Reporting and Analysis
Make smarter business decisions faster with tools that take business intelligence (BI) to a new level.
Innovations in BI provide broader analytic capabilities so that everyone has the relevant information they need to drive your business forward. IBM business intelligence products delivered by Locus Solutions are designed to integrate with one another and with many third-party solutions, including leading big data platforms. Start addressing your most pressing BI needs with the confidence that you can grow your solution over time to meet future requirements.
With products for the individual, workgroup, department, midsize business and large enterprise, Cognos software is designed to help everyone in your organization make the decisions that achieve better business outcomes.
Nucleus Analyst Report:
Nucleus Research evaluates all major BI vendors and their ability to deliver.
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Reports – If you have the right reports, you have the foundation to gain insights and make better business decisions. From professional report authors to business users Locus Solutions can meet the reporting needs of your organization.
IBM business intelligence software includes capabilities for authoring, viewing and modifying reports and interactive visualizations—online or off, in Microsoft Office applications or in-process applications, in the office or on the go.
Reporting capabilities help:
- Professional report authors develop reports in a single environment and distribute them to the enterprise.
- Business users create their own reports or modify existing reports without asking IT.
- IT administrators deploy, manage and expand the reporting application.
- Mobile workers interact with reports on mobile devices or while disconnected.
- Business users have access to a growing collection of customizable visualizations they can download into their reports with extensive visualization.
Scorecards – Successfully monitor performance with the scorecard capabilities of IBM business intelligence.
Scorecarding and strategy management software helps you measure, monitor and communicate your progress toward strategic goals and performance milestones. You can add scorecards to business intelligence (BI) to monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and help your business stay on track.
Scorecard capabilities help you:
- Monitor operational & financial KPIs – Deploy scorecards so users can monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and align capital allocations with business objectives.
- Deploy balanced scorecards – Create strategy maps, impact diagrams, and other elements of the Balanced Scorecard to provide a comprehensive view of performance.
- Link strategy and tactics – Apply KPIs to your IBM Cognos Business Intelligence software to link corporate strategy to operational tactics.
- Visually capture organizational strategy – Departments and employees can set priorities and track progress with status indicators and plan-versus-actual data.
- Focus on high-priority objectives – Organize scorecards by status and set alerts and notifications to identify problem areas.
White Paper:
How Scorecarding helps translate strategies & tactics into objectives.
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Dashboards – Monitor, measure and manage corporate performance at a glance with dashboards.
Business intelligence software from IBM includes dashboards that you can view, interact with and personalize in ways that support the unique way you analyze data and make decisions. Historical information alongside current data, data in motion help you quickly move from insight to decision—all in one dashboard.
With dashboard capabilities, you can:
- Assemble, personalize and interact with all kinds of business intelligence (BI) content in your dashboard.
- Analyze information on your dashboard and share the results.
- Collaborate on your dashboards with annotations and comments.
- Access and interact with dashboards regardless of language or location.
- Create interactive, disconnected dashboards and distribute them to a broad audience.
- Take advantage of self-service BI that enables you to explore content without help from IT.
Ziff Davis Analyst Report:
BI Dashboards
Top Five Considerations for BI Dashboards
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Mobile – Experience insight wherever you are, at the office or on the road.
Mobile apps for business intelligence make information available when and where it’s needed. With IBM business intelligence mobile apps for Apple iPhone and iPad and Android tablets and smartphones, you can interact with reports, analysis, dashboards and more on your mobile device of choice. And, the IBM business intelligence platform can help IT support these mobile apps and provide the same type of experience to everyone.
With business intelligence capabilities provided in mobile apps, you can:
- Experience insight wherever you are through quick and simple access to business intelligence.
- Explore information like never before in a rich, visual and interactive experience.
- Enable IT to confidently deploy relevant and reusable business intelligence to mobile devices.
Online Demo:
Cognos Mobile BI
IBM advanced visualization – Understand much more about the underlying numbers in your data when you visualize them.
Too often, you must resort to inflexible spreadsheet apps for showing data in graphs and charts. And, you want to do more than review standard dashboards and scorecards for exploratory analysis. Visualization tools enable you to get past these frustrations. IBM data visualization can help businesses, large and small, get a better understanding of their data.
Data visualization is the automated transformation of data into interactive graphs and charts that can be incorporated in reports and presentations to:
- Communicate complex ideas, relationships and trends in your business data.
- Display associations related to time, hierarchies and themes for exploratory analysis.
- Realize the promise of big data analytics at both the operational and strategic levels.
- Tap into your data in ways that were previously out of reach.
- Support the predictive and BI needs of users, no matter their interests and expertise.
Online Demo:
Interactive Visualization
Aberdeen Analyst Report:
Key technologies of data visualization.
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Cognos Express – Business Intelligence for workgroups, business units and mid-size businesses.
IBM Cognos Express provides enterprise-class reporting, analysis, dashboard, visualization, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that workgroups and midsize companies need at a price they can afford. This scalable, pre-configured solution includes the tools to discover and act on new insights quickly, while helping to minimize demands on your IT staff.
Reports – Author, update and share a wide range of visually rich, professional-looking reports that communicate key aspects of your organization’s performance.
Analysis – Gain a complete, consistent, forward-looking view of information to help you know the past, understand the present and shape the future. Transform spreadsheets through in-memory, multidimensional analysis for real-time, Excel-based business analysis and optimization.
Dashboards – Assemble, personalize and interact with all content in the unique way you use data and make decisions. Move from insight to decision quickly viewing historical information, current data and predictive insights in one self-service dashboard.
