Cognos Business Intelligence for z/OS

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Reporting and analysis on a single platform

IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence for z/OS offers reports and analysis capabilities that can scale to meet the needs of your entire enterprise on a single platform. With Cognos Business Intelligence installed on an IBM z/OS® platform, the same IBM System z® operating platform as your transactional data, your business intelligence applications and data are more available, your server utilization is higher and your programming environments are more adaptable.

Cognos Business Intelligence for z/OS features:

Enterprise reporting for receiving information how and where you need it.
Multidimensional analysis solutions for extracting optimum value from your data.
An open, enterprise-class platform that provides up-to-date information when you need it.

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