IBM Cognos Express, business intelligence software for midsize businesses
IBM Cognos Express is the first and only integrated Cognos business intelligence (BI) software and planning solution purpose-built to meet the needs of midsize companies. It delivers the essential Cognos reporting tool, analysis, dashboard, planning, budgeting, forecasting capabilities and low cost business intelligence (BI) that midsize companies need at a price they can afford.
Many have lamented that the ‘buy in price’ to begin developing a Business Intelligence footprint at the lower and mid market levels has often precluded those who have most to gain, particularly in a recessionary market when budgets are strained. Recognising and rising to this challenge, IBM Cognos Express has been developed specifically for midsize companies to enable them to make their first investment into, and generate tangible returns from, a Business Intelligence solution without the initial capital outlay.
Cognos Express delivers all the essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities of the Cognos 8 platform. Prepackaged with the TM1 OLAP engine, and a broad selection of reporting tools, Cognos Express is an ‘all-in-one’ scalable solution that delivers the midsize organisation the same insight and tactical agility as the Blue-Chip goliaths, but at a scaled down price.
IBM Cognos Express provides mid market BI solutions with consistent, reliable information to answer three critical business questions: How are we doing? Why? and What should we be doing? With insights drawn from answering these questions, managers can make better, faster decisions to drive greater efficiencies, reduce costs and identify new growth opportunities.
IBM Cognos Express is:
- Easy to install and own, with no hidden costs. IBM Cognos Express contains everything you need “out of the box.” Install and deploy within an hour – not weeks or months.
- Easy to use, with no additional burden on IT. With its simple, easy-to-use interface, everyone from novice users to power users can easily get the reports and analysis they need on their own, without relying on the IT staff.
- Easy to buy and modular, with a clear growth path. With IBM Cognos Express, you can “think big and start small” and enable project rollout to match resource capacity and budget.
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Cognos Express is an overall reporting strategy using the warehouse and new tools, many more people can get access to the data they need to make decisions and manage their resources. You may purchase the full product with its reporting, analysis, dashboard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities, or you may start with the specific module or modules you need today, secure in an easy growth path for the future. This flexible approach gives you the freedom to “think big, but start small” - an effective strategy to match project and business needs with budget and resource constraints.
IBM Cognos Express Reporter: Self-service reporting and ad hoc query.
Handle all of your reporting needs (production, dashboards, operational, transactional, managed) and empower business users to easily access, modify and create reports with comprehensive self-service reporting and ad hoc query capabilities.
IBM Cognos Express Advisor: Freeform analysis and visualization.
Quickly and easily translate raw data into sophisticated analysis with rich visual presentations that include simple and intuitive drill down and drill up capabilities and the flexibility to slice and dice information. Optimize and transform business outcomes with powerful “what-if” scenario modelling and write back.
IBM Cognos Express Xcelerator: Excel-based planning and business analysis.
Transform common spreadsheets with a powerful in-memory analytics engine for real-time multidimensional analysis, planning, budgeting and forecasting.
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