Cognos Mashup Service

Integrate Cognos Business Intelligence content into third-party applications

IBM® Cognos® Mashup Service allows advanced business users and application developers to embed Cognos Business Intelligence content into other business applications, processes or data visualization content. Using this solution, IT can easily integrate business intelligence into the systems with which users are most familiar.

Cognos Mashup Service lets you integrate business intelligence content into third-party applications or processes to create new views of data.

Extend business intelligence content to the entire organization—allow users to see information in different ways and gain new insights.
Reduce mashup development time—use data set controls, output formats and business logic to reduce mashup coding time.
Use industry-standard protocols—take advantage of the latest Representational State Transfer (REST) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) protocols to extend and integrate your data.

Extend business intelligence content to the entire organization

Reach business users in the applications and processes they use every day.
Combine internal data with changing external content such as market information.
Help users across the organization find different ways to look at business intelligence information.

Reduce mashup development time

Use existing Cognos Business Intelligence security to minimize development time.
Access business logic within the content including conditional formatting, prompts and drill functions.
Use various output formats, such as HTML fragments, XML and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), to meet customer and application requirements.

Use industry-standard protocols

Take advantage of industry-standard REST or SOAP protocols for making requests.
Integrate content with alternative presentation technologies using Web 2.0 technology standards.
Work with Microsoft® .NET applications and SOAP toolkits.

Cognos Mashup Service resources

Demo: IBM Cognos Mashup Service
See how to embed Cognos Business Intelligence content into other applications or processes to deliver information to various users.

White paper: Intelligence unleashed
Learn how Cognos Business Intelligence can help organizations make smarter decisions and drive better business results.

White paper: The New Promise of Business Intelligence
Learn how Cognos Business Intelligence software enables you to access virtually any data source and provide detailed, understandable views of the data to all users.