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Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is the only BI product to deliver the complete range of BI capabilities: reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, business event management as well as data integration, on a single, proven architecture. Cognos 8 BI also delivers powerful search functionality for both BI and Enterprise Search. Easy to integrate, deploy and use, Cognos 8 Business Intelligence delivers a simplified BI environment that improves user adoption, enables better decision-making, and serves as an enterprise-scale foundation for performance management.

Reporting is a key capability within Cognos 8 BI, a single product that provides complete BI capabilities on a proven architecture. Reporting gives you access to a complete list of self-serve report types, is adaptable to any data source, and operates from a single metadata layer.

Scorecarding helps you align your teams and tactics with strategy; communicate goals consistently, and monitor performance against targets.

Analysis enables the guided exploration and analysis of information that pertains to all dimensions of your business-regardless of where the data is stored. Analyze and report against online analytical processing (OLAP) and dimensionally aware relational sources.

Business dashboards communicate complex information quickly. They translate information from your various corporate systems and data into visually rich presentations using gauges, maps, charts, and other graphical elements to show multiple results together.

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