Cognos Business Intelligence for z/OS

Enterprise reporting

• Addresses your organizational reporting needs with Cognos Business Intelligence capabilities—from simple inventory lists to high volume billings to ad hoc business reports
• Eases departmental and complex global reporting by providing divisions, departments and international groups with the same information using the z/OS platform
• Creates multipage, multi-query reports in Microsoft Excel, PDF, XML, HTML or CSV and scheduling or bursting delivery by email.
• Supports multiple languages from a single metadata layer
• Enables report authors to define which report elements they want to adapt to each user’s working language, including the user interface and report content

Multidimensional analysis solutions

• Enables you to see data in different contexts on the fly, without having to tie up IT resources because it is on a single z/OS platform
• Uses Cognos Business Intelligence analysis capabilities to transform volumes of data into information about your business so it can be analyzed in a business context
• Provides the means to gain insight into business performance, trends and changes for a competitive advantage

An open, enterprise-class platform

• Provides consistent information your business can understand and trust
• Offers broad and open access to mixed data sources and an easy modeling environment
• Includes capabilities for streamlining system management processes so IT organizations can focus less on system administration and more on responding to new business demands