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...

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.

Business as usual is not what it used to be. But one thing is certain: complexity is growing and will continue to do so.