Cognos Insight

Import, merge and analyze any type of data

• Leverage personal and corporate data, as well as trusted business intelligence (BI) data and reports without scripting. Connect to local files, databases, existing BI reports and even predictive data. 
• Add to or revise existing data, and automatically apply changes across large data sets with powerful data spreading functions. 

Create custom dashboards and applications without scripting

• Break down and examine data to view it in a way that makes the most sense to you or your business using your mouse to navigate. 
• Use exception highlighting to compare and demonstrate exceptions in your data on the fly.
• Go from raw data to analysis and a published dashboard in as little as 60 seconds.

Optimize outcomes through what-if analysis

• Analyze and optimize your plans based on different assumptions that take into account ever-changing market conditions.  
• Model best-case, worst-case and most-likely outcomes based on your key business drivers.
• Create custom rules that can be used to automatically perform comparisons or calculations.  

Create compelling visualizations

• Create and share compelling visualizations that clearly communicate your analytic results.
• Control the look and feel of your analysis so you can deliver new insights in the most meaningful and understandable way.
• Choose from a rich set of chart types and predefined design themes to add style and visual appeal.
• Filter results based on the association between related groups of information, and apply simple search to drill down to a particular member in a set.

Publish work as a shared application

• Share and use applications built with Cognos Insight across a workgroup or throughout the enterprise. 
• Publish insights to a Cognos server or provide users with access from a variety of mobile devices, including the Apple iPad, as well as through the web and Microsoft® Excel.
• Connect to an IBM Cognos TM1® planning application, conduct detailed what-if scenario modeling with both corporate and personal data, and write-back directly to the centrally managed plan.