Your SpotOn the IBM Cognos Edge

We conducted a webinar yesterday, all about authoring map-enabled reports in IBM Cognos BI. This was the third installment in our weekly GBI-1 webinar series and one on which we have received a lot of positive feedback from several who attended.

As I watched the webinar recording we posted on our web site, and in fact during the event itself, I noted something that I believe makes SpotOn's offering pretty unique among geospatial BI vendors.

That something is: it took me about the same amount of time to show how to use the powerful features of the session's map-enabled report as it did to create it.

In less than 15 minutes, I took a basic BI report, and enhanced it with a map that provided a rich visualization of (in this particular case) key insurance measures like sales revenue, claims, and TIV (Total Insured Value). Think about that: less than 15 minutes to build a report that brings entire new avenues of analysis to the fingertips of business analysts, users, managers, and executives.

It's what I often refer to as the "secret sauce" of SpotOn Vantage Maps. Not only can we show you GBI reports and the value they deliver, but we can also show you the absolutely minimal effort required to build them.

More sauce, anyone?

 - dk