IBM Cognos Now!

Overview

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IBM Cognos Now! delivers an operational BI solution that continuously monitors time-sensitive key performance indicators (KPIs) and line-of-business operational metrics. Designed for rapid deployment and low total cost of ownership (TCO), the solution is delivered through a variety of platforms including a prepackaged hardware, software or virtual appliance.

Operational business intelligence lets decision-makers proactively track and respond to continuously updated operational metrics, with minimal IT intervention. IBM Cognos Now! offers self-service dashboards with embedded query, reporting and analysis, tightly integrated with IBM Cognos 8 BI, providing up-to-date, actionable intelligence for rapid, fact-based decision-making.

The industry's first Operational BI appliance

IBM Cognos Now! delivers highly visual, interactive, and self-service dashboards, data integration, analysis, and reports, all prepackaged in a hardware appliance.

• Continuous monitoring for business operations, operational KPIs and metrics:
  Empowers line-of-business users to proactively and rapidly respond to ever-changing business conditions with 64 bit in-memory streaming technology that ensures operational metrics are always up-to-date.


• Autonomy for line-of-business user:
  Minimize reliance on IT with self-service, interactive dashboards that line-of-business users can customize for their day-to-day jobs and specific operational KPIs and metrics.


• Cost-effective, low risk, and rapid deployment:
  Provide unlimited access to dashboards and data sources to all line-of-business users at a lower TCO, with no role-based pricing. Minimize IT effort and resources with a pre-configured hardware appliance from a single vendor that is easy to deploy, manage and maintain.


• Closed-loop business performance optimization:
  Identify and customize operational KPIs and metrics. Allow visibility into operations performance at transactional or KPI level, understand and perform root-cause analysis, and drive insight to corrective action.

Dynamic Architecture

The core product features of IBM Cognos Now! include:

• Streaming dataflow engine: Monitors business events and integrates those events with contextual data from data warehouses or operational data stores in real-time. Provides a complete, higher value view of critical operational metrics.


• Temporal processing: Enables the business user to associate time with events, to identify trends over time and understand events in the larger business context, and distinguish between momentary spikes and real trends.


• Operational dashboards: Provide real-time visibility into business operations, KPIs, and KRIs, personalized by individual users, allowing rapid response to changing market conditions. Alerts can be used to make time-sensitive decisions, or to initiate actions such as generating workflows.


• Rich analytics: Provides detailed metrics and contextual data that help the business user process and act on the alerts.


• Seamless integration: Integrates easily with the IBM Cognos 8 BI platform and with operational applications and legacy systems that already exist in your environment via standard interfaces.


• A single, integrated continuous monitoring solution for operational BI: Deploy an operational BI solution in days. IBM Cognos Now! plugs into your existing network and includes data integration, analysis, end-user dashboards, and collaboration tools.

There are three types of appliances available: hardware, software, and VM. Each appliance type is delivered in three appliance sizes – 3500, 5500 and 7500 versions. Each appliance type includes:

• Operational dashboards: Continuous visibility into all of your critical business information and an easy-to-use interface for customizing metrics, setting alerts, and drilling down to detailed data.


• Application workbench: Allows system administrators to quickly and easily set up data integration, analytic models, and end-user dashboards to present current information, historical data, or aggregated views.


• Streaming and analytical server: Houses a patent-pending streaming data store for continuous data integration, as well as engines for multidimensional analysis, dynamic modeling, business rules execution and exception and alert reporting.

Additional Resources:

IBM Cognos Now! SLA Monitoring for the Customer Service Organization

Online Demo

See how continuous monitoring of operational metrics ensures real-time visibility into SLA requirements.

IBM Cognos Now! Demo

Online Demo

See how users build and edit their own dashboards quickly and easily.

IBM Cognos Now!

Fact Sheet

IBM Cognos Now! is an operational business intelligence solution that is prepackaged on a hardware, software, or VM appliance, for fast and easy deployment. Read how IBM Cognos Now! delivers self-service, interactive dashboards; robust ad hoc query, reporting, and analysis; and built-in task and exception management to support your organization's continuous monitoring agenda.

VentanaSpotlight: Operational BI Trends

Analyst Report

Read the results of Ventana Research benchmarks showing that operational BI is seen increasingly as a key enabler of performance management.

'Operational BI: Getting Real-time About Performance' by Aberdeen Research

Research Report

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Operational Business Intelligence: Providing decision-makers with up-to-date visibility into operations

White Paper

Learn: Use cases for operational BI; The difference between enterprise BI and operational BI; Criteria for a successful operational BI deployment.

Manufacturing Quality Assurance with IBM Cognos Now! White Paper

White Paper

Find out how operational performance management with Cognos can improve efficiency, quality, and profitability in your organization.

Lowering the Total Cost of Ownership for Business Intelligence in Midsize Companies

Analyst Report

A Ventana Research white paper

Driving Game-Changing Financial Performance:A Case Study with MDS Pharma

Web Seminar Live

Learn how one organization introduced performance tools and concepts that allowed it to measure financial and sales KPIs, proactively monitor business operations, and manage its business with near-real-time visibility using dashboard metrics and reports. When: Tuesday, July 15 12:00 P.M. ET

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