Cognos Express Xcelerator

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Spreadsheet-based business analysis and optimization software for midsize companies

IBM® Cognos® Express Xcelerator extends the familiar Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheet with an in-memory analytics engine. It is designed to provide multidimensional business analysis and optimization to midsize companies.

With Cognos Express Xcelerator, you gain better insight to make the most of your business opportunities.

Builds on your investment in Excel while overcoming the risks and limitations of spreadsheet processes. Centrally manages data, business hierarchies, rules and calculations to eliminate data silos.
Delivers what-if modeling for more accurate results when building and testing business scenarios.
Provides new levels of insight to optimize your business, improve accountability and increase profits.

Builds on your investment in Excel

Work within an Excel environment to create custom analysis and build what-if business scenarios.
Contribute data and author reports using an Excel or web-based interface.
Create customized analysis that is targeted to your business needs.

Delivers what-if modeling

Modeling of what-if alternatives (sandboxes) allows individuals and teams to respond to changing business conditions.
Writeback capabilities link modeling results with business optimization and planning.

Provides new levels of insight

In-memory analytics engine delivers multidimensional analysis that can lead to greater operating efficiency.
Dynamic modeling of hierarchies and dimensions provides custom views for different users.
Prebuilt blueprints support key business optimization tasks including expense and capital planning, workforce management and profitability analysis.
Role-based security, structured workflows and clear audit trails improve accountability and accuracy.

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Demos: See IBM Cognos Express in action
See how to quickly and easily build workspaces, create reports, do what-if analysis and more using Cognos Express.