Analysis of Cognos System (DSS) for Decision Making in Organizations

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
SYSTEMS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Analysis of Cognos system (DSS)...............................................................................................1
Development methodology used by Ricoh for implementing Cognos within the organization..4
Advantage and disadvantage of chosen development method....................................................5
Ways in which Cognos (DSS) is linked with strategic plans and corporate goals of the
organisation..................................................................................................................................5
Is Cognos (DSS) system innovative and in what way chosen DSS system innovative..............5
Was the chosen DSS obtained from elsewhere or built in organization and is the DSS to be
sold elsewhere or is adapted for other uses within the organization...........................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REREFENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Decision making is one of the most important part of an organization which can lead an
organization towards success (Virk, Chauhan and Mittal, 2018). Decision Support system (DSS)
is a computerized system that helps in providing support to organization in all kinds of decision-
making activities. Most of the DSS system are developed and designed for supporting decision
making with the help of business intelligence. Business intelligence is a kind of technology
driven process for analysing data so that it can be used by others for decision making. This
project will lay emphasis on Cognos Analytics DSS system which is a kind of business
intelligence solution that can help and organisation to accelerate their data preparation, analysis,
decision making and performance. This software is being used and implemented by Ricoh, an
UK based organization. This project will focus on Analysis of Cognos system, architectural
diagram and components of the system, methodology used by Ricoh organization for
implementation of Cognos system within the organization and ways in which Cognos relate to
the strategic plans and corporate goals of the organisation.
MAIN BODY
Analysis of Cognos system (DSS)
Description and System Analysis of Cognos
Cognos is a DSS system which is designed to address all kinds of challenges that are
faced by an enterprise in terms of scale reporting, score carding, analysis and event notification.
It is a kind of web- based reporting and analytic tool. It is used to perform data aggression and
helps in creating user friendly detailed reports (Singh, 2016). Reports created in Cognos can
contain different kinds of Graphs, Multiple Pages, Different Tabs and Interactive Prompts. These
reports can be viewed anywhere like on web servers, mobiles and at many more places. Cognos
also provides an option to the organizations for exporting reports in PDF or XML format or these
reports can be viewed in XML format. These reports can also be scheduled and run in
background at a defined and specific time period so that daily reports can be viewed in a timely
manner and no time is wasted to open and view the report daily. It also helps the organizations
by offering a cloud- based solution so that they can act on their data insight without intervention
of IT (Campbell and Roberts, 2019). Cognos Bi reporting tool allows to create reports for users
like Power users, Analysts, and Business Executives and many more. It can handle large volume
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