IBM Cognos Express Advisor - reform analysis and visualization:
Take a closer look at IBM Cognos Express Advisor which gives business users and analysts at midsize companies the ability to quickly analyze complex data and easily share business insights with high-impact visualization.
- Easy drill down and up of information for quick analysis.
- High-impact visualizations, including bar, line, area, pie, radar, bubble, scatter and range charts and graphs, plus geo maps and heat/performance maps.
- Self-service analytics through an intuitive Web-based interface that enables simple publishing to a common portal for widespread adoption by business users.
- Powerful in-memory analytics for real-time calculations and slicing and dicing of data by swapping, stacking and switching dimensions in any combination.
- Freeform analysis of any combination of data, which eliminates reliance on overstretched IT resources to model and build custom cubes and dimensions.
- Conditional formatting and traffic lights to highlight important variances at a glance.
- Data entry and spreading capabilities that enable “what-if” business scenario modeling and forward planning based on actual data.
- Write-back capabilities that link analysis and planning processes for effective business optimization.



