Business intelligence (BI) takes the volume of data your organization collects and stores, and turns it into meaningful information that people can use in their day-to-day activities. With information in accessible reports and analysis, you can make better and timelier business decisions. You have the means to understand the "Why" behind your business performance.

Cognos delivers the most comprehensive and fully integrated set of business intelligence capabilities in the industry. The software shares common framework services such as security, metadata, and user portal. Beyond this integration and breadth of capacity, each business intelligence capability is best in its class.

With Cognos business intelligence you can:

Select the best capability in each area of business intelligence
Expand seamlessly as your needs evolve
Integrate BI with the other components of a complete enterprise-wide performance management environment.