Cognos ReportNet is delivering native incorporate SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) support, driving broader deployment of SAP software throughout the business.
Global-scale enterprise reporting at this level from SAP BW allows customers to maximise their SAP and non-SAP solutions, ensuring that Cognos ReportNet business users receive a consistent view of corporate performance information via the Web or SAP Enterprise Portal.
"One of the driving goals in the development of Cognos ReportNet was to offer superior reporting from SAP BW," says Christo Nel, analytic applications/ETL and planning product manager at Cognos SA.
"The product allows customers to leverage their entire SAP BW investment, rapidly increasing return on investment and deliver better, more consistent visibility into corporate performance. Designed to natively access SAP BW as well as a broad range of other data sources, Cognos ReportNet allows extended enterprises to standardise on a single solution for enterprise reporting, creating a single version of the truth."
The Cognos product has several SAP certifications, leverages SAP security, is integrated with SAP Enterprise Portal and R/3 and extends the value of SAP BW. SAP certifications are:
* Cognos Search 1.02 certified for SAP Enterprise Portal 5.0;
* Cognos Viewer 1.02 certified for SAP Enterprise Portal 5.0;
* Cognos Navigator 1.02 certified for SAP Enterprise Portal 5.0;
* Cognos Dispatcher Service 1.0 runs on the SAP Web Application Server - J2EE Engine 6.20;
* Cognos Driver for BAPI 1.0 certified for SAP Business Information Warehouse 2.0; and
* ReportNet is certified as Powered by NetWeaver.
All this means that users can be confident of the reliability of the software, increase their return on investment, simplify their IT efforts, have a broader BW deployment and increase user productivity.
BAPI, the Business Application Programming Interface, being integrated with the SAP warehouse, is the key certified technology, allowing all Cognos software to be completely integrated into the SAP software.
Overall, ReportNet delivers full reporting leveraging SAP BW business rules, metadata, security, and access to real-time data in SAP R/3 via RemoteCubes. The Cognos product provides true self-service enterprise reporting with streamlined, drag-and-drop report authoring and pure Web, global-scale deployment to hundreds of thousands of users.
"Cognos ReportNet offers excellent support for SAP BW through SAP-certified BAPI integration, sound MDX language capabilities, and exploitation of the client`s existing data in SAP BW and business rules. The result is a solution that provides an enterprise-wide approach for reporting on the rich information housed in both data warehouses of SAP and non-SAP solutions," says Colin White, president and founder of Intelligent Business Strategies.
Cognos ReportNet is fully integrated within Cognos Enterprise BI solution, including flexible scorecards, dashboards, powerful industry-leading OLAP analysis, event management, and data integration.
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Cognos South Africa is the local subsidiary of Canadian-based Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and performance planning software for the enterprise. Companies use Cognos solutions to improve and direct corporate performance. From planning and budgeting, to measuring and monitoring performance, to reporting and analysis, Cognos is the only company to support all of these key management activities with a complete solution that spans all of the essential components of enterprise planning, scorecarding and business intelligence.
More than 22 000 customers in over 135 countries use Cognos to better monitor, understand and drive the successful performance of their business. Cognos customers represent every industry sector including automotive, banking and insurance, energy and natural resources, government, healthcare, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals.
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