COGNOS EXPRESS REPORTER

Reporting and ad-hoc queries.

Cognos Express Reporter allows even business users to create, change and open reports using a common data base and thus harmonize your business.

• Complex reporting tool designed for business
• Reports against a single common data source will harmonize your business
• Self-service flexible reports to meet the needs of different users, including financial, production, operational, transactional, managed or ad hoc reports
• No matter if relational or multidimensional OLAP data are used for reports
• Ergonomic Web interface
• Drag&Drop style of work
• Publish reports to web portal, HTML, PDF or Excel files
• Interactive dashboard for quick orientation and decision making across the whole company
• Integration with other modules, a single platform for BI and planning

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COGNOS EXPRESS ADVISOR

Analysis and visualization for business users and analysts.

Cognos Express Advisor empowers business users to transforms data into smart, effective and interactive visualizations using stylish graphical interface and drag&drop. Write-back capability then allows immediate reaction to emerging facts.

• Create multidimensional view of your business based from your relational data with a few clicks while employing the powerful and fast in-memory multidimensional database
• Get maximum information from your data using drill-down and drill-up capability in combinations with lucid graphical outputs
• Conformable self-service ad-hoc analysis according to your needs without waiting for IT department implementation
• Step into the world of what-if analysis and planning with the write-back and data spread features
• Ergonomic Web interface
• Employ the power of dashboards and interactive reports
• Integration with other modules, a single platform for BI and planning

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COGNOS EXPRESS XCELERATOR

Analysis and planning directly in Excel.

Cognos Express Xcelerator advances Excel to a tool of Performance Management. With powerful multidimensional in-memory database behind comes a smashing combination which moves the frontier of detail and speed to the higher level. Xcelerator brings capabilities of multidimensional what-if and ad-hoc analysis, planning and scenario modeling while preserving Excel, favorite tool of finance and controlling, as the front-end.

• Delivers the powerful and fast in-memory multidimensional database
• Create scenarios, versions, variance and what-if analysis against live data directly in Excel
• Build and edit your plans real-time with write-back capability
• Use worksheets - employ your strong knowledge of Excel and extend it with powerful Cognos Express functionality like multidimensional data functions, action buttons and more
• Web interface available for easy data contribution and work with excel worksheets without having Excel installed on your machine
• A single common base for metadata and data, business rules and calculations, which harmonizes the view of your business
• Use workflow to control your business processes in Excel or web browser
• Role-based security setting
• Integration with other modules, a single platform for BI and planning

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