IBM Cognos® 8 BI delivers the complete range of BI capabilities – Reporting, Analysis, Dashboards, and Scorecards -- on a single service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Author, share, and use reports that draw on data from all enterprise sources for better business decisions. Use reports, analysis, dashboards and scorecards to monitor business performance, analyze trends and measure results. A service-oriented architecture (SOA) makes it easy to deploy and manage.

• Build reports, OLAP cubes, dashboards and scorecards using all data sources.
• Proven scalability to hundreds of thousands of users.
• Modular deployment lets you meet immediate user needs and expand or modify as needed.
• Reporting: Write and deliver any type of report, adaptable to any data source, quickly and easily.
• Analysis: Analyze and report against online analytical processing (OLAP) and dimensionally aware relational sources.
• Scorecarding: Build scorecards to align teams and tactics with strategy.
• Dashboards: Communicate complex information quickly with a range of easy-to-build dashboards.