Data Integration

Business Intelligence Adoption Depends on Data Integration

Business intelligence today is widely viewed as the key to managing performance and achieving success. But the quality of business intelligence is directly dependent upon the quality of data integration — the way information from multiple sources is merged, extracted, transformed and managed in a dimensional environment to provide data that is easy to understand. Poor integration will cripple business intelligence applications, leading to user — frustration and lack of widespread buy-in. Superior data integration, on the other hand, makes information readily available, simple to absorb and immediately useful to users throughout the organization. This kind of functional excellence is why Cognos is the choice of enterprises in virtually every business sector.

Choose Cognos for Data Integration

Cognos is acknowledged by analysts and customers as the leader in business intelligence, so it's no wonder that the company's data integration technology is so advanced. Cognos builds data warehouses on a dimensional framework that ensures information is structured to support the way that users think. Cognos' multi-platform, server-based engine processes significant volumes of information in short update windows with a minimal investment in hardware. Working with existing architectures, Cognos' powerful transformation engine reads data in a single pass, ensuring high throughput. With a flexible dimensional framework, Cognos integration technology can adapt and scale quickly to changing business needs.

Easy-to-use Solution Delivers Effective Integration of Enterprise Data

Cognos provides a single, intuitive interface with live graphical displays and easy drill — through to make data integration tasks quick and easy to execute. Automated wizards lead developers through all necessary steps, and many of the complex processes associated with creating and managing warehouses can be automated. This Cognos solution integrates information from a wide range of sources, including SQL, Oracle, OLAP sources, ERP data, XML, Excel and many others. With a zero-footprint, Web-based deployment model, Cognos solutions reduce burden on IT and the network while improving user adoption. And with centralized deployment and administration, Cognos data integration technology does not require IT to install or manage desktop software, saving the enterprise the costs of deployment and maintenance.

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