Business Intelligence Overview
Business Intelligence Visualisations
Authoring Tools Part of Analytics
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Contents Authoring Tools
User tools Data tools Data Modules and Datasets Data Models and AI
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Authoring Tools Create and deliver the most compelling datadriven stories about your business with Pronto Xi’s out-of-thebox tools and IBM’s leading data analysis platform, IBM Cognos Analytics IBM™ Cognos™ Analytics* has multiple components, all playing a specialised role to help you manage and get the most out of your data. When IBM Cognos Analytics is combined with Business Intelligence, users have the ultimate power to get the most out of their data. With our BI licences, your team can run reports and view dashboards with BI essentials, or create reports and dashboards through BI Designer. Also manage all your server, user and schedule administration tasks with BI administer. Advance your analytics with our BI Unlimited licence and garner unparalleled insights into every aspect of your business by reporting on all your data together regardless of its source alongside your Pronto Xi data in IBM Cognos Analytics.
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User tools BI’s dashboarding capabilities make it easy to explore your data. Create visualisations simply by dragging fields onto the canvas and letting Cognos Artificial Intelligence (AI) automatically determine the best way to display that information. Similarly, map creation is as easy as dropping data onto the authoring canvas. With in-built Global Map Intelligence, BI allows you to report at a global level or even at an Australian postcode level. The ability to zoom right down to the street level helps you go from eagle’s eye view to a more localised view on your business data – in one screen. A simple interface makes deploying insightful dashboards to your organisation faster than ever, while Cognos Functions gives you the ability to craft your own custom calculations. Through BI Administration, you can set reporting date ranges, user roles, and even security policies for Mobile BI users such as time expiry on cached mobile report content.
Data tools Enrich your Pronto Xi business transactions data by uploading your own information. Using IBM Cognos Analytics datasets, external data – such as GPS, weather and foot traffic – can be dragged and dropped into your reports as easily as your Pronto Xi data, providing you with a deeper understanding of trends and analyses.
*IBM and Cognos are trade marks of International Business Machines Corporation, and are registered in many jurisdictions
Data Modules and Datasets
Data Models and AI
A dataset is a smaller subset of your entire business data that can be used in a dashboard or report. Using a dataset as a source makes it significantly easier to retrieve data on the dashboard. By requiring fewer queries, datasets also reduce the burden on your business database. When datasets are combined with other sources such as existing packages and uploaded data, they are grouped into data modules to be used on dashboards or reports.
BI’s enhanced modelling components enable you to aggregate multiple sources of data, ranging from Excel spreadsheets, relational databases, text files and more. These fused models can then become the source, allowing you to create meaningful visualisations in the form of reports, dashboards and stories.
Upgrade your business intelligence capabilities by creating and modelling new data packages with our Data Module and Data Explorer licenses. With this toolset, you can create repeatable and consistent data modules to publish to your users, giving them everything they require. Data Explorer harnesses the depth of the IBM Watson AI engine to derive forecasts and key data drivers to rapidly uncover hidden insights.
Gain meaningful insights from data you can trust with AI-powered automation and insights in IBM Cognos Analytics. With its natural language AI assistant, just describe the question you need the answer to or a hypothesis you want to test and let the AI build stunning visualising providing you the needed insights.
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