Cognos 8 ReportNet

One product for all business intelligence reports including business dashboards; which are usable by anyone, in any format, and in any environment.

Cognos ReportNet improves your performance

• Reduced costs - complete reporting coverage and zero-footprint environment reduce maintenance.
• Quicker results - seamless integration and adaptive authoring shorten reporting times.
• Improved decision-making - reports and dashboards present critical data in easy-to-understand formats.
• Increased agility - create one version of data truth across divisions, departments, countries, and more.

Product Highlights

• Web services-based architecture integrates into your IT environment.
• Complete reporting coverage lets you standardize on one product and architecture.
• Author all reports in the same environment - including dashboards.
• Advanced visualisations for quality projects such as Six Sigma.
• Multilingual capabilities let you author once and deploy globally.
• Combine SAP and non-SAP data within a single report.
• Proven scalability to hundreds of thousands of users.
• Access, craft, and manage BI content from MS Office.

Features and Benefits - Advanced authoring capabilities

• One authoring environment for creating all report types, including dashboards.
• Federated queries—one query drawing on multivendor data sources—even within a single reporting object.
• Adaptive authoring automatically adjusts report layout when objects are added, moved or removed.
• Embed live applications, Web sites and non-BI content within a report.
• Drag-and-drop authoring incorporates data, text, charts, graphs, and images.
• Edit reports with prompts and toolbar commands.
• Advanced visualisations and charting abilities through Cognos Visualizer.
• Work with data using familiar business terms.
• Use a variety of charts: crosstabs, bar / 3D bar, pie / doughnut, line, gauge, funnel, scatter, dot density, waterfall, and more.
• Create complex, multi-page layouts using different data sources without programming or workarounds.
• Conditional suppression and automatic calculations.

Features and Benefits - Data access

• High performance federated data access across all sources.
• Complete connectivity regardless of environment - relational databases, SAP® BW, Excel, XML, JDBC, LDAP and Web Services.
• Support for Windows, UNIX, and Linux operating systems, including mixed platform deployments.
• SAP-certified BAPI® and iViews, Certified Powered by SAP NetWeaver™.
• Load balancing across Windows and Unix platforms.
• Single portal, metadata layer, and point of administration.

Features and Benefits - Open architecture

• Open architecture leverages XML, SOAP and WSDL.
• Fully published SDK.
• Foundation for the entire Cognos Enterprise BI suite
• Leverages existing security models and supports multiple security authentication providers.

Features and Benefits - Powerful distribution

• Proven scalability to 190,000 named users. Reporting times of 2.5 seconds.
• Out-of-the-box integration with SAP and IBM Websphere portals.
• Burst personalized reports to multiple locations and in multiple formats.
• User interface supports 10+ languages; reports delivered in 25+ languages.
• Multiple export formats: Excel, PDF, XML, HTML, and CSV.
• Multilingual capabilities automatically deliver reports in users' working language.
• Stateless connections use pooled connections to service report requests.
• Import and manipulate BI content in MS Office.