Advantages of Cognos 10.2.2

There are various advantages to integrating with Cognos 10.2.2 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.