Businesses have become a lot more sophisticated and as a result are much more demanding for information. Businesses are also accumulating a wealth of information which needs to be consumed by employees at all levels across the organization.

Cognos 8 BI is the only solution that provides the complete range of BI capabilities in a single product, on a single Service Oriented Architecture. It is the only solution to deliver a simplified, zero-footprint interface for all users, authors, and administrators. Easy to integrate, deploy and use, Cognos 8 BI delivers a simplified BI environment that drives high user adoption, and enables better decision - making. It serves as an enterprise-scale technology foundation for performance management - now and in the future.

Reporting is a key capability within Cognos 8 BI, a single product that provides complete BI capabilities on a proven architecture.

Cognos 8 BI will allow users to consume information in a number of ways:

• Burst personalized reports to multiple locations and in multiple formats.
• Multiple export formats: Excel, PDF, XML, HTML, and CSV
• Flexible distribution methods: centralized access, email, application integration, MS Office.

Cognos 8 provides many advanced capabilities including:

• One authoring environment for creating all report types, including advanced multilevel dashboards.
• Federated queries -- one query drawing on multivendor data sources - even within a single reporting object.
• Drag-and-drop authoring incorporates data, text, charts, graphs, and images.
• Edit reports with prompts and toolbar commands.
• Create complex, multi-page layouts using different data sources without programming or workarounds.

Sky Solutions has integrated its own innovations and methodology within the Cognos 8 platform to deliver some very unique solutions such as Navigational & Drillable Dashboards. Contact us to see how this solution can assist you in your business.