Cognos BI - What is It?

Cognos BI is a reporting portal that replaces ART/Crystal Reports and leverages a new and improved data warehouse.  It provides the following:

• Operational and 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