certified: Integration with SAP NetWeaver® solution, IBM Cognos 8 seamlessly interoperates with SAP, and non-SAP, data sources to enable rapid updates to content as business and IT environments change. See our listing in the SAP Partner Catalog.
• Extend use of the SAP NetWeaver® Portal using iViews to display IBM Cogos 8 Business Intelligence content.
• As a SAP® Certified: Powered by SAP® NetWeaver solution, IBM Cognos 8 provides the option to deploy on an SAP® Web Application Server.
• Use IBM Cognos 8 to connect to the SAP® Business Suite through a SAP®-Certified: Integration with SAP NetWeaver® connection with IBM Cognos Virtual View Manager.
• Use the IBM Cognos Virtual View Manager within IBM Cognos 8 to connect to ABAP queries, InfoSets and other data residing within SAP® R/3

The option to enhance existing use of SAP® technology and extend existing knowledge, expertise and practices

• Broaden business user access to, and increase the use of, SAP® and non-SAP data sources through speed-of-thought access to customized content.
• Combine operational and historical data residing in the Business Warehouse, SAP® ECC or SAP® R/3 without the need for ABAP development or custom coding.
• Utilize existing security, business rules, hierarchies, aggregations, currency conversion, multiple languages and more within your SAP® environment.
• Broaden use of existing InfoQueries and combine with non-SAP data without data migration or mandatory use of Virtual Providers or custom ABAP programs.

Generate tangible business benefits and performance impacts

IBM Cognos 8 can enable superior, fact-based decisions with greater efficiency using business self-service to access plans, budgets, reports, dashboards, scorecards, analysis and consolidated financial information.

In addition, customers report the ability to consolidate disparate data sources into a single view of business performance and simplify performance management processes while reducing administration overhead and costs associated with updating and managing content.

IBM Cognos software provides a strong lineage that compliments your investment and commitment to SAP® solutions

• SAP® Software Partner Since 1997.
• Dedicated IBM specialists located within the IBM-SAP center of excellence in Walldorf, Germany.
• Proven integration with SAP NetWeaver® data and infrastructure.
• All performance management capabilities delivered on a unified SOA platform.
• Many of the largest SAP® and SAP Netweaver® Business Warehouse customers use Cognos software and Information Management solutions from IBM.

In summary, the IBM Cognos 8 unified performance management platform delivers tangible benefits which include:

• End User Self Service - Business Executives and everyday users can access, create and customize BI and Planning content without ongoing reliance on specialized and scarce SAP IT resources. See a demo with Dashboards or reports on a BlackBerry®
• Flexibility - Leverage all corporate information without dependencies on underlying data, applications and infrastructure
• Agility - No coding: Fast on-the-fly creation, modification and changes to reports, plans, financial models and data sources.
• Proven Capabilities - Predictable results from Cognos performance management focus, customer success and SAP® solution expertise. Download our podcast with ARDEC
• Comprehensive Solution – All performance management capabilities unified within a single SOA platform that enables reliable, consistent content as well as lower administration and training costs.

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