Why business intelligence from IBM?

Make better business decisions faster with IBM solutions that take business intelligence to a whole new level. IBM innovations in business intelligence are designed to enable more people with broader analytics capabilities so that everyone has the relevant information needed to drive your business forward.

With business intelligence software from IBM, you can:

• Equip users with what they need to explore information freely, analyse key facts, collaborate to gain alignment with key stakeholders and make decisions with confidence for better business outcomes.
• Provide quick access to facts with reports, analysis, dashboards, scorecards, planning and budgets, real-time information, statistics and the flexibility to manage information for more informed decisions.
• Integrate the results of “what-if” analysis modeling and predictive analytics into your unified workspace to view possible future outcomes alongside current and historical data.
• Support where users need to work with business intelligence capabilities for the office and desktop, on mobile devices, online and offline.
• Meet different analytics needs throughout your business with solutions that are integrated and right-sized for individuals, workgroups or midsize businesses and large organisations or enterprises.
• Implement a highly scalable and extensible solution that can adapt to the changing needs of IT and the business with flexible deployment options that include the cloud, mainframes and data warehousing appliances.
• Start addressing your most pressing needs with the confidence that you can grow your solution over time to meet future requirements with the integrated Cognos 10 family of products.

Business Intelligence capabilities

Query, reporting, analysis, dashboards, planning, scenario modeling, real-time monitoring, and predictive software.

The Cognos 10 family (US) delivers analytics into the hands of everyone to drive better business outcomes. Each family member offers reporting, analysis, modeling, planning and collaboration to address the needs of business intelligence, performance management and business analytics initiatives. Right-sized to meet the needs of your organisation, the Cognos 10 family offers products for:

• Individuals, who need freedom and flexibility yet want to access corporate information and share insights with wider communities
• Workgroups or midsize businesses, who need to be up and running fast with a solution that is easy to install and manage
• Organisations, who need to meet strategic objectives spanning multiple functions, levels and business units

Cognos 10 family

Cognos Insight for personal, individual users

Cognos Express for workgroups, business units and midsize businesses

Cognos Enterprise (US) for organisations with hundreds or thousands of users

Cognos 10 family information to help you choose which products are best for you (US)

All products - Business intelligence

• Business Intelligence Pattern
• Cognos Analytic Applications
  • Cognos Customer Performance Sales Analytics
  • Cognos Financial Performance General Ledger Analytics
  • Cognos Financial Performance Payables Analytics
  • Cognos Financial Performance Receivables Analytics
  • Cognos Supply Chain Performance Procurement Analytics
  • Cognos Workforce Performance
  • Cognos Workforce Performance Talent Analytics
• Cognos Enterprise
  • Cognos Analysis for Microsoft Excel
  • Cognos Business Intelligence
  • Cognos Collaboration
  • Cognos Real-time Monitoring
• Cognos Enterprise Data Management
  • Cognos Business Viewpoint
  • Cognos for Microsoft Office
• Cognos Enterprise Development and Deployment
  • Cognos Business Intelligence for Linux on System z
  • Cognos Business Intelligence for z/OS
  • Cognos Mashup Service
• Cognos Express - Overview
  • Advisor | Trials and Demos (US)
  • Planner | Trials and Demos (US)
  • Reporter | Trials and Demos (US)
  • Xcelerator | Trials and Demos (US)
• Cognos Insight