Cognos Collaboration

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Collaborative business intelligence for group and team decision making

IBM® Cognos® Collaboration provides a set of business intelligence capabilities that facilitates decision making for groups and teams. Using integration with IBM Connections, Cognos Collaboration helps your teams improve efficiency and ensure the most effective use of resources when making important decisions.

Cognos Collaboration features include:

A direct link to IBM Connections that opens a preview pane of threaded discussions.
Annotations that add another dimension to your data.
Data lineage and business glossary to help users quickly understand the data they are viewing.
Collaborative dimension management to help ensure the right dimensions are created.
Corporate memory created by a powerful search function that tracks how past issues were resolved and decisions were reached.

A direct link to IBM Connections

Brings together the data, emails, chats, documents, messages and other information users need to build strong relationships and execute on a team decision.
Helps increase the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes by using existing skills discovered through the professional network.
Instills greater confidence in decisions, which can easily be vetted by experts from across the organization and reflect past experience.
Stimulates innovation with greater access to the business intelligence experience and knowledge of more employees, partners and customers.

Annotations

Captures annotations, right down to the cell level.
Provides user-tagged comments to help teams and users more easily follow conversation threads.
Searches all items including comments.

Data lineage and business glossary

Provides access to an enterprise dictionary of terms for complete understanding of business intelligence, such as report author, data sources, SQL, calculations and filters.
Helps reduce time and resources spent trying to understand multiple data descriptions.

Collaborative dimension management

Enables teams to maintain, govern and share the dimensions they need to optimize business performance.
Helps ensure the right dimensions are created in Cognos Business Intelligence to accurately reflect business structures and best represent business needs.

Corporate memory

Tracks and audits decisions and initiatives for future reference.
Enables teams to discover, analyze and easily reference past decisions and how they were resolved.
Provides a means for comparing and analyzing decision outcomes.
Helps teams share key insights and learn from others.