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COGNOS’ STRATEGYPLUS 4.0 FOR COGNOS ENTERPRISE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND PEOPLESOFT ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT 8.8 Cognos Enterprise Business Intelligence (EBI) provides Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) customers with enhanced analytical, reporting, and scorecarding capabilities. Delivers end-to-end enterprise business intelligence. Integrated Cognos EBI integrates business intelligence components into a reporting, analysis, and scorecarding for PeopleSoft single, end-to-end framework serving all of the diverse informational Enterprise Performance Management. A PeopleSoft requirements of users across your organization. Using the consolida- Enterprise 8 validated software tion of a company’s various data sources to create a unified view of integration. the business, Cognos provides a consistent information environment. Cognos, Inc. Cognos, the leading provider of enterprise business intelligence (EBI), delivers software that helps companies improve business performance by enabling effective decision making at all levels of the organization. A forerunner in defining the BI software category, Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage— Corporate Performance Management (CPM)—achieved through the strategic application of BI on an enterprise scale. Cognos EBI for PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management 8.8 Integration Cognos offers a certified metadata and security integration with PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management. Through the StrategyPlus utility, PeopleSoft Enterprise metadata and security is analyzed and published to the Cognos Through the Oracle PartnerNetwork Applications environment, immediately enabling secured reporting and multidimensional analysis Integration Initiative, partners directly on your PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management deployment. with validated integrations are able to provide customers The StrategyPlus utility automatically creates a metadata model that includes a with standards based vanilla product integrations, tested technical view which contains all the technical metadata of underlying tables, and and validated by Oracle. the relationships, cardinality, and join strategies. The metadata model also includes a Customers benefit from business presentation view to deliver folders of field and table names that provide a improved risk management and smoother upgrade cap- context for business users to understand and navigate. These multiple views ability, leading to a lower eliminate the need to understand complex technical metadata and how that data is total cost of ownership and greater overall satisfaction. related, enabling the business user to focus on business requirements. 1 Through the StrategyPlus utility, PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management row- and column-level security is analyzed and published to the Cognos environment, immediately enabling secured reporting and analysis. This integration provides a seamless and automated way of integrating security between PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management, where data security is defined, and Cognos, where the users access the data. StrategyPlus 4.0 for Cognos works with Cognos ReportNet, PowerPlay, and Metrics Manager products. StrategyPlus for Cognos: • Automatically leverages PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management metadata, security, and customizations. • Provides an integrated BI solution for analysis, reporting, and scorecarding. • Provides a consistent business view across multiple business applications. Cognos EBI enables Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management customers to extend the value of their EPM investment by allowing timely reporting, analysis, and delivery of information. By combining Cognos EBI with PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management 8.8, data from multiple sources is united to provide information consumers with enhanced analytical, reporting, and scorecarding capabilities. Availability Cognos Series EBI, StrategyPlus 4.0, and integration services are available from Cognos, Inc. For more information, contact your Cognos representative or visit us on the web at www.cognos.com. Support Cognos Series EBI and StrategyPlus 4.0 are fully supported by Cognos, Inc. Contact your local Cognos representative or call our toll-free number, 800 637 7447. 2 Validation Environment Hardware: Intel Software: PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management 8.8, PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools 8.42 Partner Product: Cognos EBI Database Platform: SQL Server Operating System: Windows 2000 Hardware: Intel Software: PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management 8.8, PeopleTools 8.42 Partner Product: Cognos EBI Database Platform: Oracle 9i Operating System: UNIX Hardware: IBM Software: PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management 8.8, PeopleTools 8.42 Partner Product: Cognos EBI Database Platform: DB2 Operating System: UNIX For additional information about partnering with Oracle, please contact us at [email protected] or visit us at www.partners.oracle.com. ChoicePoint 1000 Alderman Drive Alpharetta, Georgia 30005 USA Toll-free 1 877 653 3302 www.choicepoint.com Copyright 2004, 2005 Oracle. All Rights Reserved. Published in the U.S.A. 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