Complete business view based on a modern SOA
The Cognos 8 platform is the common foundation for data access, system management, and information delivery that underpins Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and other Cognos performance management products. The Cognos 8 platform provides:
Complete, consistent access to information the business can understand, own, and trust.
Broad system management for IT to deploy, manage, and scale with confidence to meet service commitments.
Modern service-oriented architecture (SOA) to leverage your infrastructure, adapt to change, and embrace open standards for long-term use and growth.
Complete, consistent access to information for the business
Open data access. A single query engine and choice of sourcing strategies provides complete access to all of your data sources.
Consistent information. Deliver a "model once/deploy anywhere" common business view, available in any language. Publish and secure corporate information so users only access information pertinent to them but share the common view.
Data quality. Deliver data the business trusts by systematically applying data quality business rules as you identify, quantify, and resolve any issues.
Optimized modeling. Teams of modelers can use built-in proven practices to build optimal, multi-tier models. IT can insulate business users from grappling with modeling complexity while managing changes in the system or demand.
Broad system management for IT to deploy, manage, and scale
Enterprise-scale. Broadly deploy software without requiring end-user downloads. Benefit from built-in fault tolerance, a predictable and linear response, and comprehensive security.
Complete view of system activity. Administrators gain a complete view of system activity and access to hundreds of system metrics and thresholds.
Improve performance by taking action before problems affect your end users.
Streamline environment changes. Upgrade Manager lets you test, compare, and summarize report results between two application environments (e.g., new and older versions of Cognos 8 BI).
Modern service-oriented architecture (SOA)
Leverage standards today & forward. The Cognos 8 platform is built on a modern service-oriented architecture, based on open standards, and is completely environment neutral.
Flexible infrastructure. The Cognos 8 platform can scale up or out as needed with peer-to-peer services connected from anywhere on the network.
Embed and extend BI in your applications. Customers, partners, and Cognos consultants can innovate and customize your performance management applications due to the SOA-based Cognos 8 platform and its purpose-built services. The single, open API gives you full access to functionality so you can embed performance management capabilities into other applications.