Cognos Mobile

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Rich BI content that users can take action on anytime, anywhere

IBM Cognos Mobile extends interactive Cognos Business Intelligence to a broad range of mobile devices, including the Apple iPhone and iPad, Android phones, and BlackBerry phones and Playbook. With a rich client, users can view and fully interact with Cognos reports, dashboards, metrics, analysis and other information in a security-rich environment. Users receive timely, informative and interactive information to support their decision-making, regardless of location.

Cognos Mobile:

Supports a variety of mobile technologies with a rich, interactive BI interface.
Offers multimodal work options including real-time monitoring, GPS integration and downloadable, offline reports.
Security protocols protect sensitive and proprietary business information.

Supports these mobile devices and operating systems:

Apple iPhone and iPad
Google Android
BlackBerry phones and PlayBook

Offers multimodal work options:

Users get a real-time view of Cognos Business Intelligence data, to ensure they have relevant information at any time
Users can also get real-time alerts and perform analysis on the spot with drill-down and filter capabilities
Mobile workers who need information based on their physical location at a given moment can have prompt values pre-filled based on GPS coordinates¹.
Offline users can continue to work with reports on their handheld devices with downloadable reports² that load page by page

Security protocols:

Standard Cognos data encryption
Standard Cognos authentication, including support for custom Cognos authentication providers
Lease key technology
Device user authentication policies
Device-based mobile encrypted database
Standard device-specific secure data transmission and encryption
Device-based password protection
Remote locking function for the device database
Remote device wiping

[1] Available only on GPS-enabled BlackBerry devices

[2] iPhone devices not supported for disconnected report viewing

Cognos Mobile resources

Demo: IBM Cognos Mobile
See how to get the targeted, interactive and personalized information you need to make informed decisions while you are away from the office.

White paper: The Challenge of Mobile Business Intelligence
Learn why the new business game changers are mobile apps for business intelligence.

Case study: Dorel builds a mobile analytics platform
Discover what happened when Dorel provided senior executives with mobile access to business analytics.