The Right Architecture for Business Intelligence - Sponsored Whitepaper

The IBM Cognos® 8 platform meets all the criteria needed to effectively enable enterprise-scale business intelligence: It considers the diverse information needs of all users; it keeps maintenance costs down, and it leverages existing assets without duplicating existing infrastructure. Backed by an industry leader and featuring an open data strategy, the IBM Cognos 8 platform provides an ideal foundation to easily deploy, use, and integrate a BI solution.

Business Intelligence (BI) software leverages investments in data and systems to provide easy-to-use information that improves decision-making throughout an organization. The Fortune 1000 and many other organizations use BI as part of a growing move toward integrating organizational processes for higher performance.