IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

BI for Professional Users
Delivering timely analysis to professional users with IBM Cognos 8 BI version 8.4, a customizable business intelligence solution that enables better decision-making.

BI for Business Users
Providing business users with the autonomy to make strategic decisions in a flexible, accessible and integrated environment.

Picturing Performance Dashboards and Scorecards
This white paper outlines the three types of dashboards (operational, tactical, strategic) as described by TDWI's Wayne Eckerson and illustrates how to build them using IBM Cognos Now! and IBM Cognos 8 BI. Explains the role of dashboarding in a performance management deployment. Illustrations.

Visual Communication: Core Design Principles for Displaying Quantitative Information Learn to build reports that communicate more clearly, based on the latest research into perception and understanding. Part 1 of a 3-part series by Stephen Few

Visual Pattern Recognition: Meaningful Patterns in Quantitative Business Information Bar chart or line graph? This paper examines the data patterns and relationships common in most business reports and provides practical guidelines for communicating these relationships effectively using points, lines, and bars. Part 2 of a 3-part series by Stephen Few.

Data Visualization: Past, Present, and future Spanning more than 2,000 years of recorded human history, this paper examines the birth and evolution of data visualization, from early Egyptian tables used to organize astronomical information through to bar charts, treemaps, and geo-spatial visualization tools (such as Google Earth). Part 3 of a 3-part series by Stephen Few

Rapid Scorecarding for financial services
Find out the value of scorecarding and the five key steps to creating an effective one.

Driving Business Performance with Cognos Scorecarding
Listen as Brent Winsor of Cognos, an IBM company, shares how Cognos scorecarding enables organizations to effectively communicate strategy, provide employee focus, and ensure accountability and ownership.

The Full Promise of Business Intelligence
Read about the value of a Web Services architecture, how IBM Cognos 8 BI provides all capabilities to all users, and using all data, and how IBM Cognos 8 BI provides a foundation for performance management.

Seven Steps to Flawless Business Intelligence
Gartner has identified the “Fatal Flaws” that prevent organizations from realizing the promise of BI. Here are seven steps you can take with IBM Cognos 8 BI to avoid making them in your organization.

The Right Architecture for Business Intelligence
Read why the right architecture is a key factor in successful BI deployments and how the single, open IBM Cognos 8 BI architecture can reduce IT workload, improve productivity, and make better use of your IT budget.

A Broad Information Reach: the Gateway to Information Management
Learn how to access all of your data, in any format and location, and turn it into information that you can trust to manage your performance

Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting
Read about the factors to consider in standardizing your BI, the importance of TCO, and why IBM Cognos 8 BI is the only choice for BI standardization.

Reporting for Midsize Companies
Learn the benefits of a single reporting solution for all users, all types of reports, and all data sources.

Reporting with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Read how IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence delivers complete reporting to all users with one business intelligence product—to make it simpler, faster, and easier to manage.

The Strategic Importance of OLAP and Multidimensional Analysis
Read how OLAP and multidimensional analysis provides organizations with the deep business insight needed to make more informed decisions.

Scorecarding with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Read why organizations struggle with alignment and accountability; how scorecarding overcomes these challenges, and how you can use IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence to enable a scorecarding system in your organization.

Business Event Management
Learn how BEM improves decision-making and how using IBM Cognos 8 BI in conjunction with BEM systems can drive higher performance.

Reporting on Powercubes®
Read how IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence reporting integrates with PowerPlay to provide high-definition reporting on the comprehensive business information stored in PowerCubes.

Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting Read about the factors to consider in standardizing your BI, the importance of TCO, and why IBM Cognos 8 BI is the only choice for BI standardization.