Cognos Business Intelligence Solutions
Business Intelligence is all about analyzing volumes of data and presenting the results in a form that is user friendly, understandable, and allows for informed decision making.
InfoEnhance provides a full set of services from business analysis, design, development to deployment of the BI solutions. Each client situation is unique and based on the specific requirements, the solution may include the following technical components:
- Datawarehouse or Data marts - these are the central repositories of data, ensuring one version of truth
- ETL processes to Extract, Transform and Load data from various source systems to a central datawarehouse or datamart
- Relational or Dimensional Metadata models - the models simplify data structures, translate technical data fields into business language and enable efficient reporting
- User friendly Reports, presenting data in list, crosstab, visual or other forms
- Analytical OLAP Cubes - the cubes allow users to interactively analyze data, drill-down, drill-across, slice and dice to get a full picture and to better understand data trends, relationships and root causes for certain numbers
- Executive Scorecards and Dashboards - providing high level summaries of most important business statistics
InfoEnhance consultants build the Business Intelligence solutions using the following IBM Cognos tools:
Report Studio
- building professional, easy to use operational and management reportsAnalysis Studio
- building dimensional views, allowing to analyze and discover relationships and root causes between various business actions or eventsMetric Studio
- building scorecardsEvent Studio
- building automated alerts, responding to critical business eventsFramework Manager
- building metadata models to allow efficient and user friendly reportingTransformer
- building Cognos OLAP cubesData Manager
- building ETL processes to populate datamarts and datawareouses