BI Reporting Overview

IFAS CDD and IFAS Cognos BI Reporting

• Provides real-time up to the minute transaction-based reporting needed

• Pulls data directly from IFAS tables
• IFAS Cognoos reports are located in the Financial Reports folder in IBM Cognos Connection:

CPM Cognos BI Reporting

• Provides analytical reports with the following benefits:

• More efficient (faster) data aggregation needed for typical analytical reports
• Nightly sourcing of IFAS data including transaction level detail (improvement from data warehouse)
• Marries planning data with actual and IFAS budget data for more extensive analytics and forecasting

• CPM Cognos BI Reports can be found in the Analytical Reports folder in IBM Cognos Connection:

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