It's the first time, the market has seen the packaging of all these capabilities—reporting, analysis, planning—in one simple solution that is easy to install, use and buy. IBM Cognos Express provides midsize companies consistent, reliable information for better, faster decision-making to manage costs, drive profitability and increase growth.
For organizations that are just beginning to develop a BI strategy, IBM Cognos Express includes everything needed to get started right away. It offers powerful—but easy to use—capabilities for both novices and advanced users to encourage broad adoption throughout a company.
IBM Cognos Express is a complete solution for business intelligence and planning. Purchase it in its entirety or start with the specific capabilities needed today with an easy growth path toward the future. You now have the freedom to think big, start small, start anywhere.
- Self-service reporting and ad hoc query
- Empowers business users to access, modify and create reports with comprehensive self-service reporting and ad hoc query capabilities.
- Delivers the right information to all users to meet their unique business needs, using a Web-based interface.
- Freeform analysis and visualization
- Quickly translates raw data into high-impact analysis and visualization.
- Offers sophisticated analysis with rich visual presentations that include easy and intuitive drill down and drill up capabilities and the flexibility to slice and dice information. Uses a fast and powerful in-memory analytics engine to create "what if" scenarios for business optimization.
- Excel-based planning and business analysis
- Transforms common spreadsheets with a powerful in-memory analytics engine for real-time multidimensional analysis, planning, budgeting and forecasting.
- Extends the familiar Excel interface, making it fast and easy for business users to gain better business insight and take immediate action to improve business outcomes.