Query & Reporting

• Professional report authors can design, build and securely distribute multilingual reports to the enterprise
• Business users can easily create their own reports on the fly
• The mobile workforce can access and interact with reports on mobile devices
• Web-based, drag-and-drop content authoring interface designed for business users
  • Relational or dimensional data
  • Multiple data layouts and visualizations
  • Styles and formatting
  • Format, layout, and distribution
  • Incorporate external data
• Users with little or no training can quickly design, create, and save ad-hoc queries and reports to meet reporting needs
• Drill-down capabilities and exception management.
• Business-defined alerts.
• Robust self-service query, reporting and analysis.
• Simplified administration.
• Centralized security.

Analysis

• Access all the information—at all angles and perspectives—they need to drive informed decisions
• Validate key information and drive business decisions by incorporating statistical evidence in reports
• Perform complex analysis tasks quickly and easily to get to the “why” behind an event or action
• Power of predictive analytics into the hands of business users

Dashboarding

• Access and interact with dashboards regardless of language or location with mobile applications
• Distribute dashboards and integrate them with IBM® Connections for improved collaboration and alignment
• Schedule, burst and distribute professionally authored dashboards to a broad audience of consumers including those who need disconnected access to their dashboards
• Analyse information and share the results to follow a train of thought or generate a unique perspective

Scorecarding

• Align strategy with operations
• Communicate strategy and track your progress
• Ensure accountability for performance
• Share with more user communities
• Enjoy simple deployment and administration

Rich BI in Mobile applications

• Support where users need to work with business intelligence capabilities for the office and desktop, on mobile devices, online and offline
• Using IBM business intelligence mobile apps for Apple, BlackBerry and Android
• Experience insight wherever you are through quick and simple access to business intelligence
• Interact with information like never before in a rich, visual and interactive experience
• Confidently and easily deploy relevant and reusable business intelligence to any device
• IBM Cognos® Active Report provides an interactive analytics experience in a self-contained BI application for browsing and exploring data offline