Increase business intelligence user adoption rates within your organization by letting users view and consume reports, scorecards and other BI content using familiar applications or devices, such as a BlackBerry®, search engine, MS Office application or Web browser.

Leverage the IBM® Cognos® 8 Business Intelligence architecture, including security and metadata. There is no need to deploy or maintain a separate business intelligence environment.

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Dashboard

IBM® Cognos® 8 Go! Dashboard lets users build and edit dynamic and interactive dashboards using a drag-and-drop Flash interface.

• Flash-based graphics let you build attractive, interactive dashboards quickly.
• Client-side data capture gives you near-instant response times to repeated queries and layout changes.
• Drag-and drop-interface lets you create dashboards on the fly; no need to wait for IT or search for existing content.
• Build your dashboards using trusted Cognos information.
• Bring external information into your business with RSS feeds and widgets.

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Mobile

IBM® Cognos® 8 Go! Mobile lets users securely receive and interact with reports and analysis through their BlackBerry® handheld devices.

• Single authoring environment will let users access BI content regardless of language or locale.
• Rich client will provide users with actual IBM Cognos 8 BI content, not static renditions authored specifically for the mobile device.
• Leverages IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence, including report structures, security, metadata, etc. No need to build or configure a separate wireless environment.
• Purpose-built rich client will deliver optimized viewing and interactivity.

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search

IBM® Cognos® 8 Go! Search lets users find existing reports in IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence more quickly. It also lets you integrate BI content into enterprise search applications such as those provided by Autonomy, Fast, Google and IBM.

• Search a broad array of BI content and data sources, including relational, OLAP and unstructured data.
• Search full data content of reports, as well as titles, descriptions and metadata.
• Industry-standard tips and techniques such as Boolean logic, phrases and word stemming helps users fine-tune search terms and eliminate ambiguity.
• Sophisticated ranking and contextual support of search criteria delivers the most relevant data.

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Office

IBM® Cognos® 8 Go! Office lets your users view, interact with and refresh BI content within MS Office applications such as Microsoft® Excel®, PowerPoint® and Word®.

• Insert BI elements such as cross tabs, graphs, charts and tables.
• Automatically refresh BI content and maintain links to contextual information.
• Create complex desktop reports such as briefing books and dashboards.

Events and Alerts

IBM Cognos 8 BI business event management tracks significant events that need attention. It monitors these events and uses decision-process and business-process automation to compress the time to action and resolution.

• Using event conditions and agents, specify the events to be monitored and the tasks to manage them.
• Users are notified of events via email alerts or through dynamic Web portal headlines.
• Initiate an automated response when human intervention is not required.