Cognos Business Intelligence

See your business clearly with Cognos BI.

Key information is delivered quickly and directly to the desktops of decision makers. Essential trends and correlations are highlighted, revealing which areas of the business are in need of attention or improvement.

Business intelligence enables you to monitor your business activity, manage your corporate performance and gain answers to key questions:

• How is my business doing?
  
  Measuring and monitoring performance with Cognos scorecards and dashboards tracks your key data and enables you to see how well your company is performing.




• Why is that happening?
  
  Cognos reporting and analysis let you see data, gain context, understand trends, and spot anomalies.




• What should we be doing?
  
  Cognos planning, budgets, and forecasts let you create a reliable view of the future – and communicate plans enterprise-wide.

Cognos Reporting

• Operational reporting is key to effective business decision-making and planning. It provides day-to-day reference data that enables business users to monitor the performance of the organisation.
• Author and distribute every report type: from high-volume production reports, individual ad hoc queries, to centrally authored reports with self-service customisation.
• Driving operational reporting from Business Intelligence engines means that there is a single source of data; strategic decisions are based on a solid, undisputed foundation. Spend less time debating the numbers and more time deciding what to do. The most complex data structures and processes can be standardised and distributed widely, enabling all business users to access them.

The result: higher user adoption, better decisions across the organisation, and the ability to respond to threats and opportunities.

Frontline Consultancy has considerable experience in consolidating data from a wide range of ERP, CRM and other source applications and systems. This means we can devise a low cost, flexible and quality driven approach to operational reporting for our customers. The result: an intuitive, single view of your core analytical data - presented in a format relevant and customised to your business requirements.

Analytics

• Explore and analyse large volumes of complex data using IBM Cognos Powerplay. Whether seeking out new markets, analysing business activities and customers or evaluating performance, our Cognos partnership means that Frontline Consultancy can help you to access customised and interactive analysis – that is also very easy to use.
• Frontline Consultancy can merge multiple sources of operational data - from disparate sources and any application - to provide you with an analysis tool that lets you see the trends that really matter. Importantly, we can make this process intuitive and seamless, adding real value to an organisation's data.
• Real-time analysis using Cognos enables you to explore information from a variety of dimensions. See how your results change over time, in different regions, or for different products. See information by department, by region, by product, or by whatever measure you require. Drill down from a summary to transaction-level detail.