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With its rich client, Cognos Mobile lets users view and fully interact with Cognos Business Intelligence reports, dashboards, metrics, analysis and other information, all in a secure environment.
Cognos Mobile does away with the traditional limitations of distributing BI on handheld devices, such as static PDF reports, awkward spreadsheet applications or limited user experiences. It also eliminates the high expense of customizing applications for mobile technology.
Cognos Mobile supports the following mobile technologies:
- BlackBerry enabled device products
- iPhone mobile digital devices
- iPad mobile digital devices
- Nokia devices using the Symbian operating system
- Windows® Mobile operating system
Interactive user interface
- Cognos Mobile provides a rich, interactive BI experience for users. Users can make the most of the features on their handheld devices, such as the popular touch screens.
Real-time information monitoring
- Users get a real-time view of Cognos Business Intelligence data, to ensure they have relevant information at any time.
- Users can also get real-time alerts and perform analysis on the spot with drill-down and filter capabilities.
Location aware
- Mobile workers who need information based on their physical location at a given moment can have prompt values pre-filled based on GPS coordinates2.
Offline data exploration
- Offline users can continue to work with reports on their handheld devices with downloadable reports3.
Performance and maintenance
- IT maintains centralized administration of Cognos Mobile, and can install Cognos Mobile remotely on a device.
- Data is compressed before transmission and again after the report is saved to optimize performance.
Security
- Standard Cognos data encryption
- Standard Cognos authentication, including support for custom Cognos authentication providers
- Lease key technology
- Device user authentication policies
- Device-based mobile encrypted database
- Standard device-specific secure data transmission and encryption
- Device-based password protection
- Remote locking function for the device database
- Remote device wiping
Who’s using IBM Cognos Mobile?
- Executives monitoring the health of the business and the sales pipeline.
- Field sales reps looking at customer history (orders, contact, open issues, etc.).
- Airline tarmac workers tracking lost/found luggage.
- Oil rig inspectors viewing inspection, maintenance reports.
- Field telecom technicians viewing daily jobs prioritized by customer, urgency, complexity.
- Police officers monitoring call in progress status and crime statistics.
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