IBM Cognos 8 Performance Management

Improve business performance by providing timely and reliable information for users at every level and across every department.

Align tactics with strategy, monitor core business processes and combine historic, transactional and functional data to enable fact-based decisions throughout your organization.

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence helps you overcome common challenges in business decision-making while increasing the usage of your investments in SAP® software that generates greater user confidence in their information. This is accomplished with capabilities that include:

• Proven business intelligence platform built from the ground up using modern SOA standards.
• A unified capability-rich BI platform to deploy across all data sources and support all user groups.
• Flexible authoring environment that lets you build visually appealing dashboards, multi-page business reports, pixel-perfect production reports and more.
• Complete capabilities - reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards and mobile access from a single, unified platform.
• The ability to use any IBM Cognos 8 BI capability with both SAP NetWeaver and other heterogeneous enterprise data for a complete, trusted view of performance.
• A single consistent report specification and semantic layer for multilingual reporting and global collaboration on a single platform across all BI capabilities.
• 'On the fly' creation of ad hoc calculations, changes and updates to reports, dashboards and more.

Heterogeneous support for data, applications and nfrastructures

• Leverage your heterogeneous data, applications and infrastructures, even as versions change.
• Combine data from heterogeneous sources within a single report or dashboard without custom development or data migration.
• Perform calculations across heterogeneous data without coding or reliance on IT. Where appropriate, eliminate need for, as well as administration and overhead associated with VirtualCubes and MultiProviders.
• Solution stability associated with certified interfaces with the SAP® Business Suite, Business Warehouse, Portal and Web Application server.
• Reduce or eliminate use of overlapping, shelved or siloed BI tools.
• Use IBM Cognos 8 Virtual View Manager to enhance business intelligence content with transactional data from SAP Business Suite and SAP R/3.

Self-service access, authoring and customization for every user

• Instant access to information without ongoing reliance on specialized IT resources.
• Single, browser-based interface lets you create simple or highly formatted, multi-page, multi-source reports without coding.
• Users can add their own calculations without additional impact on BW Administrators or ABAP Developers.
• Personalized output options including default PDF format for multi-page formatted reports.
• Leverage Business Warehouse hierarchies automatically when grouping or drilling down within reports.
• Leverage Business Warehouse aggregations, semi-aggregations, and business rules automatically for calculations and subtotals.
• Adaptive authoring means report layouts automatically adjust when objects are added, moved, or deleted.

Embrace your SAP® infrastructure, skills, and existing work

• Eliminate rework and redundant efforts by leveraging existing InfoQueuries and data structures within the Business Warehouse.
• Extend use of SAP NetWeaver security and authorization.
• User self-service for calculations, groupings, filters and formatting and customizing content reduces IT backlog and lets IT focus on strategic priorities.
• Zero-footprint deployment lets you deliver high-impact information to multiple environments (Web, MS Office application, PDA, etc. ) simultaneously.
• Proven performance management framework and expertise accelerates time-to-value.
• Deploy solutions quickly and easily change them in response to changing business conditions.

Enhance the value of your SAP® data and infrastructure

• Reduce the time to update and deliver content from weeks and months to hours and minutes.
• Reduce the need for ongoing custom coding and data migration.
• "Author once, deploy anywhere" environment lets you increase agility and re-use content across multiple applications (Web, mobile, etc.) and business functions.

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