Used with All Your Systems
Cognos BI works with all modern data management products and can import from older "legacy" systems. You can utilise data from your main Operational and Business systems and integrate data sets (like budgets and forecasts) built, for example, in Microsoft Access or Excel.

Cognos makes light work of creating complex, multi-page board reports without programming or workarounds. You can also merge data from separate systems into single PowerPlay "cubes" to allow analysis across areas of the business (for example, activity, finance and personnel).

BI allows Information staff to ensure that managers have a stable, clean and accessible management information base. It provides the summary information you need for periodic reports and time based information for trend analysis; and it presents information using terms that managers understand.

Results of inquiries can be output as high quality reports including your letterhead and logo, ready to send out straight from the printer or fax. Or you can export data to other packages, like Microsoft Office. This integration allows you to automate the production of your periodic reports.