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Create custom dashboards and applications on the desktop

IBM® Cognos® Insight is a personal analytics solution that empowers users to independently explore, analyze, visualize and share data without relying on IT for assistance. In minutes, analysts and line-of-business managers can create and share custom applications, dashboards and visualizations to help solve individual and workgroup challenges.

IBM Cognos Insight delivers outstanding data interactivity, analysis and visualization capabilities to individual desktop users.

Import, merge and analyze data on your desktop, including personal files, historical business intelligence, databases and more.
Build custom dashboards and applications without scripting to see data in a way that makes sense to you and your business.
Optimize outcomes through what-if analysis any time – even when you are not connected to a server.
Create compelling visualizations to help you deliver insights in the most meaningful and understandable way for your role or organization.
Support collaboration and action at the team or enterprise level – share applications independently or publish your work to a Cognos server.
Choose business analytics that grows with you – Cognos Insight comes in three editions to meet the needs of individual users, workgroups and midsize organizations, and entire enterprises.

Import, merge and analyze any type of data

Work with personal and corporate data, as well as trusted business intelligence (BI) data and reports without scripting. Connect to local files, databases, existing BI reports and even predictive data.
Add to or revise existing data, and automatically apply changes across large data sets with powerful data spreading functions.

Create custom dashboards and applications without scripting

Break down and examine data to view it in a way that makes the most sense to you or your business using your mouse to navigate.
Use exception highlighting to compare and demonstrate exceptions in your data on the fly.
Go from raw data to analysis and a published dashboard in as little as 60 seconds.

Optimize outcomes through what-if analysis

Analyze and optimize your plans based on different assumptions that take into account ever-changing market conditions.
Model best-case, worst-case and most-likely outcomes based on your key business drivers.
Create custom rules that can be used to automatically perform comparisons or calculations.

Create compelling visualizations

Create and share compelling visualizations that clearly communicate your analytic results.
Control the look and feel of your analysis so you can deliver new insights in the most meaningful and understandable way.
Choose from a rich set of chart types and predefined design themes to add style and visual appeal.
Filter results based on the association between related groups of information, and apply simple search to drill down to a particular member in a set.

Support collaboration and action at the team or enterprise level

Share and use applications built with Cognos Insight across a workgroup or throughout the enterprise.
Publish insights to a Cognos server to provide users with access from a variety of mobile devices, including the Apple iPad, as well as through the web and Microsoft® Excel.
Connect to an IBM Cognos TM1® planning application, conduct detailed what-if scenario modeling with both corporate and personal data, and write-back directly to the centrally managed plan.

Choose business analytics that grows with you

Start with the free Cognos Insight Personal Edition, which has the tools you need to explore, analyze and visualize data from the convenience of your desktop. Download the Personal Edition at www.analyticszone.com.
When you need to share your insights and import data from multiple sources, upgrade to the Cognos Insight Standard Edition.
License Cognos Insight with IBM Cognos Express or IBM Cognos Enterprise when you are ready to grow into broader capabilities, such as managed reporting and forecasting.

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Column chart view

IBM Cognos Insight enables you to build your own dashboards in minutes with drag-and- drop features and easy-to-use capabilities.

Column chart view

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Right-click built-in calculations

Choose from a variety of easy to access menu options with a single click of your mouse. In this case, built in calculations can be applied or customized to fit the needs of a BI or planning and forecast dashboard.

Right-click built-in calculations

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Time rollup selection list

A time roll-up summarizes the data for a range of dates that is relative to a specific date. For example, a year to date calculation is a time roll-up and that can be viewed or searched on.

Time rollup selection list

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Write to cells

Cognos Insight lets you write directly into the cells without any scripting, compare values or make duplicates of your columns or rows for forecasting scenarios, and then display your dashboard in a format that fits your needs.

Write to cells

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Right click what-if scenario forecasting

Creating what-if scenarios is as simple as dragging your mouse up or down on your visualization.

Right click what-if scenario forecasting

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Tree map

Select from various visualizations, including Tree Maps which are useful for showing patterns of high and low values.

Tree map

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Publish files

Use Cognos Insight Personal Edition to create personal dashboards, Cognos Insight Standard Edition for team and departmental needs, and share your files or publish them to the Cognos server for enterprisewide consumption.

Publish files

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Dashboard view

Cognos Insight grows with you and expands to greater possibilities as your Business Analytics needs change

Dashboard view

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Create custom dashboards and applications on the desktop

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IBM Cognos Insight introduces analytics solutions for everyone

IBM Cognos Insight is now available in three editions to meet the data analysis and visualization needs of virtually anyone, including individual users, workgroups and midsize organizations, and entire enterprises.

The latest version of IBM Cognos Insight brings you:

IBM Cognos Insight Personal Edition—a free data analysis and visualization product for personal use.
IBM Cognos Insight Standard Edition—enables you to share your insights and import data from multiple sources.
IBM Cognos Insight licensed with Cognos Express or Cognos Enterprise—the right solution when you are ready to grow into need broader capabilities, such as managed reporting and forecasting.

IBM Cognos Insight Personal Edition

The free personal edition of Cognos Insight enables you to:

Independently explore, analyze and visualize your data.
Import data from spreadsheets and comma separated value files (.CSV).
Get access to the Cognos Insight community for samples, tutorials, videos, webinars and forums.

When you have completed your download of Cognos Insight, visit the Cognos Insight Community for a variety of resources to help you get started, including demos, videos and tutorials.

IBM Cognos Insight Standard Edition

Import data from corporate databases and IBM SPSS software using the ODBC standard interface.
Share and open Cognos Insight files with other Standard Edition users.
IBM Subscription and Support (previously referred to as Software Maintenance) for 12 months
Get access to the Cognos Insight Community for samples, tutorials, videos, webinars and forums.

IBM Cognos Insight licensed with Cognos Express or Cognos Enterprise

When licensed as part of a server role you get all of the capabilities of the Standard Edition plus:

Full interoperability with Cognos servers.
Import data from existing Cognos reports or Framework Manager packages.
Share files using the Cognos Connection portal.
Publish dashboards to the server for managed deployment.
Extend content created with Insight to other Cognos tools and interfaces like mobile and web.
Use Insight as the connected or disconnected interface to contribute to a managed planning process.
Get access to the Cognos Insight Community for samples, tutorials, videos, webinars and forums.

You may already be entitled to use Cognos Insight at no additional cost if you have Cognos deployed within your organization. Entitlements are included with a variety of user roles in Cognos Express and Cognos Enterprise servers.

	Personal Edition	Standard Edition	Licensed with Cognos Express or Cognos Enterprise roles
Commercial use and/or file sharing permitted	No	Yes	Yes
Import data from xls/csv	Yes	Yes	Yes
Import data from databases	No	Yes	Yes
Import from pre-built Cognos BI reports or Framework Manager packages	No	Yes [1]	Yes
Save work locally	Yes	Yes	Yes
Share results with other Cognos Insight users	No	Yes	Yes
Publish data and UI to a Cognos Server	No	No	Yes [2]
Reuse and extend published content with Web, Mobile and other server user interfaces	No	No	Yes
Operating systems supported	Windows	Windows	Windows
Subscription and support	AnalyticsZone.com only	Yes	Yes
Cost	Free	$515 USD	Included with various roles

Note: Prices subject to change. Cognos Enterprise is Cognos Insight, Business Intelligence and TM1. Cognos Express may not bundle the most recent version of Cognos Insight. Publishing to a Cognos Server requires at least one appropriate Cognos Administrator role.

[1] Requires user to also be licensed to access reports and packages from a Cognos Business Intelligence server.

[2] Some tasks require administrative privileges.