Cognos BI Series (Impromptu and Powerplay)

With Cognos Business Intelligence Series , BI gets out of the box and delivers information into the hands of the people who need it now. It integrates business intelligence components into a single, end-to-end business intelligence framework that can serve all of the diverse informational requirements of users across large organizations.

Cognos BI Series brings together the broad range of business intelligence capabilities required by organizations committed to delivering the right information for better decisions

Reporting & Analysis : Deliver operational and management reports, explorable analyses, ad hoc queries, and rich data visualizations across the organization.

Event Detection : Deliver event-driven business intelligence via email to any user, anywhere, on connected or wireless devices.

Data Preparation/ETL : Extract, transform, and load data from anywhere to create coordinated data marts

Business Intelligence Framework : Build and deploy manageable business intelligence applications with common security, shared metadata, central administration, XML-based Web Services, and a customizable Web portal