IBM Cognos Express Reporter meets all of your reporting needs with complete self-service reporting and ad hoc query capabilities. It empowers business users to access, modify or author reports quickly and easily.
IBM Cognos Express Reporter delivers:

• Simple, intuitive, drag-and-drop authoring capabilities that are easily accessible from a Web browser for self-service reporting by any user, from novice to expert.
• A common metadata model that presents information to users in business terms they understand, so they can be productive right away.
• Access to all corporate data in any combination, including relational, analytical OLAP or even desktop files for comprehensive, accurate reporting.
• Broad report coverage to meet the needs of different users, including financial, production, operational, transactional, managed or ad hoc reports.
• Flexible report delivery that includes the ability to write once and immediately publish reports to the Web, PDF files, Excel spreadsheets, email messages and the IBM Cognos Express Web portal.
• Interactive dashboards that can be shared company-wide and support collaborative feedback.
• The ability to easily maintain and update a report throughout its life cycle using a common, shared interface that can be accessed by all business users.

 IBM Cognos Express Advisor gives business users and analysts at midsize companies the ability to quickly analyze complex data and easily share business insights with high-impact visualization.
IBM Cognos Express Advisor delivers:

•  Easy drill down and up of information for quick analysis, including interactive dashboards and reports.
• High-impact visualizations, including bar, line, area, pie, radar, bubble, scatter and range charts and graphs, plus geo maps, dial indicators and heat/performance maps.
• Self-service analytics through an intuitive Web-based interface that enables simple publishing to a common portal for widespread adoption by business users.
• Powerful in-memory analytics for real-time calculations and slicing and dicing of data by swapping, stacking and switching multiple dimensions in any combination.
• Freeform analysis of any combination of data, which eliminates reliance on overstretched IT resources to model and build custom cubes and dimensions.
• Conditional formatting and traffic lights to highlight important variances at a glance.
• Data entry and spreading capabilities that enable “what-if” business scenario modeling and forward planning based on actual data.
• Write-back capabilities that link analysis and planning processes for effective business optimization.
• The ability to embed live analysis objects and dashboards into Microsoft applications, including PowerPoint, Outlook and SharePoint.

IBM Cognos Express Xcelerator extends and transforms the familiar Microsoft Excel front-end with a powerful in-memory analytics engine. It’s perfectly suited for multidimensional business analysis and optimization, enabling a new level of insight and action.

• An Excel or Web-based interface that allows business users to easily contribute data using familiar Excel-authored reports and applications with no “coding” skills required.
• Dynamic modeling of hierarchies and dimensions to provide custom views or consolidations of information for different users.
• An unlimited number of ad hoc, “what-if” alternatives (sandboxes) that allow individuals, teams, divisions and entire companies to respond to rapidly changing business conditions.
• Centrally managed data, business hierarchies, rules and calculations to eliminate data silos and inconsistencies throughout the organization – all powered by an in-memory analytics server.
• Pre-built blueprints for key business optimization tasks, including expense and capital planning, workforce management and profitability analysis.
• Role-based security, structured workflows and clear audit trails to improve accountability and accuracy.
• Write-back capabilities that link “what-if” modeling results with business optimization and planning so you can align the right resources to capitalize on new opportunities.

 IBM Cognos Express Planner delivers a structured planning process that is easy to deploy and use. It transforms a company’s planning processes, enabling business users to react quickly to changing business conditions and to grow their business effectively.

• An intuitive planning process that is easy for managers to assemble, deploy and monitor.
• An easy-to-use, Web-based interface that allows finance and non-finance users to contribute plan data and view current plans with no “coding” skills required.
• Role-based security to ensure that business users see only those portions of the plan that are relevant to them.
• Advanced filtering features, such as hierarchy leveling, attribute values, element names (with aliases) and spelling patterns, for more finely grained simulations.
• Driver-based planning support with features such as pick lists, undo/redo, multi-pane docking and color-coded data changes to focus on key business drivers.
• Complete audit trails to satisfy regulatory compliance requirements.
• Complex on-the-fly analysis with the ability to drill down, sort, link and chart data.

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