Marketing description

IBM Cognos Express is the first and only integrated business intelligence (BI) and planning solution purpose- built to meet the needs of midsize companies. It delivers the essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that midsize companies need at a price they can afford. Everything is included in a pre-configured solution that is easy to install, easy to use and easy to buy.
For organizations that are beginning to embark or expand on a BI and planning strategy, IBM Cognos Express includes everything needed to get started right away. It offers powerful yet easy-to-use capabilities for both novices and advanced users to encourage broad adoption throughout a company.

Key selling points

• Flexible data access
• Common web portal
• Tight security
• Powerful in-memory analytics server
• Single management console

Product features

• Flexible data access
  Provide access to relational, OLAP and local data sources in any combination through the use of centrally managed data models and metadata.
• Common web portal
  Enables users to publish reports and create compelling dashboards using any IBM Cognos Express module to deliver a single, shared view of the business.
• Tight security
  Use role-based access with a single sign-on.
• Powerful in-memory analytics server
  Enable lighting fast queries and on-the-fly calculations regardless of the size or complexity of the data set.
• Single management console
  Offer push-button installation, configuration and operation to manage the entire solution.