IBM Cognos 8 BI Reporting enables you to make smarter business decisions by providing a comprehensive set of reporting capabilities and access to the information you need. Reporting with IBM Cognos 8 BI delivers a single, Web-based, solution for all components of the reporting lifecycle:

• Self-service reporting enables business users to get the information they need quickly and easily without relying on IT.
• Author once, access anywhere enables IT to create a single report that users can access on multiple devices, in 25+ languages, in multiple formats, and in other applications and processes
• Report lifecycle enables collaboration between business and IT by enabling the sharing of queries and reports

Professional report authoring tools that are easy to use and minimize effort for report authors:

• Create and modify reports with flexible zone-based layout that automatically adjusts to fit different elements and objects
• Author and work with all report types and expand the base of potential users for each report
• Create and deploy a single report that can be executed across multiple languages
• Build report templates that include standard report objects, queries, and layouts
• Flexible distribution methods: scheduled, event-driven, centralized Web-based access, email, application integration, Microsoft Office support
• Adobe PDF, XML, HTML and CSV output types
• Integrates with existing investments in security, applications servers, and other IT infrastructure

Adaptable to Optimize Business Performance

• Open data access provides complete, accurate and consistent information for all users of data from multiple sources
• Integrates with existing investments in security, applications servers, and other IT infrastructure
• Real-time monitoring integration with IBM Cognos Now! enables operational performance management with reporting for fast changing environments, such as call centers, utilities and other organizations
• IBM Cognos Analytic Applications speed time to value by providing adaptable, packaged best practice reports and analysis capabilities for HR, Customer and Sales, Finance and Supply Chain
• IBM Cognos 8 Go! Mobile lets you access and use reports from your mobile devices

IBM Cognos 8 BI reporting optional capabilities include:

• Integration with predictive analytics from SPSS, an IBM company, to provide insight into data and enables prediction of future results
• IBM Cognos Content Analytics integration to deliver visibility from the content and context of unstructured text information
• Learn more about our integration with real time monitoring of operational KPIs to enhance your reporting capabilities.