Cognos Executive Viewer

Self-service analytics and reporting for business users

IBM® Cognos® Executive Viewer delivers advanced analysis and reporting through web-based access to online analytical processing (OLAP) data sources. No programming or training is required for this complete solution, which provides business managers and analysts with fast answers to critical business questions.

Eliminate barriers to informed decision making with interactive self-service analytics.

Powerful ad hoc analysis—conduct what if scenario modeling and forecasting with writeback capabilities and simple data entry.
Easy navigation—retrieve detailed data with drill down or drill up capabilities.
Flexible reporting—create graphic reports and dashboards using options such as maps, dual axis and tables or charts.

Powerful ad hoc analysis

Access and modify authored analysis, and create unique ad hoc queries.
Use a point-and-click calculator and scorecard "traffic lights" to highlight exceptions.
Create what if scenarios, and conduct forecasting with advanced writeback capabilities and simple data entry.

Easy navigation

Search, sort and select dimension element attributes and data.
Retrieve detailed data with drill down or drill up capabilities.
Suppress information not pertinent to the analysis with Personalized Outlines.

Flexible reporting

Create graphic reports and dashboards with multiple maps, dual axis and tables or charts.
Print formatted presentations including title page, table of contents, headers and footers directly from the web.
Export data to popular applications such as Microsoft® Excel®, email or PDF.

Cognos Executive Viewer resources

White paper: Next-Generation Forecasting
Read how rolling forecasts offer a continuous enterprise picture of both current conditions and the short-term performance outlook.

White paper: Best Practice Approaches to Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting
Steve Player of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT) explains how IBM Cognos TM1® supports practices that are vital to the success of five leading organizations.

White paper: Finance Meets the Challenge of the "New Normal"
Learn about the practices and technologies that can help finance organizations anticipate and shape business outcomes in the "new normal."

Data sheet: IBM Cognos Executive Viewer
Learn how Cognos Executive Viewer provides business users with self-service, web-based access to information from OLAP databases for advanced analysis and reporting.

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