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Cognos Business Intelligence Solutions

Successful business intelligence solutions (involving data marts and/or data warehouses) for Human Resource, Payroll (HRIS) and Financial systems typically require highly functional and robust software tools, such as, those from Cognos, plus expert support to address the planning, design and development phases of the project.

ABS & Cognos: Partners to Success

As the world's largest and most successful vendor of enterprise business intelligence (BI) solutions, Cognos plays a mission-critical role in making their customers successful. As a partner of Cognos, ABS enables industry-leading companies to experience the benefits of a real-time reporting enterprise, that is, an infrastructure and culture that can instantaneously monitor corporate performance, respond to business changes and model future outcomes.

ABS offers focused and standalone consulting services that:

	Address the key life-cycle phases of planning, designing and developing business intelligence solutions
	Maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of developing high-value reporting systems using Cognos 8 (ReportNet).

We provide Cognos 8 and ReportNet support in the following areas:

	BI Framework: Planning and deployment services for all Cognos web application gateways and servers (PowerPlay Enterprise, Cognos 8, ReportNet, Impromptu Web reports, etc.), Framework Manager, Access Manager security and LDAP network directory integration
	Data Manager (DecisionStream) Data extraction: Consulting services that reduce extraction, transformation and load (ETL) costs and timeframes through the use of Data Manager (DecisionStream)
	Reporting: Design and development services for analytical and operational reports using: PowerPlay; Query, Report, Event and Analysis Studio; Impromptu, etc.
	Visualizer: Consulting services that use Visualizer and management dashboard technology to maximize the impact and effectiveness of your results
	Cognos Connection: Deployment services that provide thin-client/web browser access to Cognos' world-class BI tools using web portal technology
	Cognos 8 and ReportNet Training: Training program design and on-site instruction for project teams, operational staff and management. Standard and unique training needs are addressed.

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