IBM Cognos 8 BI Special Edition

Business intelligence preconfigured for your IBM environment

The IBM Cognos 8 BI Special Edition gives you everything you need to install, configure and start your business intelligence initiative.

The IBM Cognos 8 BI Special Edition includes IBM Cognos 8 BI software as the business intelligence engine, and it comes with embedded versions of:

  • IBM WebSphere as its Application Server.
  • IBM HTTP Server as its Web Server.
  • IBM DB2 UDB (Universal Database, a cross-platform database system) as its content store.

With this offering IT can easily install, test, and deploy reporting, analysis, dashboards, scorecards with confidence, knowing it will integrate quickly and cohesively with their infrastructure.

The IBM Cognos 8 BI Special Edition has been fully tested by IBM Cognos development, and is fully supported to eliminate risk and reduce costs associated with BI deployment.

The software is open standards-based (SQL, JAVA, XML, SOAP, and WSDL) and built to take advantage of your existing enterprise infrastructure investments including relational databases and Web application servers. It operates on a variety of different platforms including Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Linux® on pSeries®, Intel x86 (including IBM’s xSeries), and UNIX (AIX®, HP-UX®, SOLARIS®) and can access multiple, heterogeneous data sources.

Read the IBM Cognos 8 BI Special Edition fact sheet.

Learn more about IBM Cognos 8 BI capabilities:

  • Reporting: Access a complete list of self-serve report types, adaptable to any data source, and able to operate from a single metadata layer.
  • Analysis: Analyze and report against online analytical processing (OLAP) and dimensionally aware relational sources.
  • Scorecards: Align teams and tactics with strategy, communicate goals consistently, and monitor performance against targets.
  • Dashboards: Translate information from corporate systems and data into visually rich presentations using gauges, maps, charts, and other graphical elements to show multiple results together.
  • Platform for Performance Management: A common foundation for data access, system management, and information delivery underpins IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and other Cognos performance management products.
  • Extend BI: Extend your BI capabilities with search, mobile access to data, and more.

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