There are various advantages to integrating with Cognos
10.1.1 for generating reports. Some of these are:
- Lower costs—reduces maintenance due to complete report coverage
and a zero-footprint environment.
- Faster results—shortens reporting time due to seamless integration
and adaptive authoring.
- Improved decision making—reports and dashboards present data in
easily-understood formats.
- Adaptive authoring automatically adjusts report layout when objects
are added, moved, or removed.
- Ability to work with data using familiar business terms.
- Ability to use a variety of charts—crosstabs, bar or 3D bar, pie
or doughnut, line, gauge, funnel, scatter, dot density, waterfall,
and so forth.
- Ability to create complex, multi-page layouts using different
data sources.
- High performance data access across all sources.
- Complete connectivity regardless of environment.
- Open architecture that leverages XML, SOAP, and WSDL.
- Multiple
export formats—Excel, Portable Document Format (PDF), Extensible Markup
Language (XML), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and Comma Separated
Value (CSV).
- Multilingual capabilities automatically deliver reports in the
users' working language.
- Ability to integrate seamlessly with the Selling and Fulfillment
Foundation, without the user having to log in to the application again.