IBM Cognos for SAP Solutions
Many organisations running SAP applications encounter delays when trying to leverage data to improve decision making and business performance. Customer surveys have shown that some customers are waiting anything from six weeks to 3 months between asking the question and an answer being available.
Using IBM Cognos Business Intelligence in conjunction with your SAP applications provides your business with the tools to empower the users, not just IT professionals, with the ability to access information on a timely way with a simple click of the mouse.
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence provides the platform, combining historical and operational data to provide a complete view of business performance. Using IBM Cognos BI in conjunction with SAP R/3 software, SAP Netweaver Business Warehouse and SAP NetWeaver technology platform can lower the total cost of ownership through true business self service.
Why IBM Cognos 10?
Cognos Business Intelligence provides all enterprise users with the full range of BI capabilities necessary to improving decision making through a unified BI workspace, giving deep comparative analytics, scorecarding , strategy management and built in collaboration.
- Enterprise wide BI capability to match user need, from regular distrubuted reports for the BI consumer to deep analysis.
- The ability for professional authors to author detailed and even complex reports and publish these to other users for their consumption.
- Application of consitent business rules, demensions and calculations to data through a single semantic layer providing complete and consitent viewsd of the business data.
- Ability to query, report and analyse against OLAP or relational data.
IBM/SAP Partnership Highlights
- More than 30 Years of strategic and mutually important partnering
- Cognos was one of the first BI vendors to achieve "Powered by SAP NetWeaver" certification
- Patented integration and MDX optimisation for use with the SAP Business Warehouse
- Delivering integrated performance management solutions for SAP technologies since 1997
- Since 2003, Cognos has supported both "Powered by SAP NewtWeaver" and SAP NetWeaver certifications
- More than 300 IBM resources in SAP development centres
