IBM Cognos Now! Operational Business Intelligence

Overview

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IBM Cognos Now! is a family of operational business intelligence and performance management solutions available as appliances or hosted software-as-a-service (SaaS) models.

Operational business intelligence lets decision-makers proactively track, monitor, and respond to continuously up-to-date operational metrics in real-time or near real-time, with minimal IT intervention, and for a low total cost of ownership (TCO).

The industry's first BI appliance

IBM Cognos Now! delivers highly visual, interactive, and self-service dashboards, data integration, analysis, and reports, all prepackaged in a hardware appliance.

• Continuous monitoring of your business operations: The IBM Cognos Now! appliance streams operational data from disparate sources into a patent-pending 64-bit memory-based Streaming Data Store.



• Interactive self-service dashboards: Operational users can personalize and customize their dashboards to view metrics related to their day-to-day jobs. They can create new metrics and alerts, set thresholds, and assign tasks themselves, reducing the burden on IT.



• Absolute lowest TCO: Deploy a single, integrated operational BI product quickly, with minimal ongoing maintenance. Includes a license for unlimited users, data sources, and dashboards per appliance.

Purpose-built for scalability and performance

• Support for all sizes of operational business intelligence deployments.
• Product architecture consistently delivers information in a few seconds, regardless of query volume or number of users.
• Patent-pending streaming data flow engine caches data and analytical information in memory and streams it to large numbers of users, ensuring uniform query response times as more users are added.
• Graphically rich dashboard that users can easily customize or modify to suit changing business conditions.

A single, integrated product

With IBM Cognos Now!, you can deploy a complete operational BI solution in days. IBM Cognos Now! plugs into your existing network and includes data integration, analysis, end-user dashboards, and collaboration tools.

There are 3 versions of the IBM Cognos Now! appliance: Small/Medium Business Edition, Standard Edition, and Enterprise Edition. Each version includes:

• Operational dashboards: Continuous visibility into all of your critical business information and an easy-to-use interface for customizing metrics, setting alerts, and drilling down to detailed data.



• Application workbench: Allows system administrators to quickly and easily set up data integration, analytic models, and end-user dashboards to present current information, historical data, or aggregated views.



• Streaming server: Houses a patent-pending streaming data store for continuous data integration, as well as engines for multi-dimensional analysis, dynamic modeling, business-rules execution, and exception and alert reporting.

Additional Resources:

IBM Cognos Now! Demo

Online Demo

See how users build and edit their own dashboards quickly and easily.

'Operational BI: Getting Real-time About Performance' by Aberdeen research

Research Report

Companies are trying to improve efficiencies and performance of may day-to-day and real-time activities, such as customer interactions, finance and accounting processes, transportation/shipping, sales activity, manufacturing, inventory management Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), and marketing. This research report from Aberdeen Group provides a roadmap for the strategies and capabilities that Best-in-Class companies are employing to improve operational performance.

Operational Business Intelligence: Providing decision-makers with up-to-date visibility into operations

White Paper

Learn: Use cases for operational BI; The difference between enterprise BI and operational BI; Criteria for a successful operational BI deployment.

Manufacturing Quality Assurance with IBM Cognos Now! Monitor White Paper

White Paper

Find out how operational performance management with Cognos can improve efficiency, quality, and profitability in your organization.

Operational Business Intelligence: Assessing Market Treands and the Use of BI in Operations

White Paper

An issue paper by Ventana Research substantiates the view that operational BI is an important tool for performance management; companies that adopt it can expect to become more effective in key areas of operations.

Business Intelligence for Midsize Organizations featuring Gartner research

Analyst Report

Case studies of midsize organizations using Cognos software as a foundation for Performance Management. Featuring research from Gartner and Cognos into what midsize organizations needs are to make better business decisions with limited resources and budget.

Lowering the Total Cost of Ownership for Business Intelligence in Mid-Size Companies

Analyst Report

A Ventana Research white paper

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