IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence for salesforce.com

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Looking for a fast, easy way to conduct reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, and business event management with your Salesforce data? IBM Cognos 8 BI, featuring the IBM Cognos Data Adapter for Salesforce gives your organization the ability to combine this data—along with all your other data housed in your ERP, databases, HR systems, and more—into one true picture of profitability.

The IBM Cognos Data Adapter for Salesforce allows your organization to:

• Incorporate all your critical information into one system.
• Combine Salesforce data with other data sources.
• View current and historical data about customers side-by-side.
• Reconcile data across systems to gain complete view of customers.
• Use snapshots of Salesforce data for time-period analysis.
• Supplement data warehouse data with up-to-the-minute information.
• Enhance Salesforce reporting with a full breadth of BI capabilities not otherwise available.

The IBM Cognos Data Adapter for Salesforce can be used to access all Salesforce CRM solution modules including Sales Force Automation, Marketing Automation, Customer Service & Support, Partner Relationship Management, Analytics, and custom applications built on the Apex platform. The IBM Cognos Data Adapter for Salesforce leverages only Salesforce-approved interfaces and Web interfaces so there is no need to request modifications to your existing Salesforce environment.

The full functionality of IBM Cognos 8 BI combined with Salesforce data offers a true performance management insight to the business, while being easy to deploy, maintain, and update for IT. Business users gain real competitive advantage with the ability to:

• Conduct self-service BI authoring: Enable business users with reports, graphs, analysis, scorecards, and dashboards that combine Salesforce and other current and historical data sources. With IBM Cognos 8 BI they have all the functionality and ease of use to answer their own unique questions without IT intervention or time-consuming customization.
• Derive fresh perspectives: Enable users to create new views of Salesforce data that crosses module boundaries, combines data from disparate tables, and derives calculations to gain new insights that are not possible through standard Salesforce reporting.
• Work with information wherever they are: Deliver business intelligence reports, Salesforce information, and other data to business users in their familiar environments, including their salesforce.com portal, Microsoft Office, search and mobile devices.

Find out more about the IBM Cognos Data Adapter for Salesforce:

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