This Presentation focus on wt is business intelligent and tool available in market and which is demand high in other competitor and details about cognos ...

1. By
VIGNESH.R

2. BI defined as Business Intelligence
BI refers to technologies application and practices for
the collection integration, analysis and presentation
of business information
Business intelligence tools are a type of application
software designed to retrieve, analyze and report data
for business intelligence. The tools generally read data
that have been previously stored, often, though not
necessarily, in a data warehouse or data mart.

3. To support better, improved and more efficient Decision
Making
BI systems provide historical, current, and predictive
views of business operations.,
BI system information from Uses data that has been
gathered into a data warehouse or data mart.

4. Spreadsheets
Reporting and querying software: tools that extract,
sort, summarize, and present selected data
OLAP: Online analytical processing
Digital dashboards
Data mining
Data warehousing
Decision engineering
Process mining
Business performance management
Local information systems

5. IBM's purchase of Cognos and other business
intelligence software vendors was a step in
establishing IBM as a BI "megavendor" (along with
Oracle, Microsoft, and SAP).
 Due to many consolidations in the BI industry, there
are only a few independent "pure-play" vendors
remaining (SAS and Micro Strategy being the largest).
 Hyperion from Oracle Corporation & Business Object
from SAP

6. Cognos is Business Intelligence software that
enables users to extract data, analyze it, and then
assemble reports
Cognos is a web-based enterprise reporting solution.
Cognos allows you to gather data from various storage
locations and assemble the data into a personalized
package
IBM acquired Cognos (Jan 2008) ,Cognos name
continues to be applied to IBM's line of business
intelligence and performance management products

7. The software is designed to enable business users
without technical knowledge to extract corporate
data, analyze it and assemble reports.
Cognos product for the individuals, workgroups
department, midsize & large enterprise.
Cognos software is designed to help everyone in your
organization make the decisions that achieve better
business outcomes—for now and in the future
More than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries so
they in market

8.  Cognos Connection (the web portal for IBM Cognos
BI. It is the starting point for the browser-based access
to all functions provided with the suite. With the help
of this, content can be searched in the form of reports,
scorecards and agents.
 Report Studio (Professional report authoring tool
formatted for the web)
Query Studio (Ad hoc report authoring tool with
instant data preview)
Analysis Studio (Explore multi-dimensional cube data
to answer business questions)

9. Limited Resources
Time-consuming and cumbersome presentation of
information
IBM Cognos 8 BI provides a more time efficient, concise
and clear method of reporting financial data to support
better, improved, more efficient Decision Making.

10. IBM Cognos 8 BI, initially launched in September 2005,
combined the features of several previous products,
including ReportNet, PowerPlay, Metrics Manager,
NoticeCast, and DecisionStream.
IBM Cognos Express BI, launched in 2008 for mid
range companies.
IBM Cognos 10 BI , launched in October 2010, it bring
together social collaboration &analytics for business
users for single user ,user-friendly ,online through
mobile, such as ipad,iphone,etc..

11. When a report has multiple formats or languages,
when a report has a delivery method of save, print, or
email, and when a report is burst.
 Hypertext markup language (.html)
Adobe portable document format (.pdf)
Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (.xls or .xlsx)
Delimited text (.csv)
Extensible markup language (.xml)
If you are the owner of a report or have the necessary
permissions, you can specify the default format for
each report.

12. Web Application
No software loaded onto user machines
Web address provided via Management Reporting
website or email
User Login setup
Request for Cognos access available via MR website or
email
Users will be setup within Cognos with using existing
UTSA Login ID & Password

13. Framework Manager
Infrastructure organizer for Cognos: security,
administration, metadata and portal.
Data View
A single store of related information containing a
number of Data Elements. Also referred to simply as a
View.
Role
Your security is based on permission to view selected
data within your individual account, and roles to
which you belong. Cognos supports the union of
access permissions.

14. Term Description
Consumer Consumers can read and execute reports in Cognos
based on security. Consumers can also interact with
prompts, and define output reports to other formats
such as PDF and CSV. This is the most widely spread
role/user in Cognos.
Query User Query Users have the same access permissions as
Consumers. They can also use Cognos Query Studio to
create ad hoc queries, simple reports, and charts.
Report Author Authors have the same access permissions as Query
Users. They can also use Cognos Report Studio which
provides the ability to create sophisticated, richly
formatted reports and charts with complex prompts
and filters.
Data Modeler Data Modelers create packages that define a subset of
data that is relevant to an intended group of users.

15. Followings are they advantage of Cognos:
Planning
Analysis
Forecasting
Scorecard

16. IBM Cognos BI is secured by setting permissions and
enabling user authentication.
When anonymous access is enabled, you can use IBM
Cognos BI without authenticating as a specific user.
In IBM Cognos BI, administrators define permissions
so that users can access functionality. For example, to
edit a report using IBM Cognos Report Studio, you
must have the appropriate security and licensing
permissions.
In addition, each entry in IBM Cognos Connection is
secured to define who can read, edit, and run the entry

17. Firefox 3.6 Windows / OS X/UNIX/Linux Compatible
Firefox 3.5 Windows / OS X/UNIX/Linux Active
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 Windows Active
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Windows Active
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2 Windows XP
Compatible

18. It Support all Operation system (platform
independent) such as Linux,Unix,Solarix,Windows
Mac Os.
H/w Process Pentium and above and more than 1GB
RAM.

19. Cognos training provide across India Most of they
center in Bangalore city.
In Chennai Course fee around 10,000 and above and
duration as 40 hours. Such center as Green Tech
Besent technologies..etc