Why we should go for cognos? when there are so many other
BI(Reporting) tolls in front of us?

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Why we should go for cognos? when there are so many other BI(Reporting) tolls in front of us?..

Answer / scaant

Because no other reporting tool have multiple database
access.i.e either homogenious or hetrogenious

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Why we should go for cognos? when there are so many other BI(Reporting) tolls in front of us?..

Answer / sanket

It is a fully web based application: which means that
reports can be created from any client system, saved in the
server and can be accessed by anyone.

Unlike BO, cognos can be opened from anywhere without any
desktop installation.

Hope that suffices....

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Why we should go for cognos? when there are so many other BI(Reporting) tolls in front of us?..

Answer / satya/gunu

=> IBM General Manager for Business Analytics and former Cognos CEO Rob Ashe announced IBM Cognos 10.
-> A significant upgrade to IBM Cognos 8 BI,
this new software brings together social collaboration
and analytics for business users to gain real-time intelligence in a single, user-friendly interface — online
or through mobile devices such as iPad, iPhone and
BlackBerry devices.

=> Cognos is the only one reporting tool(BI) where we can access single model to multiple databases.(As of Now)

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Why we should go for cognos? when there are so many other BI(Reporting) tolls in front of us?..

Answer / samba

because cognos reporting tool is frindly user.here onley
drg and drop tables.

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