IBM WebSphere® Dashboard Framework extends the value of business intelligence (BI) solutions by enabling data to combine seamlessly with other transactional, collaborative, or operational content.
The business intelligence builders for IBM Cognos®, Business Objects, and Hyperion enable you to:
- Embed BI data into a WebSphere Portal dashboard at a fraction of the development cost.
- Extract BI data and present it in new, different, or more meaningful contexts through the portal.
- Leverage composite applications that can combine granular Cognos, Business Objects, and Hyperion content together with other applications and feeds at a lower total cost of ownership.
Extending the value of BI through enterprise portals & dashboards
IBM Dashboard Framework with the Cognos builder feature allows you to surface business intelligence information as a service in WebSphere Portal applications.
This capability expands the value of business intelligence data by making it:
- Actionable: Lets end users take action directly from within a dashboard using collaboration and workflow integration.
- Customizable: Provides personalized, secure, role based experience where end users can customize their choice of layouts, graphics and more.
- Contextual: apidly assembles information from BI systems and beyond into new, intuitive contexts. Easily integrates with feeds and applications to improve insight and decision making (search, calendar, REST, operational data).
- Cost Effective: Zero footprint solution enables direct or real-time access to data sources. Eliminates need for Java development, thus reducing the total cost of ownership.
- Extensible: Allows the same dashboard to be built once, and deployed to choice of collaborative platforms including Portal, WAS, Notes, Sametime or Quickr Teamrooms providing rich collaborative and client dashboards.
- Optimized for WebSphere Portal and WAS: Enables WebSphere Portal Applications to readily integrate BI data, Inherits Portal features, tooling and TCO advantages.
Download the business intelligence builders
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The IBM WebSphere Dashboard Framework Builders for Business Intelligence Systems V6.0 are available from the IBM Lotus and WebSphere Portal Business Solutions Catalog.

