Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Dashboards

Business dashboards communicate complex information quickly. They translate information from your various corporate systems and data into visually rich presentations using gauges, maps, charts, and other graphical elements to show multiple results together.

Cognos offers the full range of dashboards — operational, tactical, strategic — to help you monitor, measure, and manage corporate performance.

You can deploy Cognos dashboards as a standalone application or as a core element of an enterprise business intelligence or performance management platform.

Information-rich, visually appealing displays

• Provide business users at every level receive the information they need to make better decisions that improve business performance.
• Communicate common business patterns and relationships: trends, rank, part-to-whole, deviation, correlation.
• Wide array of chart types (bar, line, gauge, scatterplot, maps) let you match the data to the display.
• Conditional formatting and exception highlighting draw users' attention to sub-par results and areas that need immediate attention.
• Aggregate data from disparate systems into a single view.
• Drill-down / drill-through to reports and analysis for additional information and context.
• Control when and how you receive critical information by creating personalized alerts, based on custom data conditions.
• A single architecture for viewing, querying, analyzing, and authoring for collaborative contributions to any report or dashboard.
• Global dashboard filters let users seamlessly orchestrate changes across multiple objects in a portal page.

Operational dashboards
Track core operational processes with continuous data refreshes.

Benefits:

• Monitor operational processes as they happen.
• Get immediate visibility into key performance indicators (KPIs) for corrective action and rapid decision-making.
• Enable exception-based decisions with alerts.
• Provide links to associated reports.
• Self-serve authoring & editing.

Strategic dashboards/Scorecards
Monitor execution of corporate strategic objectives at each level of the organization.

Benefits:

• Track progress against strategic corporate goals
• Map key connections among departments and cause-and-effect relationships between or across departments.
• Support management methodologies including Balanced Scorecard, TQM, Six Sigma, etc.
• Drill-down to reports and analysis for additional information or context.