To be agile and compete with larger rivals, organisations of any size require consistent, reliable information to answer three critical business questions: How are we doing? Why? and What should we be doing? With insights drawn from answering these questions, managers can make better, faster decisions to drive greater efficiencies, reduce costs and identify new growth opportunities.

IBM Cognos Express is the first and only integrated business intelligence (BI) and planning solution purpose-built to meet the needs of midsize companies. It delivers the essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that midsize companies need at a price they can afford. Everything is included in a pre-configured solution that is easy to install, easy to use and easy to buy.

Cornerstone can provide you with a wealth of experience in all areas of Cognos Express. We have consultants implementing IBM Cognos solutions for both Enterprise and Midsize businesses. We can bring recognised industry standards and best practices to your business. Our flexible approach means we can tailor the implementation to meet your needs. We engage our clients throughout the project and encourage knowledge transfer. We even have our own IBM Partnered Education Centre where we can provide IBM standard or tailored courses for your staff.

At Cornerstone we strive to provide our customers with the best complete solution possible and can provide ongoing support so your initial implementation can grow and mature with your company.

Easy to buy, for rapid ROI

IBM Cognos Express is packaged and priced to let companies start small with only the capabilities they need, gain immediate business value and expand their solution as they grow. Its affordable pricing includes everything you need to get started. There are no hidden fees for additional software often seen with other solutions.

The IBM Cognos Express platform is based on 4 products which are implemented (and sold) as separate modules:

Cognos Express Xcelerator - Microsoft Excel based planning and business analysis tool, which implements a powerful in-memory analytics engine for OLAP analysis, reporting and planning. The Xcelerator (Cognos’s TM1 engine) can be accessed with an Excel interface or Web. It provides what-if analysis, write back capabilities and workflow management.

Cognos Express Reporter - reporting and ad-hoc query tool, connects to a variety of data sources (relational, OLAP and desktop files), can be used to create operational reports, ad-hoc queries and dashboards. Reports created with reporter can be delivered via web, email, made available on the Portal or sent out as PDF or Excel.

Cognos Express Advisor - real-time adhoc analysis and visualisation tool based on the in-memory multidimensional model. Advisor provides a powerful analysis interface, lets users create what-if models and allows standard OLAP operations like drill down, slice and dice and data filtering. The dashboard-style analysis can be embedded into Microsoft Office applications.

Cognos Express Planner - planning, budgeting and forecasting application which provides a set of templates, real-time engine and automated workflows.

Easy to install and deploy

IBM Cognos Express includes everything you need for immediate use in a preconfigured solution. It includes a powerful in-memory analytics server, a common Web portal and tightly integrated security for fast, comprehensive and secure BI and planning. It plugs into existing infrastructure with minimal impact and can be deployed in as little as an hour. A single, centralised Web-based console manages all administrative aspects of installation, deployment and ongoing management, using only a few simple mouse clicks. There is no extra burden on IT staff and no additional investment in software infrastructure.

Find out more … attend one of Cornerstone’s regular Cognos Express breakfast seminars

Or contact a Cornerstone Representative:

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