Cognos Mobile

Rich BI content that users can take action on anytime, anywhere

IBM Cognos Mobile extends interactive Cognos Business Intelligence to mobile devices such as BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad and others. With its rich client, Cognos Mobile lets users view and fully interact with Cognos reports, dashboards, metrics, analysis and other information in a secure environment. Users receive timely, informative and interactive information to support their decision-making, regardless of location.

Cognos Mobile:

Supports a variety of mobile technologies with a rich, interactive BI interface.
Offers multimodal work options including real-time monitoring, GPS integration and downloadable, offline reports.
Security protocols protect sensitive and proprietary business information.

Supports a variety of mobile technologies:

BlackBerry enabled device products
iPhone mobile digital devices
iPad mobile digital devices
Nokia devices using the Symbian operating system
Windows® Mobile operating system

Offers multimodal work options:

Users get a real-time view of Cognos Business Intelligence data, to ensure they have relevant information at any time
Users can also get real-time alerts and perform analysis on the spot with drill-down and filter capabilities
Mobile workers who need information based on their physical location at a given moment can have prompt values pre-filled based on GPS coordinates¹.
Offline users can continue to work with reports on their handheld devices with downloadable reports².

Security protocols:

Standard Cognos data encryption
Standard Cognos authentication, including support for custom Cognos authentication providers
Lease key technology
Device user authentication policies
Device-based mobile encrypted database
Standard device-specific secure data transmission and encryption
Device-based password protection
Remote locking function for the device database
Remote device wiping

[1] Available only on GPS-enabled BlackBerry devices

[2] iPhone devices not supported for disconnected report viewing

Cognos Mobile resources

Online demo: IBM Cognos Mobile
See how to get the targeted, interactive and personalized information you need to make informed decisions while you are away from the office.

White paper: Extending business intelligence with dashboards
Learn how a new generation of dashboards can enrich your business intelligence solutions and become an integral part of your business analytics arsenal.

White paper: Business intelligence for business users
Learn how important it is to address the different business intelligence needs of your business constituents, so they have insight when and where they need it.

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.

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