Cognos Express Advisor

Create high impact visual presentations

• Control the appearance of analysis and add visual appeal by choosing from a rich set of chart types and pre-defined design themes.
• Drill up or drill down for quick analysis of key areas such as customers, and geographies.
• Combine multiple views in a single screen or dashboard to create interactive overviews of important business information.
• Analyze key areas such as products or channels, and compare them based on other factors such as regions, customers and time.

Analyze complex data

• An in-memory analytics server quickly connects to local files, databases, trusted business intelligence (BI) reports and predictive data sources and creates a multidimensional view of your business.
• “What-if” analysis models best-case, worst-case and most-likely outcomes based on key business drivers. Exception highlighting enables users to compare and demonstrate variances in data at a glance.
• Ad hoc analysis of any combination of data eliminates the need for IT staff to model and build custom cubes and dimensions.
• Advanced and custom rules provide the flexibility to automatically perform comparisons or calculations.

Deliver key insights throughout your company

• An intuitive web-based interface provides self-service access to analytics.
• Users can go from raw data to analysis and a published dashboard in as little as 60 seconds.
• The ability to not only read data but change values in the 64-bit in-memory cube enables users to revise plans.
• Plans, forecasts and budgets can be modified to align resources in support of business decisions.