IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

Tactical dashboards

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	Build better dashboards

Tactical dashboards help managers and analysts track and analyze departmental activities, processes and projects.

They display at-a-glance results in a business intelligence portal or professionally authored report. Users can drill down or through the data using multidimensional (OLAP) analysis and advanced reporting to pinpoint the causes of trends or issues.

Benefits of tactical dashboards

• Daily, monthly, and quarterly performance updates.
• Analysis of departmental activities and performance.
• One-click to related performance management capabilities (forecasts, budgets, etc.).
• Support for IBM Cognos 8 Go! Mobile and IBM Cognos 8 Go! Office.
• Unite data from different core areas such as sales, marketing, finance, HR, logistics, and distribution so you can see a complete, multi-department picture.
• High-impact visuals let users bring data to life in virtually any presentation type with interactivity, multiple 2D and 3D chart types, color-coded drillable maps, animated reports, and more.

The complete range of dashboards

Cognos, an IBM company, provides the complete range of dashboards (operational, tactical, strategic) to support the information and decision-making needs of your entire user base. They can be deployed as a standalone application or as a core element of an enterprise BI or performance management platform.

Additional Resources:

Visual Communication: Core Design Principles for Displaying Quantitative Information

White Paper

Learn to build reports that communicate more clearly, based on the latest research into perception and understanding. Part 1 of a 3-part series by Stephen Few

Visual Pattern Recognition: Meaningful Patterns in Quantitative Business Information

White Paper

Bar chart or line graph? This paper examines the data patterns and relationships common in most business reports and provides practical guidelines for communicating these relationships effectively using points, lines, and bars. Part 2 of a 3-part series by Stephen Few.

Data Visualization: Past, Present, and future

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Spanning more than 2,000 years of recorded human history, this paper examines the birth and evolution of data visualization, from early Egyptian tables used to organize astronomical information through to bar charts, treemaps, and geo-spatial visualization tools (such as Google Earth). Part 3 of a 3-part series by Stephen Few

Full Demo: IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

Online Demo

Complete capabilities in one product, on a single architecture. See key features for both business and IT users, including Framework Manager, the Adminstration Console, and integration with Microsoft Excel.

Picturing Performance Dashboards and Scorecards with Cognos

White Paper

This white paper outlines the three types of dashboards (operational, tactical, strategic) as described by TDWI's Wayne Eckerson and illustrates how to build them using IBM Cognos Now! and IBM Cognos 8 BI. Explains the role of dashboarding in a performance management deployment. Illustrations.

Meaningful design for more effective dashboards article

Article

Performance Perspectives- Aug 2007

BIScorecard - Suite Integration Analyst Report

Analyst Report

Cobbled together products or one BI platform: how deep does suite integration really go?

IBM Cognos Now!

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Discover real-time operational dashboards with IBM Cognos Now!

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