IBM Cognos Dashboards
Dashboards are a key capability within IBM Cognos Business Intelligence. Dashboards communicate complex information quickly and translate information from your various corporate systems and data into visually rich presentations using gauges, maps, charts, and other graphical elements to show multiple results together.
The complete reporting capability of IBM Cognos 8 BI supports your need for business dashboards. You do not require a separate application to build or use dashboard reports, saving additional cost, administration time, and training.
IBM Cognos delivers the full range of dashboards—operational, tactical, strategic—to help you monitor, measure and manage corporate performance.
IBM Cognos dashboard solutions:
- Function on mobile platforms, on portals and in Microsoft® Office.
- Can be deployed as a standalone application or as a core element of an enterprise business intelligence or performance management platform.
- Offer personalised views of trusted key information.
- Deliver a high degree of visualization with graphs, gauges and charts.
The following principles serve as an effective guide to understanding how IBM Cognos BI Dashboards can help create new opportunities for business optimization:
Dashboards mean different things to different people. To some, a dashboard could mean a flashy, interactive technology that promotes high levels of user involvement. To others, it’s a static, at-a glance report or a drillable interface that makes it easy to derive additional insight. IBM Cognos 8 BI recognizes that users have different comfort levels with technologies, and their individual roles dictate how and why they need this capability.
- Turn insight into action. A dashboard should provide decision makers with information that allows them to move from insight to action quickly. IBM Cognos 8 BI enables an approach to exploring issues that can also predict potential outcomes and allow a course change before future issues arise.
- Dashboards are only effective if users trust the information. Data consistency is crucial to the success of any dashboard solution. No matter how spectacular the interface is, it means little unless it is being fed with trusted data from an enterprise-class platform. Without reliable and consistent data, the value of predictive analysis is limited at best. IBM Cognos 8 BI uses the same services and a common business model so users share a complete and consistent view of data across the organization.
- Dashboards need to be open to new contexts. Business users are challenged to find the most relevant information in the context they need to make decisions. Dashboard views should be delivered beyond the boundaries of standard BI products to reach into and interoperate with multiple applications and environments. IBM Cognos 8 BI is flexible to new contexts – and, therefore new insights - to the information at hand. New data can be added to drive more insight and address new business questions.
- Dashboards must be easy to manage. IT resources are a scarce and valuable resource in most organisations. IBM Cognos 8 BI dashboard views can be authored once and accessed anywhere, which maximizes utility to the business.
