Cognos Express Advisor

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Analysis and visualization software to improve midsize business outcomes

IBM® Cognos® Express Advisor translates data into sophisticated analysis with rich visual presentations. In minutes, analysts and business managers can create and share customized applications, dashboards and visualizations to help solve individual and workgroup challenges.

Cognos Express Advisor provides the capabilities midsize organizations need to answer business questions at the speed they require.

Create high impact visual presentations—use simple and intuitive tools to communicate analytic results in the most meaningful way for decision making.
Analyze complex data—quickly spot emerging trends and answer essential business questions.
Deliver key insights throughout your company—use intuitive web-based dashboards and interactive reports to gain insight into the business.

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.