Cognos Business Intelligence is a fully integrated BI toolkit packed with functionality. Cognos is recognised as the worldwide leader in Business Intelligence solutions and is positioned in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner Inc.’s 2008 Business Intelligence Platforms Magic Quadrant analysis of top BI vendors.

The Cognos BI solution is fully web-enabled from a user’s perspective. It comprises Cognos Connection, a web portal for Cognos BI, and more than seven separate business intelligence tools. These include:

· Report Studio. A zero-footprint report developer. Reports are written in XML, making them highly portable, editable and easy to deploy

· Query Studio. An ad-hoc drag-and-drop query tool, including such features as calculations, charts and prompts

· Framework Manager. A high power metadata modelling tool including multiple data sources, folders, pre-programmed prompts, lookups, filters and built-in security

· Data Manager. A high level ETL tool particulary well suited to creating dimensional, ‘star schema’ data warehouses. Includes comprehensive automated logging and very powerful job stream functionality

· Analysis Studio. Allows online slice-and-dice, drill-up and drill-down analysis of dimensional data. Analyses can be saved as reports and drill through to detailed reporting is available

· Event Studio. Set up alerts for any predefined condition, such as KPI alerts or data warehouse load failures. Alerts can be emailed to recipients

· Metric Studio. Create metric scorecards which can be integrated into secure, personalised web portal pages alongside powerful information dashboards. Be on top of your organisation’s vital KPIs and measures