Cognos business intelligence (BI) is the cornerstone of e-business success. It lets you use information quickly to make better e-business decisions. And it lets you share information with customers and your supply chain to forge highly effective, lasting e-business relationships. Cognos BI also delivers the infrastructure you need to meet the unique IT challenges of the Internet economy, including:

• Many data sources

• Many users

• Faster development cycles

Enterprise Query and Reporting

Cognos Impromptu and Impromptu Web Reports are the enterprise answer for database query and reporting. Report authors can quickly and easily create complete reporting applications using the powerful authoring capabilities of a Windows client. They then deploy these reports over the Web to any number of users inside or outside of the organization. This gives managers, production workers, supervisors, analysts, suppliers, and customers immediate access to e-business insight.

Impromptu presents information the way users view their business, not the way the data base is structured. This means users can easily create powerful reporting applications without having to understand the underlying database connectivity and functionality.

Impromptu Web Reports allows IT to manage report distribution from a single, central location, which significantly streamlines administration. Users benefit from unparalleled scheduling flexibility, unmatched ease-of-use, and professional presentation-quality reports.

PowerPrompts empower IT to deploy a single Impromptu report that users can customize to meet their individual requirements. Users tailor report content, format, and layout through a guided series of HTML pages.

Impromptu and Impromptu Web reports are integral parts of the Cognos Enterprise Business Intelligence (EBI) solution. This integrated offering gives organizations a unified view of core and e-business processes. By mastering, sharing, and applying key information, organizations can thrive in the e-business environment.

Cognos PowerPlay

Cognos PowerPlay is the award-winning solution for delivering a complete Business Performance Measurement (BPM) reporting and analysis environment for e-Business and traditional applications. PowerPlay gives decision-makers and knowledge workers inside and outside of the organization access to critical data to improve business performance. Explore and analyze data from any angle, in any combination—to quickly identify factors that are not readily found using any other method of analysis.

Cognos PowerPlay enables anyone—beyond traditional Report Authors and Business Analysts—to perform their own multidimensional analysis and create reports on OLAP data in a Web, Windows, or Excel environment. Decision-makers at any level can conduct the analysis they need to make critical decisions. With a single mouse click, report consumers can convert these results from PDF format to a dynamic PowerPlay Web report that allows them to explore and analyze the underlying OLAP data and then share their own findings with others.

Cognos PowerPlay is an integral part of the Cognos business intelligence solution. This integrated solution gives organizations a unified view of traditional and e-Business processes. By mastering, sharing, and applying key information, organizations can thrive in the e-Business environment.

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