Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

Dashboards

Optimize business performace with IBM Cognos 8 Enterprise Dashboards

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence delivers the full range of dashboards to help you monitor, measure and manage corporate performance.

Dashboards provide an at a glance view of business performance for many individuals in an organization. They give companies a factual and timely window into performance, they help them identify anomalies that could turn into significant business issues, and provide an entry point for digging deeper into root causes.

IBM Cognos 8 BI dashboard solutions:

  • Offer personalized views of trusted key information.
  • Deliver a high degree of visualization with graphs, gauges and charts.
  • Can easily be delivered in multiple formats to suit specific needs of business users.
  • Are easy to manage from an IT perspective.

The following principles serve as an effective guide to understanding how IBM Cognos 8 BI Dashboards can help create new opportunities for business optimization:

  • Dashboards mean different things to different people. To some, a dashboard could mean a flashy, interactive technology that promotes high levels of user involvement. To others, it's a static, at-a glance report or a drillable interface that makes it easy to derive additional insight. IBM Cognos 8 BI recognizes that users have different comfort levels with technologies, and their individual roles dictate how and why they need this capability.
  • Turn insight into action. A dashboard should provide decision makers with information that allows them to move from insight to action quickly. IBM Cognos 8 BI enables an approach to exploring issues that can also predict potential outcomes and allow a course change before future issues arise.
  • Dashboards are only effective if users trust the information. Data consistency is crucial to the success of any dashboard solution. No matter how spectacular the interface is, it means little unless it is being fed with trusted data from an enterprise-class platform. Without reliable and consistent data, the value of predictive analysis is limited at best. IBM Cognos 8 BI uses the same services and a common business model so users share a complete and consistent view of data across the organization.
  • Dashboards need to be open to new contexts. Business users are challenged to find the most relevant information in the context they need to make decisions. Dashboard views should be delivered beyond the boundaries of standard BI products to reach into and interoperate with multiple applications and environments. IBM Cognos 8 BI is flexible to new contexts - and, therefore new insights - to the information at hand. New data can be added to drive more insight and address new business questions.
  • Dashboards must be easy to manage. IT resources are a scarce and valuable resource in most organizations. IBM Cognos 8 BI dashboard views can be authored once and accessed anywhere, which maximizes utility to the business.