Business Intelligence for Oracle
Overview
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence integrates with your Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Siebel databases, gateways, and applications. Use it to deliver powerful reports, analysis, scorecards, and financial plans to people throughout your organization.
Key integration points
- Native (SQLNET), ODBC, and JDBC connectivity.
- Centralized metadata environment imports Oracle metadata from Oracle Designer.
- Support for Real Application Clustering for efficient databases and fail-over protection.
- Support for industry-standard SQL99 functions.
- Leverage Oracle security with no need for redundancies or duplications.
- Cognos Performance Applications contain pre-built connections to the Oracle e-Business Suite.
Advantages for developers
- Support for Oracle Application Server 10g.
- Use Oracle-specific functions and calculations in the authoring environment.
- Use Oracle OLAP when exposed as a view and leverage Oracle dimensionality for ad hoc query.
- Publish reports through Oracle portlets.
- Software development kit and fully documented API.
- API exposed as WSDL for customization using the
Oracle J-Developer Suite.
Certified by Oracle
Cognos is a Certified Partner in Oracle's Partner Network (OPN) and a participant in the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG).
Leverage other data sources
Unlike most ERP vendors, Cognos lets you access, analyze, and report on any kind of data, regardless of location or format.
You can consolidate data from different sources across your organization using data integration to create a unified view of your performance. These sources can include:
- ERP data: PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle
- Other data warehouses or databases: IBM, Microsoft, Sybase, Teradata
- Legacy data, spreadsheets, operational data
- Platforms: UNIX, Windows, LINUX
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