Cognos PowerPlay®
Overview
Cognos PowerPlay, the world's best-selling OLAP software, lets
users analyze large volumes of data with sub-second response times.
Cognos PowerPlay improves your performance
- Gives the right answer, right away -fast analysis lets companies
quickly get to the "why" behind an event or action, so they
can take effective steps to address it.
- Makes complex data clear and decipherable -the ability to
analyze critical corporate data from any angle, in any combination
makes it easy for all employees to understand.
- Reduces the burden on IT -user self-service and a no-maintenance
Web client frees up IT to pursue more strategic priorities.
- Reduces the burden on your network -the massively scalable,
customer-proven architecture maximizes network resources.
Competitive differentiators
- Sophisticated time trending and projection lets users analyze
what has changed over previous years, quarters, months, and
other critical measures. No other vendor provides as sophisticated
a time trending and projection capability as Cognos.
- PowerPlay is faster to implement due to its superior modeling
environment, ability to leverage existing platforms / data sources,
and easy installation and configuration.
- PowerPlay is the fastest analysis tool to deploy and manage
due to its scalability, integration, processing efficiency,
and zero-footprint framework.
- PowerPlay is data agnostic so it can read all widely-used
OLAP data sources.
- Competing solutions cannot scale cubes as large as ours, and
may require database design and additional programming to achieve
adequate performance.
- The Windows, Web, and Excel clients mean that users can work
within a familiar environment-maximizing ROI and decreasing
training costs.
- Integrated with Cognos reporting, scorecards, planning, and
ETL software-so your business intelligence capabilities can
grow with your needs.
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