Business Intelligence Extranets

Overview

Companies and organizations worldwide extend Cognos reports, scorecards, and other BI information through extranets to customers, suppliers, partners, and other stakeholders.

This seamless collaboration helps them improve performance through:

• Universally accessible information.
• Value-added e-commerce opportunities.
• Stronger relationships up and down the value chain.
• Reduced costs with user self-service and lower support costs.
• Easy deployment through a browser-based, zero-footprint user interface. No plug-ins to download or manage.

• Link data from different departments and systems for combined analysis and trend spotting. Save time and money with user self-service for internal and external consumers.
• See how the City of Albuquerque BI extranet helped them achieve 2000% ROI.

• Facilitate mass user adoption, expose hidden system functionality, and enable e-commerce while eliminating support costs.
• Toshiba America Business Solutions conducts $1 million in orders every day with its BI extranet.

• Strengthen business relationships by sharing control: extend current data on pricing, production and scheduling to customers for collaborative solutions.

• Identify and avoid excess costs, reduce inventory, and analyze bottlenecks.
• Schneider Logistics uses a BI extranet to turn supply chain information into competitive advantage.

More: Benefits and Value

Additional Resources:

IBM Cognos 8 BI Reporting

Online Demo

See real-world reporting scenarios for casual business users and professional report authors.

Cognos Performance Manager

Online Demo

See how plans, financial reports, and scorecards can help you manage performance across all data sources.

IBM Cognos 8 BI Overview

Web Seminar On-Demand

See dashboards, ad hoc queries, analysis, and other capabilities working together in a single product.

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence - Full Overview

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.

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