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IBM Cognos Analytics is the new name for, and the next version of, IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

Cognos 10 capabilities still available in IBM Cognos Analytics

The IBM Cognos platform is an open, enterprise-class platform that can provide your users with the business intelligence and performance management content they need to understand your business and help improve results.

Disclosure Management brings together business intelligence data and performance management reports and combines them with narrative analysis in a controlled, auditable environment.

IBM Cognos TM1 software provides a real-time approach to consolidating, viewing, and editing enormous volumes of multidimensional data

COGNOS Planning lets you create and control plans and budgets, engaging people outside finance in the process.

COGNOS Controller offers Web-based consolidation and financial reporting.

The UNICOM PowerHouse family of tools provides the ideal application development environment for platform-independent server-based, client/server, or Web deployment.

UNICOM Finance lets finance professionals build and deploy financial reporting, budgeting, allocation and consolidation applications in an all-in-one financial analytics platform.

IBM Cognos Express delivers the reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that workgroups and midsize companies need at a price they can afford. This scalable, preconfigured solution can help you discover and act on new insights quickly – while minimizing demands on your IT staff.

Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is the only BI product to deliver the complete range of BI capabilities: reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, business event management as well as data integration, on a single, proven architecture.

The Series 7 suite of products is deployed by tens of thousands of customers worldwide, meeting their needs for critical business information today. However, many organizations face growing demands for lower TCO (total cost of ownership), more global operations and increasing agility.

Build, distribute, and view multi-object dashboards with graphical elements such as gauges, charts, and clickable pictures. Connect dashboards with underlying tabular data, letting people go from a high-level view to a deeper understanding.

Cognos PowerPlay, the world's best-selling OLAP software, lets users analyze large volumes of data with sub-second response times.

COGNOS Impromptu delivers managed reporting for consistent, fact-based decision-making. Managed reporting enables report authors to create reports drawn from any data source.

Web-based ad hoc query for real-time exploration.

Monitor your performance against your priorities with scorecards. Set metrics, populate them with data, and link them to show performance against your key business drivers. Enable your Balanced Scorecard.

DecisionStream ETL (extraction, transformation, and load) software lets you unite disparate data into an integrated BI foundation to deliver the reports and analysis that make operational data available for timely reporting.

All you wanted to know about Automation (tips and tricks, FAQs and sample code for Access Manager, Upfront, Transformer, PowerPlay, PPES, Impromptu, IWR, Metrics Manager, DecisionStream etc) BUT were too embarrassed to ask

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How to best integrate the Cognos solution into your applications.

Performance tuning tips, techniques, and questions to ensure that the Cognos portion of your solution performs at its best.

How to change the look and feel of the Cognos solution to more closely match your own solution appearance.

Integrating, automating, and simplifying security with the Cognos solution.

Links to Cognos information on the IBM website.

Employment opportunities in the COGNOS industry

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The repository of all the features and fixes we would like to see.

A brief introduction and personal profile detailing your roles and achievements in the COGNOS industry. (*strictly no email addresses please)

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