IBM Cognos Express Reporter - self-service reporting and ad-hoc query:
IBM Cognos Express Reporter meets all of your reporting needs with complete self-service reporting and ad hoc query capabilities. It empowers business users to access, modify or author reports quickly and easily.
- Simple, intuitive, drag-and-drop authoring capabilities that are easily accessible from a Web browser for self-service reporting by any user, from novice to expert.
- A common metadata model that presents information to users in business terms they understand, so they can be productive right away.
- Access to all corporate data in any combination, including relational, analytical OLAP or even desktop files for comprehensive, accurate reporting.
- Broad report coverage to meet the needs of different users, including financial, production, operational, transactional, managed or ad hoc reports.
- Flexible report delivery that includes the ability to write once and immediately publish reports to the Web, PDF files, Excel spreadsheets, email messages and the IBM Cognos Express Web portal.
- Interactive dashboards that can be shared company-wide and support collaborative feedback.
- The ability to easily maintain and update a report throughout its life cycle using a common, shared interface that can be accessed by all business users.



