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Call it Geospatial Business Intelligence (GBI), Location Intelligence, Spatial-Awareness, or simply Shape Queries.  Whatever the name, geography matters greatly to your organization.  So why is the spatial dimension most often overlooked in business reporting and treated as a scarce resource hidden away in the GIS department "closet"?

Maps in Your IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

SpotOn Vantage delivers the Complete Business Picture

SpotOn Vantage Maps extends the world leading enterprise Business Intelligence solution from IBM Cognos by seamlessly integrating it with the geospatial analytic capabilities from Esri, the world leader in GIS solutions. 

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SpotOn Vantage Maps delivers out-of-the-box capabilities that allow IBM Cognos report authors to instantly enhance their dashboards and reports with maps from Esri, the recognized leader in enterprise GIS. Information is seamlessly synchronized in a spatial context, with high impact and easy to understand visualizations.

Business data from an in-place IBM Cognos BI solution can easily be presented geographically, using Esri maps together with tabular and chart formats, with no need for custom development. Users navigate and interact with Esri maps and IBM Cognos report objects without leaving their current viewpoint. A single unified view broadcasts information between the map layers/points and the report objects: click on a map region or point, or select a group of points, and instantly trigger an update in the lists, charts, and crosstabs displayed, based on the map region or points selected.

Does "Where" Matter to Your Organization?

Including Esri spatial analytics in your IBM Cognos BI is a multi-faceted proposition. There are several ways that geography can be integrated into your IBM Cognos Business Intelligence. Fortunately SpotOn Vantage Maps covers them all:

1. Create Esri GIS map layers with IBM Cognos business data.
2. Include interactive map services and layers in IBM Cognos reports.
3. Create compelling interactions between map elements and native IBM Cognos report objects (charts, lists, etc).
4. Report against your existing Esri server mapping applications. If you are not currently using Esri for mapping, use SpotOn's cloud-based map services.

Watch these capabilities in action to see what's missing in your business.

Integrating Business Intelligence and GIS

SpotOn Vantage Maps powers your GBI solution by bringing together the best of the information superpowers: IBM Cognos Business Intelligence and Esri ArcGIS.

IBM Cognos BI	Esri ArcGIS
Access to business data - anywhere in the organization Business Intelligence metadata: user friendly terminology and business functionality Business Intelligence enterprise security model Information delivery: push and pull, scheduling, email Web-based architecture: scale and deployability	Geographic presentation of data High impact visualizations User interactivity Geo-processing data queries "Where" - the missing Business Intelligence dimension

IBM Cognos-Esri Integration: Enabled by the BI Report Author

SpotOn Vantage Maps is specifically designed to enable you to develop integrated content directly within your IBM Cognos BI environment.  With ease, your BI authors will be able to take advantage of: 

• Point and click "mash-up" of map layers for integration into BI reports
• Point and click definition of report-map interactions
• Multiple Maps on a single Report
• Powerful anything-to-anything interaction

Contact us today to enable Geographic Business Intelligence within your organization.

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