SMS BI Presentations

SMS BI Presentations

SMS provides sophisticated commentary, navigation, report suite and presentation capabilities that extend the value of your IBM Cognos BI investment



Your presentation in web (HTML), PDF or PowerPoint formats, including both IBM Cognos and non-Cognos content

The problem: Many organisations spend large amounts of time and money collating and creating reporting suites such as periodic management reports and ad hoc presentations. This is often a manual and time-consuming process that often does not provide the ability for business users to contribute or tailor content, add relevant commentary or annotations. Reports and report content often needs to be replicated in a separate environment like Excel and PowerPoint, increasing delays, inconsistency and inaccuracy.

The solution: SMS BI Presentation Services is a suite of innovative tools that extend the functionality and useability of your core IBM Cognos report content.

SMS BI Presentation Services empowers business users to:
 

• Intuitively navigate report content
• Maintain commentary and annotation in context
• Rapidly create and manage personal report suites and presentations in multiple formats
• Provide distribution capabilities for report suites, presentations and report content to a wider audience
  
   

• Commentary embedded within reports in context and up to seven different report prompt values
• Rich text commentary editor
• Full workflow of commentary and annotation, including capture, review, approval, publication and display
• Comprehensive audit of commentary additions, edits and deletions
• Integration with SMS Content Navigator

• Intuitive, sophisticated navigation and display of existing pre-run and live IBM Cognos report content with Windows Explorer look-and-feel
• Display and navigate other Non IBM Cognos web content 
• Content can be ordered and navigated by time periods, providing ease of retrieving historical content
• Content can be ordered and navigated through multiple levels of key data hierarchies such as product or customer
• Maintained IBM Cognos 8 report functionality such as drill-through and slice-and-dice
• Preserved underlying report and data security

• Engines and utilities for the creation and collation of content to be consumed by SMS BI Presentation Services
• Automated Report Creator (ARC)
• Event-driven creation of pre-run content over multiple levels of key reporting hierarchies, providing rapid response, consistency of user views and efficient use of underlying system resources
• Embeds SMS Report Commentary content
   

• Easy-to-use interface for creating ad hoc report suites such as one-off presentations
• Configurable header pages, titles, page numbers for report suites
• Ability to include any content displayed in SMS Content 
• Report suites integrated with and navigated through SMS Content Navigator

• All the features of Ad-hoc Report Suite Creator plus:
• Ability to generate event-driven report suites based on a particular time period, e.g. for weekly or monthly meeting
• Ease of navigation of historical report suites, e.g. ''My Management presentation from last April with embedded commentary in context''

• Report suites can be delivered and distributed in web (HTML), PDF or PowerPoint formats
• Distribution by email, or published back to file systems or BI portals, for wider user usage