Business Intelligence for Siebel
Overview
“Ventana Research believes that organizations should build a specific
BI strategy that is independent of their application server and transaction
applications like ERP, SCM and CRM to minimize the risk of project delays
and time to providing access to critical business information across the
enterprise.”
~Mark Smith, CEO and EVP Research, Ventana Research, Oracle Re-Enters BI Market
Seeking Leadership Position, April 2006
Combining IBM Cognos 8 BI with Siebel can:
- Lower your total cost of ownership.
- Increase your return on investment.
- Enable a wider distribution of valuable information from Siebel and non-Siebel data.
NEW! IBM Cognos 8 Report Pack for Siebel CRM
Extend the value of your current enterprise investments by providing business users with the ability to combine in one report or dashboard, historic data from the data warehouse with current data in Siebel CRM without additional coding. Combining IBM Cognos 8 BI and IBM Cognos 8 Report Packs allows you to:
- Achieve the most complete view of enterprise performance while eliminating costs and effort required for separate operational reporting projects.
- Deliver pre-defined content for more than 60 commonly used reports to provide immediate access to Siebel data within a business context.
- The IBM Cognos Data Adapter provides one-click connectivity into Siebel, delivering secure and trusted pathways to build additional reports. The IBM Cognos 8 Report Packs and IBM Cognos Data Adapter extend underlying functionality provided by Composite Software.
Combining IBM Cognos 8 Report Packs and IBM Cognos 8 BI helps your organization create a performance management platform that is:
Simple
All BI capabilities in IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence are built on a single
Web services architecture. You can easily integrate BI capabilities with
Seibel and your other existing technology assets.
- Deploy one product on a single, standards-based architecture for all of your business intelligence needs.
- Add capabilities or modify them at any time to meet changing business conditions and user needs.
- Provide everyone across your organization with a single, trusted source for information.
- Eliminate the management and maintenance of duplicate services such as security.
- Centralized metadata model lets you apply consistent business rules, calculations, and dimensions to your data.
Complete
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence provides Siebel users with the full range of
BI capabilities necessary to improve decision-making.
- Serve all users with information and BI capabilities that match their needs. Connect disparate data systems to deliver a common business view of your data.
- Apply consistent business rules, dimensions, and calculations to data for a complete, consistent view of any business issue.
Proven
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is built on a proven architecture. Use the complete
capabilities of IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence against your Siebel data:
- Reporting and Interactive Dashboards
- Active Scorecarding
- Business Event Management
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