IBM-Cognos

A Quick Study
Presenter
Brindha Sivasamy

Outline
What is Cognos ?
History of Cognos
Cognos Product Line An Introduction

What is IBM-Cognos ?
Cognos is an integrated Business Intelligence (BI) and
Financial Performance Management (FPM) software

Business Intelligence (BI)

Business intelligence (BI) is a broad category of
applications and technologies for gathering, storing,
analyzing, and providing access to data to help
enterprise users make better business decisions.

Financial Performance Management (FPM)

The practice of managing the effectiveness and efficiency
of Finance by aligning people, processes and systems to
a common set of goals and objectives.

History of Cognos
1969 - Ottawa based Company

2007 IBM announced its

acquisition

2009 Cognos BI & FPM

Cognos Product Line An Introduction

Delivers the full range of BI capabilities - query and reporting, analysis,
dashboards,
scorecards
and
to support
how
people
think
work
Enterprise
planning
software
thatCognos
provides
a complete,
dynamic
environment
Enables
users
to assemble
andmore
explore
all types
of data
in any
time
horizon
Cognos Business Intelligence
Banking
Risk
Performance
- and
Credit
Risk
for developing timely, reliable and personalized forecasts and budgets.
personalized
interface.
Cognos
Business
Insight
Cognos
Financial
Performance -General Ledger Analytics
Cognos
Business
Intelligence through a dynamic, highly

Cognos BI

Cognos TM1

Cognos TM1

Delivers
advanced analysis and reporting through Web-based access
toFinancial Performance - Payables Analytics
Cognos
TM1Business
Cognos
Cognos
Insight
Makes it possible to access
and manage
business data definitions,
OLAP data sources

structures and relationships from anywhere in aCognos

shared viewTM1

Cognos
TM1Business
Executive Viewer
Cognos
Viewpoint

Executive Viewer

Cognos Financial Performance - Receivables Analytics

Is a real-time monitoring solution for time-sensitive

KPIs and
operational
Cognos
Planning

Enterprise planning software that helps you develop budgets and forecasts
Cognos
Express
Cognos Consumer Insight
metrics
Cognos
Now!Reporter
faster and more efficiently

Cognos Express Planner

Cognos Planning

Cognos Analytics
Application

Packaged
Packaged
analytic
sales
software
application
thatthat
delivers
provides
insight
fast,into
interactive
existinginsight
and emerging
intoCognos Business Viewpoint
Cognos
Express
Advisor
human
revenue
resource
opportunities.
and workforce issues
Reporting software that delivers
complete,
Cognos Express Xcelerator
Cognos
Now! self-service reporting and ad hoc
query capabilities for midsize companies
Cognos Customer Performance Sales Analytics
Packaged
supply chain management (SCM) solution for managing supplier
Cognos Mobile
Cognosand
8 Business
Intelligence
Provides planning, budgeting
forecasting
software purpose-built for
performance
and
procurement
spend
Cognos
Packaged
talent
management
solution that gives insight into recruitment, Cognos Workforce Performance
Express
Reporter
midsize companies.
development,
succession
and retention.
Cognos for Microsoft
Office
Cognostranslates
8 Controller
Analysis software that quickly
raw data into sophisticated analysis
Cognos
Planner
Packaged
creditExpress
risk analysis
software that delivers rapid insight into credit Cognos Workforce Performance Talent Analytics
with
rich
visual
presentations
Cognos
Mashup
Service
Cognos
8 Go! Dashboard
risk
and loan
profitability
Cognos
Supply Chain Performance Procurement Analytics
Cognos
Express
Packaged
analytic
reportingAdvisor
that enables finance
Transforms
to measurecommon
strategicspreadsheets
plans
for real-time, Excel-based business
Cognos
Cognos
Microsoft Excel
Cognos
8 Go! Mobile
Banking Risk Performance - Credit Risk
and
overallAnalysis
financial for
performance.
analysis and optimization
Cognos
Express
Packaged
reportingXcelerator
that helps finance gain better control over
cash Cognos
Financial Performance -General Ledger Analytics
Cognos analytic
Statistics
Cognos
8 Go! Office
outflow and vendor relationships.
Cognos Financial Performance - Payables Analytics
Business Analytics on System z
Cognos 8 Go! Search
Packaged analytic reporting that helps finance minimize delinquent accounts
Cognos Financial Performance - Receivables Analytics
and
bad debts
and improve
cash flow.
Cognos
Customer
Performance
Sales Analytics
Cognos ReportNet

Cognos Express

Cognos Integration

Cognos Workforce Performance

Cognos Series 7

Cognos 8 Go!

Interactive Cognos Business Intelligence to mobile devices such as

Personalize your business intelligence environment with a simple-to-use
BlackBerry,
others PowerHouse
Cognos
Cognos
Mobile
Workforce
Performance
Talent
AnalyticsiPhone, iPad and
Cognos
Flash interface
Mobile lets you access and use customer,
Deliver
product
Cognos
and other
Business
business
Intelligence to users who prefer
to work
with
Cognos
8 Go!
Supply
Chain
Performance
Cognos
information
when
working
remotely
applications such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, or Word
Cognos
for
Microsoft
Office Procurement

Dashboard

Cognos 8 Go! Mobile

Analytics

Interact
with BI content using Microsoft Office.
Exposes content from Cognos Business Intelligence (such as reports,
Cognos
Mashup Service
queries, analyses and metrics) as a Web Service
Cognos 8 Go! Office
Extend
BI's
value
by
helping
users
find
reports,
scorecards, and other
Cognos Analysis for Microsoft Excel
Makes it possible to analyze business data in a working environment you
content.
Cognos 8 Go! Search
already know

Cognos Product Line Contd

More Business Analytics Products

Cognos 8 Controller
Controller is financial consolidation software that supports the complete close, consolidate, report processall in one solution

Business Analytics on System z

Analytics solutions for System z provide an end-to-end solution on a single platform for providing key business insights and optimizing your organizations performance.

Thank You !!!