Cognos Powerplay

Cognos PowerPlay delivers the world's leading Web-based online analytical processing (OLAP) capabilities. Users can quickly analyse the dimensions and indicators on which success are measured in any business framework - for example, sales by week. month, or quarter, across any combination of region or sales channel.

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Cognos PowerPlay delivers a complete Corporate Performance Management (CPM) reporting and analysis environment for it's Users. PowerPlay gives decision-makers and knowledge workers inside and outside of the organisation access to critical data to improve business performance, and the ability to explore and analyse data from any angle, in any combination-to quickly identify factors that are not readily found using any other method of analysis. You can report and share these results by publishing them to Cognos Upfront, the Management Information portal.

Cognos PowerPlay enables anyone to perform their own multidimensional analysis and create reports on OLAP (Online analytical processing) data in a Web, Windows, or Excel environment. Decision-makers at any level can conduct the analysis they need to make critical decisions. Then, they can equip their e-Business colleagues and partners with reports based on this analysis useful insights by publishing them through the Cognos Upfront portal. With a single mouse click, report consumers can convert these results from PDF format to a dynamic PowerPlay Web report that allows them to explore and analyse the underlying OLAP data and then share their own findings with others.

Effortless Data Exploration

  • Explore Data The Way You Think - Analyze what's driving your business with data organised under logical headings such as fiscal periods, sales regions and product groups - whatever makes the most sense in your business environment.
  • Uncover All The Facts - Explore multidimensional information by simply pointing, dragging and clicking. Drill down through increasing levels of detail and then slice and dice to view different dimensions such as sales per region, by product. View and analyse data relationships graphically and change displays easily.
  • Drill Through To Detail - Drill through from one level of detail to another. From summary and up-to-the second transaction level detail or from one Powercube to another until you find the information you are looking for.

Easy, Managed Report Creation

  • Create Dynamic Reports - turn analyses into accurate, high impact BPM reports at the touch of a button. Create KPI (Key Performance Indicator) and scorecard reports that help measure, monitor and improve the business.
  • Enterprise-Wide Access and Beyond - Provide user access to reports in PDF format. Users can convert PDF's to dynamic reports for further exploration and analysis: slicing and dicing, drilling down, sorting, filtering and so on.
  • Serve Many User Needs With One Report - The combination of user filtering and security enables narrowcast reports where a single report can service the varied needs of many different users.

Broad Deployment

Web-Based Deployment - All classes of users can access, view, and print BPM reports via the Web. After further analysis, they can publish their results back to the Cognos Portal to share their findings.

  • Server-only, zero-footprint client, pure HTML solution ensures low cost deployment for the e-Business.
  • Powerful scalable multi-server approach on both NT and/or UNIX that enables thousands of users to access enterprise reports and cubes.
  • Universal access to all leading OLAP servers including PowerPlay PowerCubes, Microsoft OLAP Server, Hyperion Essbase, SAP BW and IBM DB2 for OLAP.
  • From CD to user access in under two hours if you already have a cube-it's virtually instant deployment! · Minimal user training required.
  • · Standard web user interface features.
  • Multilingual server allows users to choose which language to use when viewing and analysing corporate data. This is a huge cost savings for enterprise deployment in global companies.

Value of BPM/OLAP Reports Across Enterprise

  • Powerful and understandable access to BPM/OLAP for everyone in the enterprise.
  • Supports all the features (slice and dice, drill down, nested crosstabs, calculations, hide/show rows and columns and graphs, filters and sorting) to view, explore, report and publish on OLAP data in an easy-to-learn browser interface.
  • Uses HTML/JavaScript so universal access to any user with a 3.0+ version of Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer.
  • Create and publish BPM reports as PDF documents to the Cognos Upfront portal, which allows users to reach critical corporate data across the Web in an easy to access format.
  • Users can convert any PDF format report into a dynamic reports that allows further exploration, analysis and publishing back to Upfront of the results.

Enterprise Strength Data Handling

  • Handle large data volumes of up to 50 million rows and 500,000 categories.
  • Fastest cube building, Highly compressed cubes.
  • Consolidation from multiple data sources into a single data source.
  • Full administrative control over user access and security.

For more information on how Infocube can help you successfully implement and utilise a Cognos PowerPlay Solution, please give us a call on 020 7953 0410, or email us.