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The industry's first Operational BI appliance
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IBM Cognos Now! delivers highly visual, interactive, and self-service dashboards, data integration, analysis, and reports, all prepackaged in a hardware appliance. |
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Continuous monitoring for business operations, operational KPIs and metrics:
Empowers line-of-business users to proactively and rapidly respond to ever-changing business conditions with 64 bit in-memory streaming technology that ensures operational metrics are always up-to-date.
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Autonomy for line-of-business user:
Minimize reliance on IT with self-service, interactive dashboards that line-of-business users can customize for their day-to-day jobs and specific operational KPIs and metrics.
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Cost-effective, low risk, and rapid deployment:
Provide unlimited access to dashboards and data sources to all line-of-business users at a lower TCO, with no role-based pricing. Minimize IT effort and resources with a pre-configured hardware appliance from a single vendor that is easy to deploy, manage and maintain.
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Closed-loop business performance optimization:
Identify and customize operational KPIs and metrics. Allow visibility into operations performance at transactional or KPI level, understand and perform root-cause analysis, and drive insight to corrective action.
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Streaming dataflow engine: Monitors business events and integrates those events with contextual data from data warehouses or operational data stores in real-time. Provides a complete, higher value view of critical operational metrics.
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Temporal processing: Enables the business user to associate time with events, to identify trends over time and understand events in the larger business context, and distinguish between momentary spikes and real trends.
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Operational dashboards: Provide real-time visibility into business operations, KPIs, and KRIs, personalized by individual users, allowing rapid response to changing market conditions. Alerts can be used to make time-sensitive decisions, or to initiate actions such as generating workflows.
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Rich analytics: Provides detailed metrics and contextual data that help the business user process and act on the alerts.
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Seamless integration: Integrates easily with the IBM Cognos 8 BI platform and with operational applications and legacy systems that already exist in your environment via standard interfaces.
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A single, integrated continuous monitoring solution for operational BI: Deploy an operational BI solution in days. IBM Cognos Now! plugs into your existing network and includes data integration, analysis, end-user dashboards, and collaboration tools.
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There are three types of appliances available: hardware, software, and VM. Each appliance type is delivered in three appliance sizes – 3500, 5500 and 7500 versions. Each appliance type includes:
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Operational dashboards: Continuous visibility into all of your critical business information and an easy-to-use interface for customizing metrics, setting alerts, and drilling down to detailed data.
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Application workbench: Allows system administrators to quickly and easily set up data integration, analytic models, and end-user dashboards to present current information, historical data, or aggregated views.
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Streaming and analytical server: Houses a patent-pending streaming data store for continuous data integration, as well as engines for multidimensional analysis, dynamic modeling, business rules execution and exception and alert reporting.
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