There are seven components to the Cognos 8 Business intelligence suite:-

– Reporting
– Analysis
– Scorecarding
– Dashboards
– Business event management
– Data integration
– Cognos 8 Go!

Cognos Reporting

Cognos Reporting gives you access to a complete list of selfserve
report types, is adaptable to any data source, and
operates from a single metadata layer for a variety of
benefits such as multilingual reporting.

Cognos Analysis

Cognos Analysis enables the guided exploration and analysis of
information that pertains to all dimensions of your business-
regardless of where the data is stored. Analyze and
report against online analytical processing (OLAP) and
dimensionally aware relational sources.

Cognos Scorecarding

Scorecarding helps you align your teams and tactics
with strategy; communicate goals consistently, and monitor
performance against targets.

Cognos Dashboards

Business dashboards communicate complex information
quickly. They translate information from your various
corporate systems and data into visually rich presentations
using gauges, maps, charts, and other graphical
elements to show multiple results together.

Cognos Business Event Management

Cognos Business event management tracks significant events
that need attention. It monitors these events and uses
decision-process and business-process automation to
compress the time to action and resolution.

Cognos Data Integration

Cognos data integration is an enterprise-wide ETL solution
designed for high performance business intelligence.
It optimizes data merging, extraction, transformation,
and dimensional management to deliver data warehouses
ready for business reporting and analysis.

In adddition, Cognos 8 Business Intelligence allows users complete flexibility over the configuration of the front-end portal. This ensures users can get immediate access to the information they need.