Business intelligence

Why IBM Business Intelligence software?

IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence delivers a revolutionary new user experience and expands traditional business intelligence (BI) with planning, scenario modeling, real-time monitoring and predictive analytics. Using a limitless BI workspace that supports how people think and work—in the office, on the go and even offline—you can interact with, search and assemble all perspectives of your business. Built on a proven technology platform, Cognos Business Intelligence is designed to upgrade seamlessly and to scale cost-effectively for the broadest of deployments.

With IBM Cognos Business Intelligence software you can:

  • See results, understand what drives the numbers and set targets.
  • Identify and analyze opportunities and trends.
  • Author and share information the way you want to—in reports, dashboards and scorecards.
  • Experience insight with quick and easy access to analysis anywhere you go.
  • Collaborate to create a common context that every department can use for decision-making.
  • Deliver trusted information for a single version of the truth.

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence provides a complete range of BI capabilities to your desktop, notebook, tablet and smart phone. It helps you gain more value from your existing investments in data and infrastructure.

Business intelligence capabilities

  • Query and Reporting

    Query and Reporting

    Use comprehensive query and reporting to make smarter decisions.

  • Analysis

    Analysis

    Drive better, smarter business decisions with wide-ranging analysis.

  • Scorecarding

    Scorecarding

    Successfully link strategy to operations.

  • Dashboards

    Dashboards

    Monitor, measure and manage corporate performance at a glance.

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Business Intelligence Resources

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See how one unified BI workspace helps you to assemble and explore any type of data. This dynamic, highly personalized interface enables you to make smarter decisions, faster.

Business Intelligence for Business Users

In this paper, 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.

What's New for Executives in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.1

See how to get an at-a-glance view of operational and financial performance using the latest capabilities of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence.

Building a Performance-Directed Culture

Learn about the six criteria of a performance-directed culture, as outlined by Howard Dresner, "the father of business intelligence." Read his article from the Balanced Scorecard Report.