Business Intelligence (BI) Standardization

What is driving the move to standards?

• Business demand (CFO lead) to reduce and rationalize number of vendors with aim to reduce costs
• Influencers and Analysts
• Gartner Reporting Convergence conversation
• Key Trends - Gartner Symposium October 2006
  1. Outsourcing/off shoring a hot political issue
  2. Standardization of core infrastructure
  3. Rigorous portfolio management (pruning/trimming of vendors/technologies)
  4. IT regaining and retaining control of strategic planning and architecture
  5. Vendor Consolidation
  6. BO/Crystal
  7. Hyperion/Brio

Why do companies look to standardize?
There are four primary reasons that companies will look to standardize:

1. Simplify
2. Become more agile and responsive
3. Lay a foundation for driving performance
4. Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Why Cognos is the best choice for Reporting/BI standardization?

• Global presence, financial stability and market leadership
• Only vendor with product complete enough to be your standard
  1. Production Reporting - "running the business reports"
  2. Managed Reporting - "managing the business reports"
  3. Ad-hoc Reporting - "understanding the business reports"
• A compelling vision of the future and the demonstrated ability to make vision a reality
• Enterprise Customer Program

Why ReportNet should be the Reporting Standard?

• Your TCO will be low because ReportNet Leverages your existing infrastructure and skills
• You will get results faster than with traditional reporting environments because ReportNet was designed for productivity.
• You will be more agile and responsive to the business because ReportNet has a pure web, services-oriented architecture (SOA)
• ReportNet's "write once - deploy globally" architecture will give you the simplest and most cost effective way to deploy reporting across your organization in the language of your users.
• You will be able to deliver reports that look and feel like a web page but that are data driven like a report.
• You will be able to use our clear and published roadmap to plan future deployments.