Extended Knowledge: Cognos Business Intelligence

The Knowledge You Need To Run Your Business Effectively

Glovia Business Intelligence take the volume of data your organization collects and stores and turns it into meaningful, actionable information. Our solution helps you improve your business performance and make faster, more informed decisions.

Glovia's solution helps you gain valuable insight into the performance of your business. It includes a powerful event and exception management tool, a web-based document management system, and the following leading business intelligence applications from Cognos:

• Cognos Impromptu PDF — Cognos Impromptu™ delivers managed reporting for consistent, fact-based decision-making. Managed reporting enables report authors to create reports drawn from any data source. These reports can then be delivered to report consumers. Report authors use Impromptu to create business-context reports. Report authors can author virtually any report using Impromptu's superior frame-based reporting interface. Report data can come from any source, and reports can be deployed to Impromptu users across LANs and WANs, as well as to mobile users.
• Cognos Powerplay PDF — Cognos PowerPlay™ is the world's best-selling OLAP (online analytical processing) software. It enables users to explore large volumes of summarized data with sub-second response times in a Web, Windows, or Excel environment. With Cognos PowerPlay, users at any business or technical skill level in a company can perform their own multidimensional analysis, create reports, and share them for better decision-making. Cognos PowerPlay provides both a multidimensional data store and a feature rich end-user experience. Its multi-server, load-balanced architecture is easy to install and manage, and it scales to thousands of users.
• Cognos ReportNet PDF — Cognos ReportNet™ is the first completely Web-based enterprise reporting solution to address all of your organization's reporting requirements. With Cognos ReportNet, one reporting system can produce production reports such as invoices, statements, and statutory reports as well as the broad range of business reports that help everyone in your organization understand their operations better and make effective business decisions.
• Cognos Visualizer PDF — Cognos Visualizer™ dashboards take you beyond traditional analysis: highly intuitive graphic analyses let you quickly grasp trends in business performance and act on your insight. Cognos Visualizer provides powerful visual analysis to communicate complex business data quickly and intuitively. By going beyond simple pie or bar graphs, you can view and combine data in a way that lets you immediately see areas of concern, trends, and other indicators.
• Cognos Controller PDF — Cognos Controller™ is a Web-based application that provides a solid foundation for smooth data collection and dissemination of information across organizations. Cognos Controller ensures that your company has a single, shared source of strategic data that offers authorized users a high degree of accessibility and speed regardless of users' physical locations. At the heart of the system is a centralized database that ensures efficient processing and administration of data and enables continuous feedback and greater organizational commitment to decisions and their implementation.