Monitor. Manage. Perform. Scorecarding with IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

Scorecards help you define, monitor and manage your company’s critical metrics. By translating tactics and strategies into specific, measurable objectives, scorecards help you link corporate strategy to operations and ensure that your company’s goals are consistently defined, understood and communicated. IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence includes scorecard capabilities that can pull data from diverse sources and let you present your...

Choosing a successful structure for your visualization

One of the most important design decisions for visualization, and certainly one of the most visible, is the layout that you use to frame your data. Should you use a graph, a map, a diagram, a chart or something else? When you answer this question, you have determined the structure of your visualization.

IBM® Cognos® Express is the first and only integrated business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) solution built to meet the needs of midsize organizations. It delivers the essential reporting, analysis, visualization, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that midsize organizations and workgroups require, at a price they can afford. All of the tools you need to get started are included...

Report authoring with IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

With Cognos Business Intelligence, report authors can develop any and all types of reports. It offers complete report authoring from a single environment, provides advanced authoring abilities that match user needs and operates on a proven, web services architecture.  In short, report authors can use Cognos Business Intelligence to create reports that meet the needs of everyone in their organization.