IBM Cognos Express delivers integrated solution for the most important tasks of Corporate Performance Management – planning, reporting and analysis – in a package made-to-measure for midmarket. Tons of data and extensive and complex business models are no threat to IBM Cognos Express, but the user interfaces and style of work are ready for business users. Everything runs in real-time and in familiar user interfaces – Microsoft Excel and web browser. Integrated solution of IBM Cognos TM1 helps you to build a solid base for higher performance of the whole company.
Benefits of IBM Cognos Express
- Common base for both metadata and data – easily managed and maintained, a single reliable source
- Multidimensional view of data – change the view of data in real-time
- Standard user interfaces – use only MS Excel or your web browser, which are both familiar to everybody
- Customizable and configurable workflow – the whole company is involved in the information flow and follow up the feed-back
- Complex performance management – integration of planning, reporting and analytical tools
- Integration – integrate extremely fast multidimensional Cognos TM1 with leading reporting and analytical tools of Cognos BI
- Business rules – define business rules for treating the data
- Personalization – make your own versions, scenarios, dimension subsets, home pages and more
- Easy installation – everything is managed from a single management console
- Easy and ergonomic operation – drag&drop and graphical representations
- Self-service – truly everybody can create his own analysis or report
- Price favorable – prices are made-to-measure for midmarket so as the product itself
- Modularity – buy and use only what your really need
- Web portal – publish reports and create dashboards from any module at one place and thus present a unified image of your business
- Management console – install and manage modules, users and data sources from a single place using an ergonomic web interface
Features of IBM Cognos Express
- Speed and flexibility – real-time calculations, what-if and ad-hoc analysis, data refresh and write-back
- Security – complex management of user access based on roles and single-sign-on capability
- Scalability – modular solution (use and pay only for what you really need), possibility to upgrade to enterprise solutions if limits are reached
- In-memory – the whole multidimensional database runs in the physical memory so everything is incredibly fast
- Real-time – both data refresh and calculations run real-time
- Read/write – not only data reading is supported, but also writing data back to database is no problem
Limitations of IBM Cognos Express
- One server only – Cognos Express supports only one instance of the multidimensional server (with the possibility to upgrade to Enterprise solution if more servers are needed)
- 100 users maximum – Cognos Express supports up to 100 users (with the possibility to upgrade to Enterprise solution if more users are needed)
- 64-bit Windows OS only – Cognos Express services run on 64-bit Windows Server 2003 only (Enterprise solution may be used if other OS is needed)
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